{"id":4876,"date":"2014-08-10T17:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T23:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=4876"},"modified":"2014-08-06T22:27:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T04:27:11","slug":"change-it-or-change-your-attitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/change-it-or-change-your-attitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Change It, or Change your Attitude"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIf you don\u2019t like something, change it.\u00a0 If you can\u2019t change it, change your attitude.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/strong> -Maya Angelou<\/p>\n

In life there are some things you can change but there are a whole lot of things you can\u2019t.\u00a0 And determining the difference between the two is a key factor in controlling your own happiness in life.\u00a0 Sometimes we trick ourselves into thinking we are a victim of circumstance, that there is nothing we can do.\u00a0 That is very, very rarely the truth.\u00a0 More often than not we actually can change things, it\u2019s just that when there is an ability to change it to Option A or Option B which are both valid, but we desperately want to change it to Option C which doesn\u2019t exist – rather than picking A or B we tell everyone else and ourselves that we just can\u2019t change it at all and therefore woe is us.\u00a0 We refuse to acknowledge and accept that Option C doesn\u2019t exist and isn\u2019t going to exist. We stop ourselves from moving forward at all.\u00a0 We are now voluntarily stuck and miserable.\u00a0 And until we recognize that we will continue to stay miserable.\u00a0 The reality is that we have to be smart enough to let go of Option C recognizing it was never really an option to begin with.\u00a0 We then have to choose from Option A or B and accept that one of these options will ultimately lead us to what we want, even if we can\u2019t see that yet.\u00a0 We have to have a little faith for the future and start moving that way.<\/p>\n

\u201cIncredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don\u2019t.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 -Steve Mariboli<\/p>\n

Nothing in life is worse than standing still.\u00a0 That always leads to moving backwards.\u00a0 Force yourself to keep moving forward. When there are circumstances that are making you unhappy stand back and evaluate what the realistic options are that exist for you. Don\u2019t allow yourself to get stuck pining for options that cannot happen.\u00a0 Then make a choice and keep moving ahead.\u00a0 But move ahead with an attitude of hope and enthusiasm for the future.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t always control your circumstances, but you can always control your choices and your attitude.\u00a0 Never let yourself forget that happiness is a choice – so choose it!<\/p>\n

~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIf you don\u2019t like something, change it.\u00a0 If you can\u2019t change it, change your attitude.\u201d\u00a0 -Maya Angelou In life there are some things you can change but there are a whole lot of things you can\u2019t.\u00a0 And determining the difference between the two is a key factor in controlling your own happiness in life.\u00a0 Sometimes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[174,46,251,91,504,1089,224,515,163,1025,1160,7,76,65,55,180,4740,53,545,1746,875,134,4737,27,112,4735,4734,4739,149,4738,4736,336],"class_list":["post-4876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anxiety","tag-attitude","tag-balance","tag-change","tag-choice","tag-circumstance","tag-confidence","tag-control","tag-courage","tag-discouraged","tag-encourage","tag-future","tag-goals","tag-gratitude","tag-happiness","tag-happy","tag-maya-angelou","tag-motivation","tag-move-forward","tag-optimistic","tag-options","tag-perspective","tag-pining","tag-self-confidence","tag-self-improvement","tag-stand-still","tag-standing-still","tag-steve-mariboli","tag-success","tag-take-control","tag-trick","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4877,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876\/revisions\/4877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}