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."
Regarding the attitude
We cannot change our past.
We cannot change the fact that
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