PERSPECTIVE

You are in control of how you look at something.  You and you alone determine whether to be offended at someone’s remark, choose whether something makes you angry, or frustrated and whether you see something or someone as hateful.

Conversely, you control whether a remark rolls off your back, decide to approach a distasteful task with a positive outcome in mind, or decide not to judge someone or something.

You have this power and you get it by making a choice.  You develop it, in fact, like a muscle, by making the choice, everyday, to have a different perspective on things.

It’s not the Pollyanna principle, or the Rose-Coloured-Glasses dystopia.  On the contrary, it’s the much more difficult, but infinitely more healthy, sane and satisfying way to live.