Principal of Circumstances
I’m an advocate of constant self improvement… I have always believed that it’s not what happens to you, it’s how you deal with it, and I have never really fallen into the grouping of circumstance (well lets be honest here, I don’t really fall into any grouping except my own, but I digress..).
There is a wonderful woman out there to thank for the solidification of this basic principal, someone that I am very grateful to have had the privlidge of working with, te tragic part to this, is that she doesn’t even know how much of a positive impact she (and this principal) has had on my life. Yvonne Donelly was my Director and Mentor while I was the programming instructor and head of the programming faculty for CDI College of Business and Technology. She gave me this little gold card that had several motivational quotes on it… I used to carry in my wallet, I in turn passed it along to someone else that I thought at the time would benefit from it’s message.
It went something like this … “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” … Lou Holtz – “Its not that the circumstances have gotten you where you are, the successful people will figure out what circumstances they work best with, and then go out to create them.” – Unknown
I wanted to post a thank you to Yvonne… Wherever you are, may the sun be shining on your world.
Tags: Awesomness, Goals, Happiness
