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Stephen C. Lundin, Ph.D,

Harry Paul and John Christensen

Year 2000

ISBN 978-0-340-81980-7

Choose Your Attitude

There is always a choice about the way you do your work, even if then is not a choice about the work itself.

Lonnie: “….You can always quit your job, and so in that sense you have a choice about the work you do. But it might not be a smart thing to do given your responsibilities and other factors. That’s what I mean by choice. On the other hand, you always have a choice about the attitude you bring to the Job.”

…You choose the attitude you bring to work each day. That choice determines the way you are at work. As long as you are here, why not choose to be world famous rather than ordinary ? It seems so simple.

…Life was tough, and I responded in kind – I was tough. Then when we decided to create a different kind of fish market, I resisted the nation that I could choose how I lived each day. I had too much invested in being a victim.

…I don’t believe that companies are necessarily prisons, but sometimes we make prisons of them by the way we choose to work there. I have created a prison and the walls are my own lack of faith in myself.

Life is too precious to spend any time at all, much less half of my waking hours, in a toxic energy dump. I don’t want to live like that , and I am sure my associates will fee the same way once they have a recognizable choice…Recent events have shaken my faith in myself and taking the necessary risks could help me renew my faith. The fact is that the risk of doing nothing is probably greater than the risk of acting.

Most of us are uncomfortable thinking of ourselves as artists…But each of us is an artist….with every choice, every day, you are creating a unique work of art. Something that only you can do…The reason you were born was to leave your own indelible mark on the world. This is your authenticity…Respect your creative urges….step out in faith…you will discover your choices are as authentic as you are. What is more, you will discover that your life is all it was meant to be : a joyous sonnet of thanksgiving.