[shareable cite=”Charles R. Swindoll”]We spend more of our time concentrating and fretting over the things that can’t be changed than we do giving attention to the one that we can change, our choice of attitude.[/shareable]

Attitude, it seems, is the one choice we can make each day that will have the most impact. But just because it is a choice within our reach and ability, that doesn’t mean we will make it purposefully. If you are anything like me you can drift into auto-pilot when it comes to your attitude. Unless I resolve to make my first waking thought positive and grateful – to play offense if you will – Satan will offer me a failure or frustration to chew on. If I fall for that, I will be playing defense for the rest of the day. And I have handed over way too many of my days that way!

Going into 2017, I am completing some goal and “why” homework for our business coach. Page 1 in his workbook features a quote on Attitude attributed to Charles Swindoll – an evangelical Christian leader which whom I am familiar. So, being the internet quote skeptic that I am, I googled “attitude + Charles Swindoll” to see what came up. Lots of images with the same text citing Charles Swindoll. Lots of creative fonts and frames and backgrounds. But I was looking for Charles’ personal blog or website as confirmation and I could not find a direct connection.

What I DID find was a couple of blog posts on attitude from Charles Swindoll that generally convey the same message on the subject of attitude.

• The Importance of Attitude
• The Value of a Positive Attitude

Here’s the Quote

[shareable cite=”Charles R. Swindoll”]Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitude toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it. I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there’s no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.[/shareable]