Life's little annoyances

Monday, November 26, 2007

Life's little annoyances
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Don't let a relatively small setback ruin an otherwise
beautiful day. Choose instead to take it in stride and
quickly get back to being positive, productive and
effective.

Don't waste your time being outraged or offended by someone
else's careless, inconsiderate remark or gesture. Use the
opportunity to strengthen your valuable sense of patience,
and move on ahead to something that truly matters.

Life's little annoyances can quickly add up to have a big
negative and destructive impact if you let them.
Fortunately, you don't have to let them.

Instead, you can choose to let them go. You can decide to
see the small, relatively meaningless annoyances for what
they are, and move quickly beyond them.

Do you really want your attitude to be held hostage by rude,
careless, inconsiderate people or random events beyond your
control? Of course not, because within you is a positive
purpose that is big and beautiful and filled with real
meaning.

Each time one of life's little annoyances comes along, let
it just keep on going right past you until it fades away
into its own insignificance. You have plenty of much more
positive and valuable things upon which to focus your
attention.

Ralph Marston