Since the house is on fire, let us warm ourselves.” – Italian Proverb
I was out of the office most of this week, not giving me much time to write an article. I hope you won’t mind this short story today.
There once was a woman who woke up one morning, looked in the mirror and noticed she only had three hairs on her head.
“Well,” she said, “I think I’ll braid my hair today.”
So she did, and she had a wonderful day.
The next day she woke, looked in the mirror and saw she only had two hairs on her head.
“Hmmm,” she said, “I think I’ll part my hair down the middle today.”
She did and she had a grand day.
The next morning she woke up, looked in the mirror and noticed she only had one hair on her head.
“Well,” she said, “today I’m going to wear my hair in a ponytail.”
So she did and she had a fun-filled day.
The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and noticed there wasn’t a single hair on her head.
“Great!” she exclaimed. “I don’t have to fix my hair today.”
Attitude is everything.
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude in life. It is more important than education, than money, than failures or successes, than whatever anyone might say or do.
The remarkable thing is that we have a choice to create the attitude we have for each day. We cannot change our past. We cannot change the way people act. We cannot change the inevitable. The one thing we have control over is our attitude. We have the power to choose to have a positive one.
It has been said that life is 10 percent what actually happens to us and 90 percent how we react to it. If we don’t like something, we should try to change it. If we can’t change it, we need to change the way we think about it.
Have a positively good day!
The answer to last week’s trivia question — Can you name the 12 attorneys practicing in Shawano in 1959? — is Lloyd G. Andrews, E.L. Aschenbrener, John C. Black, Louis J. Brunner, Louis W. Cattau, Frederic Eberlein, Michael G. Eberlein, H.E. Koehler, Rolland Kuckuk, Jack J. Schumacher, Ovid B. Strossenruther and Douglas Winter.
This week’s question is: What was the name of the woman’s fine apparel clothing store located at 154 S. Main St. in Shawano in 2001 and who was the owner?
