Attitude

I always hear people say "Attitude is everything." When I hear that I usually just think, yeah yeah whatever. Probably because at those times my attitude is a bad one and I don't really want to hear what that person is saying. In church today, my pastor told a story of three bricklayers working on rebuilding Christopher Wren's St. Paul Cathedral. The first bricklayer was asked what he was doing and replied "I'm laying brick for 10 hours a day." The second bricklayer was asked the same question and replied "I'm laying brick to make money." Then the third bricklayer was asked the same question, to which he replied "I'm building one of the great structures in this world for the Almighty." So what does this mean? The one bricklayer that had a good attitude was enjoying his work, even though he was doing the same thing as the other bricklayers. His attitude made life more enjoyable and he was able to have fun when he was at work. This made me think about all the things that I do each day. There are so many tasks that I "have-to" do during the day. What if I changed my attitude and made these "have-to" tasks into "get-to" tasks? What would my life look like if I just changed my attitude? I wonder what my impact would be on those around me. This is one goal that I want to try to achieve in the next few weeks and continue on into the future. I challenge everyone to look at their own attitudes and determine what tasks are ones that we take for granted each day. Try to change one of these tasks from a "have-to" into a "get-to" and see what happens.