change your mind, change your mood
Know who you are and what you want. What’s seen depends on what is sought. We see not facts but as we are, blinded to objections by heart’s desire.
Can’t change facts, so adapt your view. Not all improves by attitude, but in most ways we are as happy as we choose to let ourselves be.
Develop your own sense of satisfaction, not from others or their reactions. Instead explore what’s possible based upon genuine obstacles.
Stories have sides: yours, mine, the facts. In what we know lies what we lack—what we believe that isn’t so. Stubborn illusion, more ‘no’ than know.
In failure start over, wiser than before. So if you must fail, fail forward. To learn from loss is to begin to win; not giving up on what might’ve been.
Adjusting is hard on self-esteem, true. But confidence does what it’s afraid to do. Act on principles, not choices most make. Mistakes by many are still mistakes.
Prepare, prevent; not repair and repent. Before it begins, win the argument. Ignore a slight rather than avenge it. Response in anger is speech you’ll regret.
People improve when they have models; ask what a wise person ought. Values are what you will or won’t. Don’t put your life up for others to vote.
Don’t let fear give small issues big shadows. Use preparation to cast light on tomorrow. Find options so, when there needs be, you can detour and enjoy the scenery.
What you say and do is the fruit of decision, but to others you are actions, not intentions. You’re what you do with what you have. If you do not live it, you don’t believe it.
Persistence won’t give up; never gives in. Winners don’t quit; quitters can’t win. Persistence endures when all else fails. Haste counts losses; patience prevails.
Success means getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. As we are helpful and to that degree, we often find that we are happy.
