{"id":1743,"date":"2015-03-10T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/whats-your-perspective\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:02:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:02:37","slug":"whats-your-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=1743","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s YOUR Perspective?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Perspective2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Perspective2.jpg\" height=\"262\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Day 68 of Photo Inspirations &#8212; What&#8217;s YOUR Perspective?<br \/>\nWhile my Texas grandchildren were here, they practiced the speeches that they&#8217;ll be giving at their Speech &amp; Debate Competition. &nbsp;Alexia&#8217;s speech includes this story on &#8220;perspective&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>There was family that had two twin boys; one was an eternal optimist, the other a doom and gloom pessimist. The parents took the boys for an assessment &#8212; to find out why such drastic difference.<\/p>\n<p>They put the pessimist boy in a room with all the toys you can imagine. &nbsp; After a few minutes, the pessimist was crying bitterly. &nbsp; &#8220;Why are you crying?&#8221; the doctor asked. &#8220;There&#8217;s so many toys here, I don&#8217;t know which one to play with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The optimist&#8217;s room was loaded with horse manure. &nbsp;After a few minutes, the optimist twin was dancing for joy and kicking up the pile of manure. &#8220;What are you so happy about?&#8221; the doctor asked. To which the optimist twin replied, &#8220;With all this manure, there&#8217;s got to be a pony in here somewhere!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>It really is all about perspective. &nbsp;And it really is about our attitude and outlook. &nbsp;When we look in the mirror &#8212; do we see a scrawny, sickly cat, or do we see a strong, courageous, powerful lion? &nbsp;Do we look at the glass half empty, or half full? &nbsp;Do we look for the problems, or do we look for the blessings? &nbsp; Do we look at defeat and disappointment as the end-all or do we always look at EVERYTHING that comes our way as &#8220;ALL THINGS work together for good to those who love God and are the called according to His purpose.&#8221; &nbsp;Romans 8:28.<\/p>\n<p>It may seem having this positive attitude in a negative world can be an almost daunting task, but I promise you &#8212; it has been the single most effect tool in my life to live free of worry, fear, and negativity. &nbsp;I highly recommend it as a way of life. My perspective is that strong, powerful LION! How about yours?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 68 of Photo Inspirations &#8212; What&#8217;s YOUR Perspective? While my Texas grandchildren were here, they practiced the speeches that they&#8217;ll be giving at their Speech &amp; Debate Competition. &nbsp;Alexia&#8217;s speech includes this story on &#8220;perspective&#8221;. There was family that had two twin boys; one was an eternal optimist, the other a doom and gloom&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3892,6112,10543,2451,10544,10545,8039,378,7018],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-all-things-work-together","tag-negative","tag-optimist","tag-perspective","tag-pessimist","tag-pony-in-here","tag-positive-attitude","tag-romans-828","tag-way-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3397,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions\/3397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}