"Attitude Creates Reality"

The older I get, the more I realize that attitude is everything.  Thomas Jefferson once said, "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."  Albert Einstein said, "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."  Winston Churchill said, "Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."  

And sometimes, just a change in perspective can make all the difference in helping to change one's attitude.  The American businessman and author Harvey Mackay once said, "When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective."  I recently posted about a new Honda commercial ("Unstoppable Dreams") that demonstrates how a change in perspective, in this case, reading a poem from the bottom up rather than from the top down, can flip the meaning from a negative to a positive.  Here's another poem that I came across that does the same thing.  Read the poem from the top down first, then repeat and read from the bottom up.

Today was the absolute worst day every

And don't try to convince me that

There's something good in every day

Because when you take a closer look,

This world is a pretty evil place.

Even if

Some goodness does shine through once in a while

Satisfaction and happiness don't last.

And it's not true that

It's all in the mind and heart

Because

True happiness can be obtained

Only if one's surroundings are good

It's not true that good exists

I'm sure you can agree that

The reality

creates

My attitude

It's all beyond my control

And you'll never in a million years hear me say that

Today was a good day.  

It's incredible how a change in perspective can change the meaning.  Perspective changes attitude, and as the poem states, attitude creates reality.  Next time you find that you have a poor attitude, try changing your perspective.