Starting yesterday I am instituting an attitude changing habit. In today’s world of attitudes predicting the impending doom of the world in general how do you find a little light to cling to. I do my best to see the world from a positive place. It is so easy to go into a dark place and just be pessimistic and jaded over anything that happens to you or around you.
As we enter a season where giving is the focus it seems like a great time to just take time to adjust your own attitude. I don’t know where this quote came from but someone smart said if you can’t love yourself, you can’t love anyone. There is truth in that. We as people see in other people what we know in ourselves. So, with this in mind I am trying to affect change in my attitude and remind myself why I am on this earth every day.
Here is what I am doing. There is a whiteboard (pictured above) in my office that I can see from where I sit in my office. Every day I will write a new phrase that I can look at when I am hosting calls, responding to email, just going about my daily work. This will help me be accountable to what I am trying to do. A bonus to the location of this board is that when people are walking by it they will read it and perhaps one or two might go on this journey with me, that didn’t even know they needed to.
Yesterday’s phrase is: Get some Perspective.
This can be interpreted in a lot of ways. For me this always means that I cannot possibly know what is going on in other people’s lives. Every person has a different perspective and it shapes and shifts how one person might respond to any situation. Having a job like mine, this is crucial to understanding and working with people to do work that they are not bound to perform for you. Using perspective can gain you the ability to accomplish what you need to or recognize that there are stronger needs for this person than yours.
As we enter a season where giving is the focus it seems like a great time to just take time to adjust your own attitude. I don’t know where this quote came from but someone smart said if you can’t love yourself, you can’t love anyone. There is truth in that. We as people see in other people what we know in ourselves. So, with this in mind I am trying to affect change in my attitude and remind myself why I am on this earth every day.
Here is what I am doing. There is a whiteboard (pictured above) in my office that I can see from where I sit in my office. Every day I will write a new phrase that I can look at when I am hosting calls, responding to email, just going about my daily work. This will help me be accountable to what I am trying to do. A bonus to the location of this board is that when people are walking by it they will read it and perhaps one or two might go on this journey with me, that didn’t even know they needed to.
Yesterday’s phrase is: Get some Perspective.
This can be interpreted in a lot of ways. For me this always means that I cannot possibly know what is going on in other people’s lives. Every person has a different perspective and it shapes and shifts how one person might respond to any situation. Having a job like mine, this is crucial to understanding and working with people to do work that they are not bound to perform for you. Using perspective can gain you the ability to accomplish what you need to or recognize that there are stronger needs for this person than yours.
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