Challenging Normal

Your attitude and outlook in life will determine a lot of things. With all this talk about hoping that 2009 is better than 2010 I had a thought. A year in itself is not bad, events are not bad, what you do with them and your outlook can be if you let it. If you let it life has no hope, no joy, no peace. We can find bad in anything and everything that we do and everywhere we look. On the other hand people can find the positive in everything. Find the brighter side of the doom and gloom. That ability to see things comes from our attitude.

Here is something that I have always known deep down but I am relearning more and more lately. Attitude is contagious. Good or bad it has an affect of the people that you are around. Only truly selfish people fail to realize that our lives have an influence on the people that are around us. Your attitude and outlook on life, good or bad will bring those around you up or down.

Do not believe me? Have you ever seen someone walked into the room and suck all the energy out? Everything is going good and everyone is having a good time, then someone with a bad attitude walks in and sucks all the energy out of the room. Takes the mood of the room down, people notice it and some feel like they have to address it. On the other hand, have you ever noticed someone with a good attitude? How they brighten the world around them? They have a way of making a room the better place.

Your attitude is contagious. I challenge you today to be aware of that. Be aware of the fact that your attitude affects others, it has an influence on the people in your world.