Did you ever stop to think that you CAN have the life you dream of?
Yes! But first you must make adjustments to your attitude.
Below, I quote a few passages from the excellent book PUSH: Persevere Until Success Happens Through Prayer by Cindy Trimm.
Please take these truths to heart and let them change your life for the better!
Attitude controls the gate of creativity in your mind, the thoughts that you allow your mind to entertain, and the ideas that are cultivated resulting in products and services you can eventually convert into wealth. Attitude can make you happy or sad, loving or hateful, cheerful or remorseful, attractive or repulsive. Your attitude controls your very capacity and predisposition for success and prosperity.
Very few people claim full and total responsibility for the state of their lives, but instead give their personal powers and creative juices away by blaming the problems they face in life on the shortcomings of others, the state of the economy, their spouse, their boss, their domestic conditions, and any combination of a million other reasons they can conjure up in their minds. Or worse, the imagined shortcomings, they are convinced, exist in themselves. Do not allow yourself to be seduced into this destiny-altering state. Harness your personal power and God-given ability to engineer your own destiny by consciously controlling your attitude.
When you fully consider the impact your attitude has on your thoughts, perceptions, and actions, and the moment you become mindful of the awesome power that God has placed within you, you won’t want to allow negative attitudes to sabotage your happiness, health, and success any longer. You will begin to nurture and groom your attitude and put it to positive use. It is a tool, a weapon, a treasure, and a contagion. Your attitude is more contagious than the most prolific disease ever faced by humankind. Its influence affects and impacts everything and everyone you come into contact with. It is a blessing you can share in any situation.
Your attitude determines the highs and lows of your life. It not only increases or decreases your emotional bank account but also the emotional assets of those around you. The state of your attitude determines the quality of your life. It colors your world. Groomed and nurtured in a positive manner, there will be no person or obstacle that can stand in the way of your success or fail to be impacted for the better.
I heard of a story about an elderly carpenter who was ready to retire. He told his employer of his plans to leave the house building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife and family. He would miss the paycheck, but he needed to retire. The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor. The carpenter said he would, but in time it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He resorted to shoddy workmanship and used inferior materials. It was an unfortunate way to end his career. When the carpenter finished his work and the builder came to inspect the house, the employer handed the front-door key to the carpenter, saying, “This is your house. It is my gift to you.”
What a shock! And what a shame! If he had only known he was building his own house he would have had a different attitude and done it all so differently. Now he had to live in the home he had built so sloppily.
So it is with us. We build our lives in a distracted way, reacting rather than acting, willing to tolerate less than the best. At important turning points and defining moments, we do not always put forth our best effort. Then, with a shock, we look at the situation we have created and find that we are now living in the house we have built. Many of us look back with regret. If we had only realized that every action we took or neglected to take in the past affected our future, we would have acted much differently. Think of yourself as the carpenter and your life as your house. Each day you hammer a nail, place a board, or erect a wall with your attitude. Build wisely, for it is the only life you will ever build.
Amen!