People react differently when they face adverse situations, get bad news or are hit with a crisis. Some will choose to move forward with a positive attitude and others will dwell on the negative.
This is a lesson I shared with my youngest daughter this weekend.
She was quietly watching television when a shelf fell off the wall. Now, I know what you’re thinking, shelves don’t just fall off the wall – but I was there and saw it. There was a weak part in the wood and it broke apart causing it to fall off the nail.
My daughter started crying immediately. Together we surveyed the damage. There was a collection of figurines on the shelf that crashed to the floor. One lost a head, another broke an arm, and a third lost a teapot.
I told my daughter that everything would be OK if she ate a popsicle.
I quickly repaired the figurines with Super Glue and my daughter gave me the popsicle stick. I cut off a couple of non-sticky pieces of the popsicle stick and showed her how to fix the shelf – reinforcing the wood with Super Glue. Then we put everything back on the wall.
When the shelf fell, my daughter’s world came crashing down. Within 15 minutes all was right in her world and she learned that the shelf and figurines weren’t broken – they just weren’t fixed yet.
It’s Monday, what kind of day are you going to have? If you tell yourself you’re having a bad day, you’ll have one. And, if you tell yourself you’re having a great day, you’ll have one.
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Monday, August 10, 2009
by Sean Taylor Simpson
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