The longer I live the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.

Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important in the past than education

than money than circumstances circumstances, then failures, and successes, than what other people think, say, or do.

It's more important than the appearance, giftedness, or skill.

It will make or break a company, a church, or a home, and the remarkable

thing is we have a choice every single day regarding the attitude we embrace for that day.

We can't change our past.

We can't change the fact that people will act in certain ways and we can't change the inevitable.

The only thing we can do is to play the one stream we have, and that is our attitude.

I'm convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.

And so it is with you we are in charge of our attitudes. This is a poem by Charles Swindle as he talks about

attitude and I wanted to talk today on this podcast about attitude because I feel that you can either be as successful as you want to be

or as mediocre as you want to be or as much of a failure as you want to be and it all

depends on one thing and that's your attitude.

The way you view the world, the way you view your colleagues, the way you view your

patients, they're all going to have an impact on how you perform, on how you either succeed or fail in life

because attitude ultimately is what's going to kind of shape the person that you want to be. There's a powerful book called

The Power of Now, which I read quite a bit, quite some time ago, and this is a book by Eckhart Toll,

and he talks about how we should be living in the now.

You know, forget what happened in the past, forget what's going to happen in the future.

So many people are wrapped up in what will happen or what

has happened that they forget to really embrace and cherish what is going on now.

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