It has been said that the only disability in life is a bad attitude. For me, that rings true, at least to some degree.
Let’s explore the idea.
Have you faced numerous challenges in your life, dear reader?
Maybe you’re feeling a little bit sorry for yourself?
Life hasn’t been fair to you recently, possibly?
If life’s unfair, you might feel that you’re entitled to have a bad attitude. Everyone’s doing fine but you, so why shouldn’t you let the world know that you’re not happy, right? We all feel that way occasionally, don’t we? I do, that’s for sure.
However, if you’re trying to get people on your side with a negative attitude, then you should reconsider. No one will be joining you at the pity party. You won’t find anyone sympathetic to a bad attitude, I assure you.
If there’s one genuine disability in life, it’s a bad attitude.
It’s a fact that negativity never impresses anyone, ever. Other people have enough problems of their own.
It doesn’t win people over; it will simply alienate them. You’ll be pushing them away rather than gathering their support and winning hearts and minds.
Life isn’t fair. If it has never been, and it never will be. That’s a fact, unfortunately.
You’ll find that life doesn’t care about what you want. It doesn’t care about what anyone wants.
It doesn’t care about any sense of entitlement you may have.
Nor does life care that you feel that you should have a bigger piece of the pie.
In my experience, life is what you make it. Nothing happens by accident unless you’re very, very lucky. And no one is consistently that lucky.
Your attitude will define the life you enjoy or don’t enjoy.
It’s not about what happens to you. Stuff happens to everyone.
Yes, it’s true, some people bear a greater share of life’s challenges than others. However, ultimately, your life will be defined by how you respond to everything that happens to you.
Positive beats negative:
No matter how tough life gets, a positive attitude will take you further than a negative one ever will.
A positive attitude is the most powerful response to life’s misfortunes.
It says you can knock me down as many times as you like, but you won’t keep me down. I will get up, and I will keep getting up until I reach my destination.
Now, that sort of attitude does impress people.
Life responds positively to those with a positive attitude. I can tell you that from personal experience.
You’ll find that a positive attitude will always win people over. Show them that you can rise above everything life throws at you, and you’ll have their respect.
In the embedded video below, Matthew Jeffers, a senior acting major at Towson University in Maryland, shares an inspiring message with the letter he wrote to the Baltimore Ravens, his favourite NFL team.
The letter was entitled “A Reason to Win,” and it’s all the more impressive when considered against Matthew’s struggles with Skeletal Dysplasia.
The ultimate lesson is that life won’t cut you any slack just because you’re feeling sorry for yourself.
Attitude is everything:
Yes, it’s true. Attitude is everything. If you believe you can, you will; if you believe you can’t, you won’t. It’s that simple.
Many people experience tough lives, and however hard your life is, there’ll be plenty of people out there whose lives are far tougher than yours. Many people experience disabilities of varying degrees of severity, but, as Matthew Jeffers observes, the only real disability in life is a bad attitude.
So if you’re feeling a bit dispirited right now, take a good, hard look at yourself and think about the positives you have in your life, rather than constantly focusing on the negatives.
This video will inspire you, so take a look at it now. It’s well worth a few minutes of your time.
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