BE POSITIVE

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."

I absolutely love this quote.  I have always been a positive person...seeing the glass half full rather than half empty.  I have also annoyed more than just a few people along the way with my attitude.  It seems that worriers don't like to be shown the positive side of things.  It messes with their brains or something.

I have always wondered just how much of our personalities are inherited through our gene pools.  My dad was a very positive, upbeat person who always said he wasn't stressed he was just a carrier.  He said he'd probably never get ulcers, just give em.  My mother was a worrier.  She was a self-schooled medical professional of the Reader's Digest School of Medicine.  She had you diagnosed before you ever set foot in a physician's office.  I guess I'm somewhere in the middle.  I tend not to worry about things I have no control over.  I fix what I can and move on.  But if worrying will solve my problem.....I'll get right on it.

I remember when the doctor told me I was having twins.  My first question was, "Is there anything I should be worried about."  He replied, "Nothing that worrying will change, just go home and take it easy."  Now, I got right on that "Take it easy" part and I didn't worry at all.  I delivered full-term twins weighing in at 6 lbs and 5 1/2 pounds so my strategy must have paid off.