It’s encouraging to find other people writing about positive attitudes. The other day I read a blog post entitled, What is your Promise? The writer mentions Chad Hymas, who I have had the pleasure of hearing speak and meeting – and he is truly an inspiration.
Of course this got me thinking about what I promise to do in my life – what is my legacy? At what point in life do we start having this conversation with ourselves? It’s never too soon, really. The first thing that popped into my mind was, “lead by example.” (Those could be my three words.) That’s a hard thing to do on a consistent basis, since I’m human and I make plenty of mistakes. But I will certainly keep working on it, and maybe more and more times I’ll get it right.
I think the most important thing to me is to stay positive and to approach situations, people, and life from a positive angle. I think asking ourselves this question – what is your promise? – is the same thing as figuring out what motivates us. Once we know what motivates us, we can be inspired to get things done, to stay on track. The only slight difference is that our promise goes out to others, while motivation serves ourselves. In order to truly succeed, we need intrinsic motivation, in other words, taking care of our diabetes for ourselves, not for somebody else.
At any rate, what is the first thing you think of as your promise – what will be your legacy?