the importance of Body Glide on your Attitude

I discovered Body Glide last year during my marathon training.  I came to realize quickly how important this can be when you need run 6+ miles and want to avoid blisters in all sorts of places beyond your feet.  Trust me when I say a heart monitor can cause the mother of all blisters.

As I ran my miles this am on the treadmill  I was annoyed I forgot to pack my mighty stick of body glide. I did knock out 4 miles, but ended up with a blister, but I can't tell you where.

Then as my day progressed I found myself wishing I had body glide for all of me.   Like a ultra layer that keeps all of the annoyances of the day from really bugging me and festering into a blister.  How cool would that be if someone could invent a pill that gave you that state of mind to not get annoyed and with no side effect on your brain allowing you to make rational decisions? 

I realize that all that wishing can be redirected to my attitude and my choice of how I elect to respond to everyday annoyances.  I can't stop the fact that the blister is going to manifest itself, but I can choose how much I want to focus on it, and bitch and moan about it.

A good quote that recaps this is by Charles R. Swindoll.  “The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.”

So I have a bandaid on my booboo on my boo**, and pressed the reset button on my attitude.