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Title: Attitude is Everything
April 2001 Volume 2 Issue 4

Pegine’s Thought of the Month:

“Every moment is an opportunity to choose your attitude. It really is your choice how you act and more importantly how you RE-act. Choose wisely – you’re quality of life depends on it.”
~Pegine Echevarria, MSW

Quotes of the Month:

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

~John Homer Miller

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Try-its:
Here are three magic ways to change your attitude quickly:

1. If you are furious at someone. STOP-Walk Away-Let Go. Go to another room, take a pillow and pound it a minimum of 30 times. Or you can go to your car, roll up your windows and scream at the top of your lungs – let every inch of your body express your anger and frustration by your pounding or screaming in private. Go to a private place and write out your fury. Use every name in the book if necessary. Write it, express it, until it is expended, then rip it up or burn it. Only THEN can you choose to change your RE-action to the situation by calmly seeking solutions or accepting the situation as it is.
2. Play the game of ‘what if.’ Sometimes we don’t know a different way of being when a situation arises. Maybe we always break into tears when we are teased or get angry and take it personally. Practice Re-actions before the next situation occurs. Think of “what if” scenarios. When I’m teased ‘what if’ I reacted by laughing? ‘What if’ I had the confidence to confront the teaser what would that look like? Think about the different reactions you could potentially have. Next time you actually find yourself in these situations you can choose to use the new reaction and see what happens. Life is a game, so make it interesting.
3. Notice your physical manifestations of your attitude. Instead of automatically naming it –let’s say “scared” look for other emotions or attitudes that have similar physical manifestations. “Scared” and ‘excited’ manifest themselves in the same way. Choose excited over scared. See what happens, make life an adventure.


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“Attitude is Everything” by Jeff Keller
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Kick butt actions:

Our attitudes can hold us back or propel us to new heights. Is our attitude one of self-defeat, victim mentality or minority hopelessness? Or are we living a new and different attitude of winning, of power-survivor-victor? Are you being the powerful new majority? We all have a story. How we view our story can change our whole perception of our life and ourselves. For years I lived ‘the poor me – my dad abandoned me when I was young’ story. Until I realized “Thank God, imagine what my life would be like if he was around? Would I be who I am today?” And then the realization “I love who I am, without my story I wouldn’t be me!”
Write your ‘story’ the one that makes you angry, poor me, frustrated. The one that says if only…The one that you’ve nurtured and used as an excuse. Maybe your don’t have the college degree and that has been your excuse story. Maybe you use your stress or overwhelm as the excuse for not ‘living’. Whatever it is write it down. Or talk it into a tape recorder.
Now read it over and cross the victim or poor me language and change it to victor-winner language. Make it how you overcame the odds to succeed instead of how ‘your story’ held you back. Re-write the story of your survival. Now choose this new story as your story. See yourself as the victor, overcoming the odds. Truly that is what is important. Seeing what you have already done and survived as a winning story instead of what’s been done to you and what you suffered.


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The Motivational Times offers monthly suggestions, quotes, try-its, books and kick butt actions that can take you steps –no LEAPS, into a positive today! Being alive, having the courage to try some of the techniques and being liberated from thoughts, actions, or beliefs that hold you back are the basis of this newsletter. I hope you receive as much from this message as I get from being able to share the message that has been given to me.

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