It has been said that the only things you can control are “attitude” and “effort.” The volleyball coach from Oregon State[1] said it this way, “You control both of these. No matter where you are in your skill development, physical conditioning and/or mental state your attitude and effort are factors that you alone can control.” Our third President, Thomas Jefferson, said “"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." [2]
We all know people that have had a “hard” life. If something bad is going to happen, it seems like it is going to happen to them. I have known people like that, and if they dwell on what they don’t have it is really a downer, for them and for you.
A friend told me a long time ago that life is like a card game. The deck of cards is all the possibilities that can happen in life and we are all dealt a hand to play. Some of our cards are great and easy to play, but others are more difficult. The only rule to the game is we need to play our own hands.
The thing I have learned over the years is that everyone has some poor cards in their hands. For some people though, you would never know it because of their attitude. They choose to bring a positive attitude to everything they do. These are the people you want to be around. These are the people that make others around them better. These are the people that praise God for every moment.
Zig Ziglar, a famous motivational speaker warned against hanging around people with bad attitudes when he said, “"Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people." [3]
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