The
path of our lives is not so much determined by what ‘happens’ to us, because
life does ‘happen’ – but how we react to the things that ‘happen’ to us in
life. Are you choosing to be a Victim or
a Victor? A successful business person,
or someone who complains about a lack of business? Are you someone who gives value, or simply
tries to ‘get’ business?
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| Helen Keller - Beautiful inside and out! |
This
article from Helen Keller is a favorite of mine because it speaks about a positive
attitude; gratitude, and the perception of good in everything around her. What a remarkable woman! At Viva La
Voice, we are committed to bringing out the positive in singers, speakers
and everyday people who seek a more confident, fulfilled life.
Helen
Keller - Optimism
“My
optimism rests on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing
effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail. I try to
increase the power God has given me to see the best in everything and every
one, and make that best a part of my life. The world is sown with good; but
unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field, I
cannot reap a kernel of the good.
Thus
my optimism is grounded in two worlds, myself and what is about me. I demand
that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts
rearrange themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true. To what is
good I open the doors of my being, and jealously shut them against what is bad.
Such is the force of this beautiful and willful conviction, it carries itself
in the face of all opposition. I am never discouraged by absence of good. I
never can be argued into hopelessness. Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of
timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind
transcend.
I
trust, and nothing that happens disturbs my trust. I recognize the beneficence
of the power which we all worship as supreme—Order, Fate, the Great Spirit,
Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow and
keeps life afoot, I make a friend of this indefinable force, and straightway I
feel glad, brave and ready for any lot Heaven may decree for me. This is my
religion of optimism.” From “Optimism” by Helen Keller, introduction by Carl
Japikse.
