Chapter 7: The Importance of your Attitude “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances” Victor Frankl
Your Attitude is crucial for your happiness ! It can change your way of seeing
things dramatically and also your way of facing them. You will suffer less in life
if you accept the rules of the game. Life is made up of laughter and tears, light
and shadow. You have to accept the bad moments by changing your way of
looking at them. Everything that happens to you is a challenge and an
opportunity at the same time.
Look at the positive side of things in life even in the worst situations. There is
something good hidden in every bad – although sometimes it might take some
time to discover it.
I’ll tell you again: it’s not what happens in your life that’s important; it’s how
you respond to what happens to you that makes your life! Life is a chain of
moments – some happy, some sad - and it depends on you to make the best of
each and every one of those moments. Did your wife leave you? So will you be
unhappy forever or will you go out and meet new people? Losing your job might
open new doors.
Many years ago all of the success teachers and positive thinkers described it this
way: “If life gives you a lemon, add sugar to it, and make lemonade out of it”.
Younger readers might say that “If life gives you a lemon, ask for some salt and
Tequila”. You get the point, don’t you?
For example, some healthy attitudes are: • Allow yourself to make mistakes and learn from them.
• Admit that there are things you don’t know.
• Dare asking for help and let other people help you.
• Differentiate between what you have done in your life until now and what
you want to do or better still, will do from now on!
