The Big A: Attitude
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The Big A: Attitude

You may need to change your attitude and not even know it.

Alexis Eanes
Jan 20, 2018
Georgia Southern University
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I'm not sure about all of you, but both 2016 and 2017 were (ahem) challenging years. I'm tired of getting to the end of a year and exclaiming how awful it was. I stopped making New Year's resolutions a few years ago, but there are some things I've decided to do differently in this year and in the years to come.

The main thing that I'm going to differently is changing my attitude. Whenever I used to think about having a bad attitude, I would think about a disrespectful teenager rolling their eyes at their parents. I thought one simply grew out of a bad attitude, but it simply isn't so. There are so many ways someone can have a bad attitude, and in my case, I was just negative about life. I had the "woe is me attitude" that honestly kept me from so much in 2016 and in 2017.

Whenever a minor bad thing happened I would sulk, and pout, and yes this is coming from a soon-to-be 20-year-old woman.

In some way, my attitude has gotten worse since entering college. It took my mother pointing it out for me to realize how bad my attitude was. Then, of course, there was denial. Then through talking with the people closest to me as well as an enlightening sermon at church, I realized my negative outlook on life was really crippling me from reaching my potential.

After coming to terms with one of my biggest problems I began to reflect on what I needed to do differently. I first needed to realize everything that happens to be me isn't necessarily a punishment, but a challenge that I need to go through in order to produce something amazing ( big thank you to my minister for helping me realize that).

Secondly, I needed to put that thinking into action. So when I started to get annoyed at someone, I took a moment and instead of getting angry with them, I would realize how grateful I was to have them. When God decides to give me a bigger challenge in my life, I will come at it from a completely different attitude towards it, and welcome it because I know I will be a better person because of it.

Here's to a prosperous 2018, and to changing the big A, Attitude.

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