Last night I babysat my darling niece Allison. I have been going thru some personal transitions.
As I was watching her this morning she insisted on wearing her "Strawberry Dress" which was of course filthy since she wore it yesterday. I had gotten a lovely"Blueberry" dress. I showed her how I can wash it and then she can wear it. Her being a toddler of course pitched a fit on the floor. As I then took her aside to explain that she had to be patient while the dress is being washed or if she continued her tantrum she would have to wear the blueberry dress and not get to wear the Strawberry dress at all!!
I then went into the kitchen to get some coffee and it came to me how much I am like my darling niece.
How often have I been pitching a fit because I wasn't getting what I wanted and now. Maybe that thing is dirty and needs to be cleaned or maybe the blueberry dress is going to be better.
Right now my blueberry dress is being "single". Recently I had a rather hot date with a young man who I will call the "Strawberry dress". Of course I had a good time and I know that our paths at this juncture are going very different paths. We have been good freinds and that is what is should remain. But it is so easy to get sidetracked and want that "Strawberry" dress.. and now. Now there are very good reasons I should not have that dress and probebly ever but like so many (maybe as you are reading this you are lucky and you have never had this problem) my one awful weakness has been men. So easy to get sidetracked and I have thought of the many periods of my life when I was doing so great..being single it was awesome..then along comes the dresses..and I am told..no, not now and if you dont behave yourself now ever.LOL
When I had this revelation I just laughed but it is incredibly serious. It seems so simple and silly but I realized how simple and true and the Revelation of the Strawberry dress came to me.
So I am going to go do what I have at hand and not pitch that tantrum. I am going to enjoy my life as it is and as it can be. It is all about attitude and maybe all the relationship advise we ever need we can get from a child!!
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Twenty Habits That Hold You Back From The Top
Winning too much
: The need to win at all costs and in all situations- when it matters, when it doesn’t, and when it’s totally beside the point.Adding too much value
: The overwhelming desire to add our two cents to every discussion.Passing judgment
: The need to rate others and impose our standards on them.Making destructive comments
: The needless sarcasms and cutting remarks that we think make us sound sharp and witty.Starting with "No’, "But", or "However"
: The overuse of these negative qualifiers which secretly say to everyone, "I’m right. You’re wrong."Telling the world how smart we are
: The need to show people we’re smarter than they think we are.Speaking when angry
: Using emotional volatility as a management tool.Negativity or "Let me explain why that won’t work"
: The need to share our negative thoughts even when we weren’t asked.Withholding information
: The refusal to share information in order to maintain an advantage over others.Failing to give proper recognition
: The inability to praise and reward.Claiming credit that we don’t deserve
: the most annoying way to overestimate our contribution to any success.Making Excuses
: The need to reposition our annoying behavior as a permanent fixture so people excuse us for it.Clinging to the past
: The need to deflect blame away from ourselves and onto events and people from our past; a subset of blaming everyone else.Playing favorites
: Failing to see that we are treating someone unfairly.Refusing to express regret
: The inability to take responsibility for our actions, admit we’re wrong, or recognize how our actions affect others.Not listening
: the most passive-aggressive form of disrespect for colleagues.Failing to express gratitude
: The most basic form of bad manners.Punishing the messenger
: The misguided need to attack the innocent who are usually only trying to help us.Passing the buck
: The need to blame everyone but ourselves.An excessive need to be "me"
: Exalting our faults as virtues simply because they’re who we are.What do you do for those who are less fortunate than you? What do you wish you did more of, if anything?
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The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think, say or do. It is more important than appearance,
giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company...a school...a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will
embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way...we cannot change the inevitable. The only
thing we can do is plan on the one thing we have, and that is our superior attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react
to it. A superior attitude will produce superior results.
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