Many times we forget that our attitude has a big part in directing how our days will turn out.

THE SCULPTOR’S ATTITUDE

I woke up early today, excited over all I get to do before the clock strikes midnight.
I have responsibilities to fulfill today. I am important.

My job is to choose what kind of day I am going to have.

Today I can complain because the weather is rainy or…
I can be thankful that the grass is getting watered for free.  Read more... (336 words, estimated 1:21 mins reading time)

Tomorrow is not promised…therefore:

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” —Mahatma Gandhi

“Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?” —Roy H. Williams

“How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.” —George Washington Carver

“Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson  Read more... (365 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room.

One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the room’s only window.

The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.

The men talked for hours on end. They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation.  Read more... (495 words, estimated 1:59 mins reading time)