There is a phrase that I often repeat to myself when I’m feeling frustrated: Life is ten percent what is given to you and ninety percent what you make of it. A family friend once shared this with my dad, and since it has become our sort of unofficial family motto.
Granted, sometimes the ten percent you’re given is nothing but a pile of crap. That’s ok. If you can turn that pile into a sculpture, you’ve done all right.The motto is a lesson on attitude: work with what you’ve got and make the best of it (even if it’s crap). Only you control your attitude, and, ninety percent of the time, that’s the only thing you can control, so stay positive.
Granted, sometimes the ten percent you’re given is nothing but a pile of crap. That’s ok. If you can turn that pile into a sculpture, you’ve done all right.The motto is a lesson on attitude: work with what you’ve got and make the best of it (even if it’s crap). Only you control your attitude, and, ninety percent of the time, that’s the only thing you can control, so stay positive.
We are presented with unfavorable conditions all the time—bad coaches, bad bosses, bad professors, bad service reps—you name it. But you can’t control irrational people (let alone understand them) so why dwell on it? Focus on your reality and what you do have power over; you’ll be surprised at what you can build out of a disappointing pile of shit.
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