A short story on positive attitude and words
Check how the words we say help to shape our attitudes and experiences, through this real life story...
When I was in my twenties I went out once to have dinner with my husband and a friend of both. We wanted to go to a restaurant where they served the best burgers in town. The restaurant was barely a hundred meters away from a football stadium.
As we walked towards the restaurant, we noticed more and more people walking in the same direction we were going. My husband said, "I hope there isn't a football match today!"
It turned out that there was in fact a football match starting shortly. This meant that we would probably not find a table at the restaurant, since it was quite a small place, and quite convenient for anyone to have a burger on-the-go.
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Conscious of the power of our words, my husband and I decided to express what we DID want. "We will have a table, in a nice spot, and we will have it straight away", we said believing that this would be the case (why not).
When we arrived at the restaurant, there was only one table available, next to the window, in one of the two nicest spots of the restaurant. Needless to say, we took the table and marvelled at how we had had exactly what we had chosen to put into words.