Turning Attitude to Gratitude

Every day, something always upsets us Whether it is something small or large, it affects our feelings and may even impact how we react the rest of the day or how we do a certain thing in our lives, leaving us with an attitude. This attitude that we have is most likely negative to something that affects us, and I want to know why. Why do we let something affect how we feel and potentially alter our life? You’re upset with your job, you may have financial issues , or even home problems but why should we allow that to affect how we act towards people and in life? Sure, it upsets us but why do we allow it to impact our lives? Even if it impacts our lives for half a day, that’s half a day wasted on you being angry or sad behind something that isn’t worth your energy. Now, how do we turn this attitude into gratitude? It’s a really simple fix and we should all start to do it more, myself included. A piece of advice I’ve learned in my life is to remove myself for 5 minutes. I remove myself in situations where I’m upset and I know I’m likely to say something I don’t mean or do something to hurt someone unintentionally. Now if you hurt people with the intent of doing so, you got issues that this article probably won’t be able to help you with but as I remove myself, I take those 5 minutes to calm down; I could be listening to music, talking to myself or God, or just sitting there thinking. Doing this calms you down without you even knowing it, you’re recollecting yourself and making yourself forget about the situation at hand. After you have 100% calmed down and you know that you’re back to your normal self, be grateful. Be grateful that you were tested by someone or something and them upsetting you made you stronger. I know it sounds crazy but it’s true; when someone or something upsets you, your nerves and mindset is being tested. However, it’s solely up to you as to how you react or let it affect you. Like my mom tells my little sister, “Are you going to cry about it or are you going to boss up?” and that’s what I want you to ask yourself. You don’t always have to get revenge, take the high road and the next time someone does something that upsets you, take a deep breath and just move on. Don’t let 10 seconds of someone’s opinion ruin how you act for the day or how you feel because I can guarantee that the person or thing that upset you doesn’t care about how you feel or forgot that they even upset you. Don’t waste a day being upset or angry about something that isn’t going to get you through the gates of Heaven, live more and worry less.