Attitude Check

I loves stories that make me feel incredibly lazy and like a quitter.  Weird?

For example, we all know it’s “Shark Week” on Discovery channel (YEAH!)…and they just aired a true story called “Adrift: 47 days with Sharks.”   It’s about 3 guys during WWII stranded in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, with sharks, after their plane went down.  47 DAYS!  Seriously? 

Or there’s the movie “127 Hours” where the dude actually cuts his arm off after it being pinned under a rock in the middle of the Utah desert for 127 hours.  I complain for days about a paper cut!

The stories always make me say “wow, I need to buck up!”  They give me a little huge reminder that life is great and we need to take advantage of it – and I love that.

My friend Tara emailed this video today (thanks Tara!).  I have seen it before but every time I watch I am left almost speechless.  Then I immediately am in awe of the power of PMA (Positive Mental Attitude, for those of you who did not go to sports camps as a kid).  Every situation you come across you have a choice to make of how you feel about it.  Sometimes you can react and stomp your foot (as I am famous for doing) or you can take a deep breath, go slowly step by step and be positive.  I read an excellent article that talked about “building a habit of positive language.”  Remove the words “never”, “can’t”, and “won’t” from your vocabulary.  One of my biggest pet peeves is hearing people say “I can’t do yoga” or “I can’t _______” – it makes me sad.  Because seriously, you could do “it” if you changed your attitude.  Having a positive attitude is so much more freeing, powerful and happier than having an unsure, fearful and negative attitude...so why not?! 

Watch this video – be amazed (and feel super lazy about yourself) and then go on with the rest of your day having a PMA!