Knowing is half the battle

“Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.”

Why? Because, we choose how we react. For example, a person is mean to us. Then we let that situation take away our joy and maybe even ruin an entire day. So being “mean” was just one thoughtless act — one small interval in time. That’s the 10%. Yet, your reaction can last for an entire day. There is the 90%.

In life we should put things into context one problem at a time and not overwhelm ourselves or others with unreasonable expectations. Don’t over compensate for mistakes or failures by being hard on yourself. Life is not meant to be fixed but lived. Be a part of life. We all come to find sooner or later small daily changes can impact our lives in a far more effective way than one day of over compensation.

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“Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitude toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right; there’s no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.”