Just for today
The next time you’re off to work, dreading the day ahead, stop yourself. Decide, just for one day, to think in a whole new way. Try these affirmations- they just might change the way you feel about what it is that you do.
• Just for today, I will be as friendly as can be to the people I work with. I am going to treat them as if they were responsible for keeping me in my job and be grateful they are there.
• Just for today, I won’t assume my job is to be chief critic. I will try to see the good in every situation and will look for something to praise in every person who works with me.
• Just for today, if I correct someone, I will do it with as much good humor and self-restraint as if I were the one being corrected.
• Just for today, I am not going to insist that everything I do be perfect. I am not going to try to break any speed records. I will do what’s in front of me with competence, not painful compulsion.
• Just for today, I will assume that I have adequate competence for my tasks. I will not endlessly question whether I really deserve my title and my pay.
• Just for today, I will be grateful I live in a society and time in which I don’t have to do backbreaking work in horrible circumstances. And I will be thankful I work in a free country where no one is forcing me to work
• Just for today, I will feel happy I am at work, alive and well, and not in a combat trench or in a hospital awaiting surgery.
• Just for today, I will not have any expectations about how I should be treated. I will not compare my pay or status with anyone else. I will just be glad that I am who I am.
• Just for today, I will not worry about “what’s in it for me.” I will think only about what I can do to help out in every situation.
• Just for today, when I leave work, I will not dwell on how much I did or did not get done. Instead, I will look forward to the evening, and be thankful for whatever I accomplished.
These thoughts are not complex, and did not come from
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