What fills our cup?

I LOVE THIS ANALOGY!

Another deep dive uncovers more pearls of wisdom! A large part of my affinity for this analogy centers around my long-held belief that ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING! For years I have had a quote from Lou Holtz, former Notre Dame FB coach, as my laptop wallpaper photo to serve as a daily reminder that we are the sole determiner of our mental state. 

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you choose to react!

Holtz didn't write his little gem, but he certainly made it more famous, and it struck a chord with me that has endured the bulk of my adult life. Interpretation being the key, for me the quote urges a glass-half-full attitude with a heaping helping of responsibility. IMHO, the key to our mental health is controlling how we react to the inevitable ebb and flow of our journey from cradle to grave.

It's NOT easy, but it's vital that we acknowledge ownership.

Here's the analogy:
You are holding a cup of coffee when someone comes along and bumps into you or shakes your arm, making you spill your coffee everywhere. Why did you spill the coffee? Because someone bumped into you?

Wrong answer.

You spilled the coffee because there was coffee in your cup. Had there been tea in the cup, you would have spilled tea. Whatever is inside the cup is what will spill out. Therefore, when life comes along and shakes you ... which WILL happen ... whatever is inside you will come out. It's easy to fake it, until you get rattled.

So we have to ask ourselves,“What's in my cup?"

When life gets tough, what spills over? 

Joy, gratitude, peace and humility? 

Anger, bitterness, victim mentality and quitting-tendencies? 

Life provides the cup, YOU choose how to fill it.

Today let's work towards filling our cups with gratitude, forgiveness, joy, words of affirmation, resilience, positivity ...

and kindness

and gentleness ...

and love for others.

Source: Austin Tang

What you choose to fill your personal cup with makes all the difference in the world! It's 100% your responsibility to decide, regardless of what others might say, and furthermore, when Life jostles you ... and it will ... YOU and you alone are responsible for what spills out.

Let that sink in.

Peace.