The key difference between a poor attitude and a positive attitude

Roadside wildflowers on Going To The Sun Road

 

(photo: Stopped along the roadside to say hello to these gracious gifts from Mother Nature)

The key difference between a poor attitude and a positive attitude has nothing to do with happiness.

Being happy is not the cornerstone of a positive attitude.

Being grateful is.

While being happy all the time may seem impossible, being constantly grateful is anything but.

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The difference between these two makes all the difference

Mental Floss magazine cover
Questions and answers are different yet related – same with happiness and gratitude

 

It would seem there’s a difference between happy and grateful. A difference that makes all the difference.

The difference between these two makes all the difference:

  1. Happiness
  2. Gratitude

We can be grateful all the time (no exceptions).

This has a contagious side effect though – happiness.

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So joyful and thankful, even though it seemed unappreciated?

Photo from AARP newsletter about ReImagining life
One conversation, two people, one profoundly changed (it was me). Although the intent was to help change the other.

 

Find the good in every situation. It becomes habit, and our joy becomes prolific.

So thankful that a friend and I had an intense, honest, loving, two-hour dinner conversation, prompted by the friend’s question, “Any feedback?”

It hit me two days later that the risk I took – and the content provided – to share ‘brutally honest’ feedback was never acknowledged.

No, “Thank you Jeff for sharing that with me. I truly appreciate you being so completely and utterly honest and insightful.”

Doesn’t matter.

What matters is I answered the question fully and completely.

Finally.

I can now move on, gratefully.

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