Six Little Stories…

Faith, trust, hope, confidence, love, attitude.  Which of these descriptions will apply to your day today?  All of them?  Any of them?  Maybe you would say it depends on whether I’m having one of those days.  An interesting premise:  Do we control the day or does the day control us? 

“How’s your day?” is a common conversation starter among family, friends, and colleagues.  “I’m having a good day” or, “I’m having a bad day” are common responses.  Of course it is easy for others to say, “control your day”; even easier for me to blog about it. 

Talking about it; blogging about it, is one thing.  Actually living each day in a way that we control our outlook and our mindset no matter what we face during the day – well, that’s something altogether different, true?  Nonetheless, there is great power in the idea of maintaining our inner power.  In the business world, it’s referred to as emotional intelligence.  Around family and friends it can be as simple as being in a good mood.  Again, easy to talk/blog about it. 

It's not our circumstances that steal our joy; it's our attitude during our circumstances.

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Speaking of circumstances, I saw this post on Facebook.  These six little stories reminded me that my inner power is there to be called on throughout the day.  There wasn’t an accreditation and I couldn’t find the author via Google so let’s attribute it to our favorite, Unknown Sage: 

Six Little Stories with Lots of Meanings 

1. Once all villagers decided to pray for rain.  On the day of prayer, all the people gathered, but only one boy came with an umbrella. 

That is faith.

2. When you throw babies in the air, they laugh because they know you will catch them. 

That is trust.

3. Every night we go to bed without any assurance of being alive the next morning, but still we set alarms, 

That is hope.

4. We plan big things for tomorrow in spite of zero knowledge of the future. 

That is confidence.

5. We see the world suffering, but still, we get married and have children. 

That is love.

6. An old man’s shirt was written with sentence “I am not 80 years old; I am sweet 16 with 64 years of experience.” 

That is attitude.

Have a happy day and live your life like these six stories.  Remember – Good friends are the rare jewels of life, difficult to find and impossible to replace! 

Six little stories that are powerful!  

When I think of inner power, the word peace comes to my mind as well.  The first person I heard combine these words in a formal message was Doug Burgum, former CEO of Great Plains a software company headquartered in Fargo, North Dakota.  I was there twenty two years ago; January of 2000.  I heard Doug speak to an audience of international resellers.  Just being in Fargo in January was testament to the attendees’ determination.  It was worth the trip for me when I heard Doug say: 

There is both peace and power in knowing and understanding who you are, where you're from and where you're going.  

I like being reminded of who I am and where I’m from.  As to where I’m going?  Well, the six little stories remind me whatever the destination, it will be good.  I hope these six little stories encourage you too when you’re having one of those days. 

GAP 

When life gets tough we could get a helmet… or… we could leverage the peace and share the power of a positive perspective.