On Attitude

Attitude—

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.

Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people say, or think, or do. It is more important than giftedness or skill.It will make or break a company, a church, a home.

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day.I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent how I react to it.

--Charles Swindoll

I read this quote today as I was doing one of my anomaly tasks as a corporate intern (gotta love it!). I thought about it for awhile and realized that this is soooo incredibly true and something I should think about more often.

I am that person who comes home from work at the end of the day and vegs out. I am a true and true introvert, needing time and space to regroup and be a normal person in society again. I don’t like to chat about my workday until I’ve had “me” time and dinner with tons of carbs to revitalize my endorphins. However, I realize that I encounter many people immediately at the end of my workday and their perception of my attitude is probably pretty negatively skewed.

So today, I’m making a vow to make a conscious effort to adjust my attitude to realize that · It can impact my attitude on life·

• It can make or break relationships·
• It is more important than giftedness or skill (although I envy people who truly have a gift)
• I need to embrace a positive attitude ALL day EVERY day

Attitude IS everything! (I think the picture along with this post is a perfect representation of what attitude should be...maybe my face should be on one of those office motivational posters with "ATTITUDE" written in bold letters under it!)

On that note, love my roomie right now for spending long hours planning our road trip to Oregon and even making a Sami-friendly spreadsheet of hotels, sites, mileage, and costs. Love her for understanding my anal retentive organizational-ness.

Spring Cleaning

I love the days when you get home from work and find yourself with the drive to actually get stuff done. I must say it's pretty rare, but a brilliant gem when it does happen. After a delicious haircut at Bangz Hair Salon (highly recommend Esther who entertained me with a lively convo about Lady Gaga and the embarrasments of tripping up a flight of stairs, love it!), I went home with a drive to finally get rid of the numerous electronics that have been stacking up in our house. With my roomie moving out at the end of the month (tear...) I thought no better time than now for some spring cleaning!!


So being the responsible environmentally friendly citizen that I am, I did my research on where I can recycle all the electronics that I have strewn through my house. Most places require you pay a $20.00 drop off fee for each CRT television that you recycle, and well we have three to dispose of.....which is a lot of money to get RID of a TV (probably more than I paid for the little buggers). However in my research I found a great deal...and it's all about incentives! So, the roomie and I hoped in the car packed up the 3 tvs, 2 cell phones, a stereo, a digital camera, a fan, and an alarm clock and headed down to Best Buy.


Yep, that's right Best Buy, which I only visit maybe once a year, if that. You can drop off your goods (and if you're sweet like us some blue shirted gentlemen will meet you at your car and carry everything for you...tee hee) at the store, and they will give you gift certificates for the amount that you would have paid for the CRT TVs at another recycling site. Sweeeeeeeet! I not only did some spring cleaning, but also scored some relatively free schwag (which may or may not have defeated the purpose of spring cleaning in the first place, but hey who's keeping tabs)!!


Happy Tuesday! Thank goodness for this short week.