Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely. Roy T. Bennett, author
Taking Roy Bennett’s advice and looking to the Peanut’s cartoons for help with attitude adjustment, here’s what I found.
Remember Lucy and her the Psychiatric Help, 5 cents, the doctor is in cartoon? Sometimes, when life is difficult, Lucy’s advice makes sense.
Here’s a favorite—“Go home and eat a jelly-bread sandwich folded over,” she once quipped, reminding me not to over-dramatize the situation and just curl up with some comfort food until the storm blew over.
Sometimes, we need a good laugh to adjust our attitude—
Lucy Van Pelt: I know how you feel about all this Christmas business, getting depressed and all that. It happens to me every year. I never get what I really want. I always get a lot of stupid toys or a bicycle or clothes or something like that.
Charlie Brown: What is it you want?
Lucy Van Pelt: Real estate.
Affirmation: I will choose my attitude wisely.
Coaching questions: What’s your attitude about the holidays this year? How might you choose differently? What difference will it make?
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Life after losing a mother 
Well …….. put up the tree
— Put some lights outside and some decorations in the windows
— Got the box with all the annoying cute little odds and ends that I never know where to put and said, “No one is coming in this house except the dog and me.”
— Put the odds and ends back in their box; told them I still love them, and said to the dog, “Well, that was easy!”
Attitude: calm choice 😚
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