Joan wrote:
> I have found that happiness comes when anger, intimidation and
> hopelessness are replaced by compassion, charity and humility based
> on the Golden Rule and the Serenity Prayer. ... having a very
> positive and enthusiastic attitude every minute of every day which
> sets the finest example for all.... It's your choice and no one can
> take that away from you.
Gary Sherling wrote:
> Well said...it's not what happens to us that matters, it's how we
> respond to what happens to us. It's a big different. We are in
> control of how we respond to every day...we decide whether we are
> going to have a terrible day or a great day! I really like how Les
> Brown says: "Are you going to let someone else's vision of you become
> your reality?"
I think I joined this list in April, or perhaps early May, and this is the first
message/response that has made me nervous.
It focuses too much on PMA (Positive Mental Attitude). There are times when we
must be "negative" if we are to effect constructive change.
The American colonists certainly didn't solve their problems through PMA; in fact, the
colonists became so aggravated that they went to war. The positive attitude came
out through their belief in their own ideas, and their ability to create a form of
government unsurpassed in the chronicles of history.
Today there are many corporations that take advantage of people, treat people as
something less than human, and who embrace a philosophy that implicitly states that
the employees are less intelligent than their managers, and therefore must be told
what to do.
I don't see how a PMA will help change this fundamental problem. If anything, such
an attitude will only perpetuate this philosophy.
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