Ten Lifestyle Goals for Healthy Living Part 8 || Port Alberni Investment Advisor

Your attitude is everything!  In this eighth post on goals for maintaining a healthy lifestyle, we are going to look at how important it is to maintain a positive, cheerful and hopeful outlook on life.  Our thoughts, attitudes and points of view are created in our minds, and this has a direct impact on the world we see around us.  It colours or shades our judgment.  It is our own personal world of attitude, and it affects everything in our daily lives.  If we consciously monitor our attitudes to be positive in all that we do, we will be happier and healthier as a result.  Attitude impacts everything we do – our approach to our education, job, money, our relationships with people, circumstances we face, the way we handle failure or success, our appearance, and just about every experience we have.   Each and every day, as we live, work and play, we are faced with choices.  It is the attitude that we embrace that can put either a positive or negative spin on our experiences.  We can’t change the way other people around us behave, but we can change our attitude in our dealings with them.  We can’t change the problems and conflicts that cross our path, but a positive attitude will make us stronger and happier.  One way to put things into perspective is to think about how lucky you are compared to the majority of the rest of the people in this world.  And if you don’t believe you are lucky, take a look at how people on the other side of the globe live.  Our lives are rich compared to 90% of the rest of the world.  So think about that that the next time you find yourself feeling down and put-out about the problems or conflicts you face.  You are in charge of your attitude, and your attitude can shape your life.  Someone once said that life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you react to it.  Here are two quotes that I would like to share with you as food for thought.  The first is from Martha Washington (wife of President George Washington).  "I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself, for I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstances, but by our decision."  The second quote is from Scottish writer, Thomas Carlyle.  "Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen." It’s in our best interest to smile and maintain a happy, cheerful disposition as often as we can.  We will be happier and may experience more success in whatever we do.  Here are some happy (and not so happy) faces to share with you.

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