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19 October 2024

Attitude is Everything

I wish I could remember the name of the sweet older women who I worked with at WSIU-TV in Carbondale in 2004.  She was always very upbeat & had a great demeanor.  I only worked with her my first semester filing Beta Max tapes in the Post Production archives, before she retired. But, one day she gave me some wonderful advice that I still try to live by to this day.

"Your attitude is everything.  It's the only thing you really have control over in this life.  So, don't ever take it for granted," she said.

Before she left, she handed out a poem by Charles Swindell to all of us at the station.  Here's an excerpt from that poem entitled, "Attitude."

"The remarkable thing is 
We have a choice every day
Regarding the attitude 
We will embrace for that day.
We cannot change our past.
We cannot change the fact that 
People will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.

The only thing we can do
Is play the string we have.
And that is our attitude."

Words to live by.  I still have my printout of the poem that she handed out that day.

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