You have choices in life that you may not always see…like whether or not to worry or obsess about not having a job or the slow recovery of the job market.
Even when you feel like you don’t, you often have options that can influence the process and perhaps even the outcome of a situation in your response to what’s happening.
By focusing on what is happening externally, you are likely to overlook what’s going on within you—such as your attitude and feelings—two things over which you have direct control.
Unlike much of what goes on around you, you can have a direct impact on what you think or how you feel.
Recently I was sitting in an airport in South Carolina, missing flight after flight home due to weather conditions, I first felt frustrated and as though something was happening to me. While in a sense, this was true, it was also true that I had choices as to how to spend my time and whether or not to be annoyed or good-natured about it all.
Tensions ran high as passengers heard the news: no flights were coming or going. For the most part, I saw few people making lemon out of lemonade. They had all unconsciously decided to have a particular mindset about something external to them they could not change.
No matter the circumstances of your life, don’t overlook your attitude or your feelings. By shifting your attention, you might be surprised that you feel better by taking charge in some small way of what’s happening around you.
