The Choice, Part Two

"I will not sacrifice the Enterprise. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! Captain Jean-Luc Picard, "Star Trek: First Contact"

Yesterday I addressed the fact that we all have the ability to choose our attitude (and by extension, our outcome). I could choose to be angry and bitter about a few thngs, but I'm taking the alternative. Easier said than done, I know. You might have those days where your frustration threatens to overwhelm you, those days when it's very, very hard to maintain that positve attitude.
What then?
You could take a page from the Captain Picard playbook and draw a line in the sand. Use that anger and frustration, do a little mental aikido and turn it on its head. Turn it into determination that you won't take anymore crap, that this is the baseline moment where things turn around.
That little moment right there, that's a big victory for you. When you control your attitude you control your life... that's when you start to win and that's when the people and situations that are trying to get you down lose.
Simple as that.