One of the things I love the most in my life are the people who help me have a positive attitude. To be honest, I struggle at times keeping everything on the up and up (I am pretty analytical). Fortunately, I have unbelievable family and friends close to me that are off of the charts when it comes to being positive.
Starting with my wife Beth,God knew that I needed someone who would always see the best in me, and every situation we faced (snow today in the Ozarks and it's awesome!). I also have an assistant director who has without a doubt the purest positive heart on the planet. Going down my roster I find an women's director named Spook, a neighbor and friend named Keith Chancey (it's all good) and a host of other people, including Joe White, that ooze a spirit of always looking for the best.
My mom always said, "a good attitude or bad attitude...they all pay the same so you might as well have fun." She basically sums up Chuck Swindol's brilliant paragraph on this subject. This one belongs on our mirror where we brush our teeth and can read it every day...
“Attitudes”
Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitude toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there's no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.
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