Glass half full Vs glass half empty

*AFRESH NEW ATTITUDE*

These couple moved into a new neighborhood, one morning while they were eating breakfast, the lady looked out the window and saw her neighbor hanging the wash on the line to dry. She noticed the wash was so dirty and so dingy, she said to her husband; " _That neighbor doesn't know how to wash, the clothes ain't clean, she must have not used detergent."_

Week after week she looked out the window, saw the clothes and made the same comments how dirty the laundry was.

One morning she looked out the window and the clothes were as clean and bright as could be, she couldn't believe it! She called the husband in and said, _"look, she finally learned how to wash. I wonder what happened?"_
The  husband smiled and said; _*" Honey, I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows."*

The problem wasn't the neighbor's laundry was so dirty, the problem was the window the lady was looking out was not clean. *Many times, how dirty our neighbor's clothes are depends on how clean our window is!*

The scripture says to the pure all things are pure and if you always finding fault, complaining about the traffic, critical of your spouse: May I suggest your window is dirty. The problem is not external, it's internal,  you are looking through a tainted filter. At some point we have to look at the mirror  and say may be I am the one who needs to change, may be I have developed a habit of seeing what's wrong rather than what's right, may be I have trained myself to be negative, disrespectful, hard to get along with.

That's why it so important every morning to put up this new attitude: *"I am excited about this day, I don't have to go to work, I get to go to work, I am grateful for this job, I am not focusing on what's wrong. LORD, I want to thank you for what's right in my life!"*
You know what you are doing? You are cleaning your  windows.

Joel Osteen