Episode 212, We have 90% control over this!

Create Sales meetings in minutes. Lisa Thal is an Author, Speaker, and Business Coach. She has over 36 years of marketing, sales, and leadership experience. She wrote the book "Three Word Meetings."  Lisa coaches leaders on creating sales and business meetings with fun and interesting 3-word topics to create a conversation and inspire your sales team.

 

Episode 212: What we have 90% control over when reacting to a challenge. This weeks three words, Attitude is Everything!

 

Last week was a tough week. My brother-in-law, Herb, passed away unexpectedly. Two weekends earlier, we had a family pool swimming, laughing, and enjoying each other. Then, about a week later, he passed away unexpectedly. 

 

I had the privilege and honor to speak at his service on behalf of the family about this great man - Herb Birkenhauer. 

 

Herb was a great son, brother, brother-in-law, Uncle, Grandfather, Father, Friend, and Husband for 43 years. He also was a great teacher!

 

A teacher on how to live Life!  

 

I shared the story of a little note that hung on his refrigerator as a reminder and guide on how he lived his Life every day, even when facing Cancer! 

 

This little note centered around one word: how Herb lived. One word that Herb's family believes defined how he approached each day is ATTITUDE!

 

It's easy to have a great attitude when things are going great. 

But what about those hard days? 

How about those dark days?

How is your Attitude in those moments? 

This was his secret weapon to get through those hard days. Herb never complained, but he was there to listen and encourage others to adopt the same positive Attitude. 

 

He wanted to help others. Just a few weeks ago, my nephew Adam told me that his mom, Carol, asked him to replace a chimney cap on the roof. When Adam showed up, Herb had already climbed up on the top and fixed it, saying to Adam, in his sweet way, Let's keep this between us!

 

Herb was here for many reasons, and one I believe in my heart was to teach us how we approach our days, especially those challenging moments. Perhaps we can use it to guide our lives and business. We can learn to react, learn, and grow from every situation.

 

Here is what Herb read every morning -  Attitude from Charles Swindoll.

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think, say or do.  It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company, a church, a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.  We cannot change the past, we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable.  The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.  I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you, we are in charge of our attitude!

 

One word we all have control over when facing those challenging moments - is our Attitude! 

Remembering, Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% how you react.

 

The world was a better place because of Herb!

 

 

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