optimist challenge

Just breathe. God knows the desires of your heart. Psalm 139: 1-4  O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a…

Stop playing the comparison game, and stop thinking that you do not measure up. 2 Corinthians 10:12 Oh, don’t worry; we wouldn’t dare say that we are as wonderful as these other men who tell you how important they are! But they are only comparing themselves with each other, using themselves as the standard of…

Stop letting the negativity of other people have a negative affect on your own attitude.  Years ago, I once worked with a woman who was a constant downer, and felt it necessary to express to me her every negative thought. ………. the meetings were always too long; the content was irrelevant to her; her salary increase was…

Develop an attitude of gratitude. Two and a half  weeks ago, at 4:00am, my fifteen year old daughter woke up in excruciating pain. We found ourselves in the Emergency Room one  hour later, and ended up staying for nearly eight hours, due to what turned out to be an extremely large ovarian cyst. Then last week, I found myself at the…