I am an active practitioner of the mind-set that life is what you make of it. How a sentence is worded reveals a lot about an individual’s view on life. For example, the following three comments: a) “The glass is half-full”; b) “Today is partly sunny”; c) “I haven’t reached that point YET” are all of the TYPE of sentences that come out of my mouth on a regular basis. Another truism I totally buy into is “Perception is Reality”.

Positive thinking, optimism and self-fulfilling prophecies are all controllable things that make sense to me. The yang to my yin is our *friends the pessimists. *Even in typing this article, I can’t help calling the “archenemies” of Positive Living “friends”……..

To continue with the examples, the same three comments above could be worded, “a) The glass is half-empty…….who is going to fill my glass for me?, b) Today is partly cloudy……I bet it will be like this all week….c) I will never make it……I’m doomed……in fact, we’re ALLLLL doomed…….”

As most humans have the opportunity to choose exactly which words to use to describe a situation, I prefer to cast light with my words, rather throw shadows.

A “Joe Friday” version of the same three comments goes like this:

a) The glass has water in it.

b) Today’s weather is not consistent.

c) I’m working on it.

Tying the Title in with the Article

To illustrate this point, I have “defined” the meanings of each number value as it turns up on the roll of a die in words the I CHOOSE to use.

Rather than leave the outcome of your life to fate, or seemingly random happenings, in closing, may I suggest you look upon each event that occurs in one and only one of two ways: 

1) “Great, I’m glad that happened” or

2) “The leaning experience is not YET readily seen from this seemingly non-ideal outcome……..however, I’m confident a point to be leveraged for growth will soon become apparent. If history is allowed to forecast the future, when things go awry, as they sure have done in the past, a valuable LEARNING nugget is ALWAYS included in the deal. The challenge I have now is to FIND it.”

Any and all comments, both pro & con (Don’t be shy, I can take it!) are welcome in email form directly to: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Peace out,

Comments

Nice Article Written by duncans on 2005-09-28 14:26:52 Like the guy falling down the empire state building. At each floor, people would ask how are you? and he would respond, great so far...

The Nice Dice Article is NICE Written by 'Guest' on 2008-02-06 16:54:57 I would like to Modify John L's comment of, "Why can't we all just get along?", which is a rethorical question, I believe", to, "Why can't we all just be NICE?"    I don't have the anwer to this one YET.........    However, I am working on it, from my side of the street.....    Over and out,    Bill W  Tsukishima 2-chome  Tokyo, Japan

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