My Attitude Changes Everything

I heard it said somewhere, that your life is 10% what happens and 90% what you do about it. If you start with a crappy attitude, then everything turns out no so great, but if you begin with the end in mind, and tackle life with a positive attitude, or in our cases a compassionate one, then life is amazing. Literally, your attitude changes everything.

Quick and Simple Disclaimer: The readings in this post are literally taken wholesale out of the book entitled Courage to Change. You can find it at Amazon, Here. The portion entitled Alleged Insight, well that mess is all me.
If you’re an introvert, go buy the book, if you’re a broke introvert, the text from many good books can be found HERE , if you’re in dire straits however, go find an Al-Anon Meeting, it saved me.

So onward to Today’s Reading

I have heard that the time to be especially gentle with myself is not when I’ doing well, but when I am doing poorly. I may be able to push myself hard when things are going my way, but I invite trouble if I try this when I’m already struggling to manage the basic activities of y life. I used to worry that if I didn’t push myself all the time, I would turn into a slug and nothing would get done. But my Fourth Step Inventory showed me that the opposite is true. I tend to be very hard on myself, so hard at…