Posts in category: POSITIVE ATTITUDE

Inspirational sayings to keep you growing, changing and aware

I’m frequently asked why I write when I don’t have to. I write to make my life better, by practicing change management, anger education and communication skills that work to make my life come alive. Talk is cheap. I prefer action to sass, and I figure it never hurts to “plus up” my mood and attitude with coffee-cup quotable quotes.

No doubt there are speed bumps on the road of life. No day I know of goes by smoothly on the two-way communication highway. But worry about speed bumps, pot holes and jolts? Nah. Cars have shock absorbers and brakes for a reason: so we don’t spill the coffee, sweetie.

No sense you and I crying over spilt coffee, now is there?

A maxim is a pithy statement that seeks to catch a general truth and hold it in your awareness. Catchy sayings just might catch your resistant mind off guard enough to permit positive changes to happen to you and yours every day of every year for the rest of your life.

I love to read this meditation on success when I’m ending a workshop on managing communication and coping with change. I wrote it for people who are eager to climb the ladder of success–and for myself when I feel a bit lost, lonely or like a loser.

It’s a vicious cycle: Negative thoughts make you feel worse, and the worse you feel, the more negative thoughts you entertain without screening them…and it all becomes enough to make you scream. As you magnify your faults, you stifle your social skills and confidence. Then you will feel shy, cautious about change, lonely, unwanted, unsure of yourself and unmindful of your positive goals.

Little changes made every day can help you learn to adapt to the bigger changes that lie ahead.