{"id":4880,"date":"2014-08-12T17:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T23:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=4880"},"modified":"2014-08-06T23:14:58","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T05:14:58","slug":"when-life-gives-you-lemonade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/when-life-gives-you-lemonade\/","title":{"rendered":"When life gives you lemonade"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhen life gives you lemonade, make lemons. Life will be all like \u201cWHAT?!?\u201d \u201d<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 – Phil Dunphy<\/p>\n

Love that quote. I realize it was a comedy quote from a television show but to me it\u2019s perfect \u2013 to me this quote represents taking charge of your life when things go wrong by not allowing hard things to get you down. \u00a0Take charge.\u00a0 Mix it up. Surprise people!<\/p>\n

When we take charge of our situation with the right attitude we can make almost anything better. After all,<\/p>\n

\u201cThings turn out best for people that make the best of the way things turn out.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0 – John Wooden<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a perfect example of someone making the best of the way things turn out:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen life gives you lemons, put them in your bra! It won\u2019t solve your problems, but the extra attention is nice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

See, there is always a way to turn a hard situation around.\u00a0 You may have to get creative to do it, but no doubt it can be done.\u00a0 And I believe that keeping a good sense of humor is one of the MOST effective ways to turn things around.\u00a0 When you are having a hard day and someone can make you laugh about it, it\u2019s like magic happens.\u00a0 When you laugh the entire world lightens around you.\u00a0 Your stress level drops and your attitude lifts.\u00a0 And the thing that seemed so miserable and hard suddenly seems a little less horrible.<\/p>\n

All the husbands out there would be wise to remember the humor trick.\u00a0 When my husband does something that makes me upset with him, if he can say something funny it is almost impossible for me to stay mad.<\/p>\n

In my company our best customer service people were the ones who could get the customer to laugh using good humor.\u00a0 We even put stand-up comedians as our music on hold system so the customers would be laughing while they waited for an agent to take their call.\u00a0 Often times their entire mood would change from upset to happy simply because the comedy on hold had made them laugh and the laughter minimized the problem they were upset about.<\/p>\n

When things go wrong don\u2019t allow yourself to get discouraged.\u00a0 Find the humor to laugh about it. Then take life’s lemons, throw them back, and go eat a chocolate bar \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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

\u201cWhen life gives you lemonade, make lemons. Life will be all like \u201cWHAT?!?\u201d \u201d\u00a0 – Phil Dunphy Love that quote. I realize it was a comedy quote from a television show but to me it\u2019s perfect \u2013 to me this quote represents taking charge of your life when things go wrong by not allowing hard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3730,"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":[1028,4756,1680,4759,2602,4760,1834,205,1025,1160,4752,55,180,1020,285,4755,181,849,87,2006,4753,4754,2007,4762,4750,4761,4749,4751,281,4757,4758,4763],"class_list":["post-4880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-attention","tag-bra","tag-chocolate","tag-comedians","tag-comedy","tag-comedy-on-hold","tag-creative","tag-customer-service","tag-discouraged","tag-encourage","tag-giggle","tag-happiness","tag-happy","tag-hardship","tag-humor","tag-john-wooden","tag-laugh","tag-laughing","tag-laughter","tag-lemonade","tag-lemons","tag-life-gives-you-lemonade","tag-life-gives-you-lemons","tag-minimize","tag-modern-family","tag-music-on-hold","tag-phil-dunphy","tag-sense-of-humor","tag-trials","tag-turn-around","tag-turn-it-around","tag-upset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880","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=4880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4881,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880\/revisions\/4881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}