{"id":79,"date":"2011-11-28T14:57:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T19:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dealersinhope.wordpress.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2013-02-20T09:01:50","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T14:01:50","slug":"decide-or-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patserver.ddns.net\/dealersinhope\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"DECIDE or DECLINE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Almost everybody\u2019s life is a constant roller-coaster. If I illustrate the emotions in the life of an average person, it would look a lot like a heart beat line.<\/p>\n

I read several books saying that our thinking creates our environment.
\nSometime I still think exactly the other way, that my environment influences my thinking.
\nBad weather makes us grouch, traffic jams makes us angry, the way society is in general makes us sad and depress, so our environment clearly creates our attitude, right?
\nWrong!
\nWE DECIDE on our own free will to create a bad attitude because of our environment.
\nYou most likely heard those quotes saying there is two faces on a medal, or that a glass of water can be half full or half empty. These are so true!
\nIf there is bad weather, I\u2019m sure we can find something positive to do other than mourning. If we\u2019re caught in traffic every day, we certainly can find good CDs or take this time to \u201ctalk\u201d with our passenger, my wife loves that. \ud83d\ude42
\nSociety is upsetting\u2026 Why should we be forced to surrender to the rotten mindset of a great percentage of our society?
\nWhy can\u2019t we DECIDE to be different from the crowd and think our own way?
\nWhy can\u2019t we DECIDE to close our ears from trash talks of others and medias?
\nWhy can\u2019t we DECIDE to live a life for excellence and not a life for existence?<\/p>\n

We have a choice to think positively or negatively of any situation, and we must DECIDE witch one we want in our life.
\nOf course it\u2019s easier to be angry and trash talk about everything bothering us and it\u2019s really hard to push ourselves to think something positive of a bad situation, but it can be done and in the aftermath, we feel so much better.<\/p>\n

I am writing about this today because I\u2019m personally in a situation of perception of others reaction vs. my thinking.
\nIn short, I had recently to rearrange my activities in a group of friends because I was choking under the work load and I had to let go some of it.
\nThey all said that it was OK, that they will find someone else to do the job, but in my mind, I sort of let them down and I imagine several scenarios and I really feel they are colder with me.
\nOn the other hand, it\u2019s probably my wounded attitude making them uncomfortable. As soon as I come back with no bad thinking and a good attitude, I\u2019m sure their attitude with me will change, or at least my perception of it will.<\/p>\n

We can create what we want in our life.
\nIt\u2019s easy to do and it\u2019s easy not to do.
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Thanks for reading, Patric J. Dufficy<\/p>\n

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Almost everybody\u2019s life is a constant roller-coaster. If I illustrate the emotions in the life of an average person, it would look a lot like a heart beat line. I read several books saying that our thinking creates our environment. Sometime I still think exactly the other way, that my environment influences my thinking. Bad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[7,29,35,60,67,75,76,99],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership-2","category-life-2","tag-attitude","tag-decide","tag-emotion","tag-life","tag-negative","tag-perception","tag-positive","tag-thinking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3c0Pc-1h","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patserver.ddns.net\/dealersinhope\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patserver.ddns.net\/dealersinhope\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patserver.ddns.net\/dealersinhope\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patserver.ddns.net\/dealersinhope\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patserver.ddns.net\/dealersinhope\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/patserver.ddns.net\/dealersinhope\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618,"href":"https:\/\/patserver.ddns.net\/dealersinhope\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patserver.ddns.net\/dealersinhope\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patserver.ddns.net\/dealersinhope\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patserver.ddns.net\/dealersinhope\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}