Today’s Quote Of The Day:
Our response to a job is what stresses us out, not the job itself.
How true is this. No matter what we do or what happens in life, it is our attitude towards something that will make or break us.
When I was younger, I hated to change poopy pants. It got to where, when I babysat, I would only babysit older kids because I just couldn’t handle the poopy diapers.
Fast forward many years and along came my first grandchild. I didn’t give a second thought to changing his diaper. He was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, even with his messy pants.
I was still doing the same job but my attitude about the job was so different. Not only was there no stress but it was even a pleasure. 
photo by: xtheowl
I think it’s not only the attitude, but doing something a certain way because we’ve gotten used to it. I am trying to cut expenses and save as much as possible. But I really have to work at making myself hang out the clothes and wash the dishes by hand. these are things my grandmothers would have done without thinking, but I am so spoiled! I have to look for ways to make it not so much of a chore. Like hanging clothes on the bathroom shower rod or on a rod in out garage, even though I have a backyard line. I think just being out in the heat is what discourages me.
We just get so pulled into spending money because it is so easy. We think it’s easier to go to McDonalds that make an easy meal at home. Maybe I am not sticking to the subject of attitude that you are speaking of, but it’s just my thoughts.
Rachel, here is a trick to keep hanging the clothes out on a line I used when hanging clothes with a cranky baby in tow.
An exercise we used to do in grade school. It is a song that you can sing or say to what ever tune you think fits it.
Bend and stretch reach for the sky, stand on tippy toe oh so high.
I would sing it when ray was in his chair out in the sun. He loved it and as he got older he would start to mimic the exercise. Then when he got older still he would pick up the next item and hand it to me while singing bend and stretch then I was supposed to sing reach for the sky then he would hand me a clothes pin and say stand on tippy toe and the final was together oh so high.
Just made it into a game for him and made me laugh as we did it.
Still to this day sing that song if I am doing something with a lot of repetition of bending down and reaching up like folding clothes or mopping the floor as I stretch with the mop.
have a nice day.
There is a Catholic saying “Offer it Up” when you are doing something you don’t like, or don’t feel like doing. You are “offering up” to Heaven the sacrifice to make amends in some small way for all the times you hurt people, or maybe did something you shouldn’t have done, as a little way of correcting your attitude, so you grow in holiness, and do sacrifical things like Jesus did.
Thank you for the reminder:)