From a friend:

ATTITUDE

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of

attitude

on life.

Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do.

It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company… a church… a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

We cannot change our past… we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable.

The Only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude…I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our

ATTITUDE.

Charles Swindell

I didn’t forget this, this weekend. But I found myself with no energy to be who I needed to be. I guess I used it all up just going out there.

Still, I received some nice gifts, which mean a lot to me, and one of them was selected quotes from Neil Gaiman. And one of the quotes was:

“Destiny always comes as a surprise to the destined.”

It sure does.

I have been trying to be a different person this year — not falsely, but honestly, as a natural growth. But I tried to push it this weekend and it wasn’t any good. You can’t make progress happen faster than it can.