Friday, August 14, 2009

Attitude

While I was searching through the books I will be using this year to teach English, I found this great advice from Charles Swindoll. It´s extremely fitting to us as educators, and I´m going to try to remember this, especially now when I´m experiencing something pretty amazing, yet very frustrating at times.

"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me 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 our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act 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 chargeof our Attitudes... Don´t you think so?"

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