Self-talk

"People don't just get upset.
They contribute to their upsetness."

- Albert Ellis

It's not the events in our lives that upset us. It's how we think about them. If something bad happens, we may complain and fear we'll never feel better again.

But someone else in the same situation might say, "Gee, that's too bad, but I know I can handle it." The same event, two different perspectives. We can't control many of the things that happen to us, but we can control how we react to them.

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*Regina gave me a book of positive quotations, one for each day of the year. It's called "The Daily Book of Positive Quotations" by Linda Picone.