Be Optimistic

...this is my new goal. To be optimistic...always. Yesterday I found myself thinking about how much people bug me. I mean...lots of people. Fake people, rude people, jerks that can't drive...those kind of people. Then by the end of the day, I realized that I was just being rude by thinking those thoughts about those people that I don't even know, and I was being hypocritical. Mark is CONSTANTLY making up excuses for people. Like when someone cuts me off or is on my tail or driving slow and I make some comment about it, he says, "well maybe they are having a bad day" or something along those lines. It used to bug me...a lot. Until now. Mark is such a good example to me, and I need to try to be more like him. I have just been stubborn and didn't want to think anything of people other than they are rude and need to grow up and get a life. Seriously, I am constantly thinking this about people. And it needs to STOP! I need to be more like my amazing husband, and "be optimistic". So even though the new year hasn't started yet, that is my goal for 2011, starting now.

And who better to remind me how to "be optimistic" than the one and only Shirley Temple? She has been making me happy since I was a little girl. Thank you Shirley Temple, for reminding me how to "be optimistic".