Philippians 2:3-5 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus
The single most significant decision you can make on a day-to-day basis is your choice of attitude. It is more important than your past, your education, your bank account, your successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of you, or say about you, your circumstances, or your position. The attitude you choose keeps you going or cripples your progress. It alone fuels your fire or assaults your hope. When your attitudes are right, there’s no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for you.
Yet we must admit that we spend more of our time concentrating and fretting over the things that can’t be changed than we do giving attention to the one that we can change, our choice of attitude. Stop and think about some of the things that suck up our attention and energy, all of them inescapable: the weather, the wind, people’s action and criticisms, who won or lost the game, delays at airports or waiting rooms, x-ray results, gas and food costs.
Quit wasting energy fighting the inescapable and turn your energy to keeping the right attitude. Those things we can’t do anything about shouldn’t even come up in our minds; the alternative is ulcers, cancer, sourness and depression.
Choose each day and every day to keep an attitude of faith and joy and a belief and compassion. See your glass as half full vs. half empty. Be positive in everything that God has done, and is doing in your life. Let your thirst be quenched by your glass that is half full vs. allowing yourself to be parched by your glass that is half empty.
Tim Carlisle
