“Face reality as
it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be”
(Jack Welch)
(Jack Welch)
While we can change certain things, other things are
out of our control. And if something is really out of our control, we have to
learn to accept it regardless of how much we wish it were different. We may not like the law of gravity and may hope it
did not exist (so we can fly!), and yet most of us accept it and learn to live
with it. If we refuse to accept the reality of this law, we will not survive
for long, and even if we do, we will experience constant frustration. The same
applies to every fact of reality, such as the fact that it is impossible to
literally go back in time and undo something that was done, or the fact that
all of us have some real physical limitations.
Instead of evading reality
and spending our life engaged in wishful thinking, we ought to spend our time
and effort on real thinking. “You cannot
tailor-make the situations in life,” said Zig Ziglar, “but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.” See
things as it really are, but then don’t let those that are beyond our control
paralyzed us. Facts and our limitations
may seem impossible to change – accept reality - but we have the choice of how
we are to react about it (attitude)
and act on it (positive actions).
Don’t refuse to accept reality,
Accept reality and act on it.
Lord, Give
Us Today Our Daily Idea(s)
Reference: Choose
the Life You Want: 101 Ways to Create You Own Road to Happiness by Tal
Ben-Shahar, PhD (New York: The Experiment, 2012) Buy this book!
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