Don’t Let Ants Ruin Your Picnic
Way back in 1902, the author James Allen, one of the very first motivational authors wrote:
“As masters of our own thoughts we are makers of ourselves, shapers and authors of our environment.”
Did you ever wake up just a little down, and as you are preparing for an outing you start to have one negative thought after another? If it continues for long, you might even decide to skip that fall picnic you have been planning to go to for weeks. You think about last week and feel sad about things that happened—you find yourself suddenly pessimistic and anxious about what tomorrow will bring—and in a flash you realize that today, you just don’t like anything. Well, here’s a good-news flash, it’s not you that’s the problem!