Attitude~ As you think is how you become.
Attitude.
Here in England, Ryanair has hit the headlines with even more restrictive onboard luggage allowance. Now a small handbag or a laptop case is the only free luggage.
For those of you unaware of Ryanair is a low-cost airline carrier.
Their approach to European flying is that as the journeys are usually no more than four hours, then treat it as a bus journey with no frills.
This is fine as long as you accept it for what it is.
Their advertised price to say Rome from London may well be as little as £19 [do your own conversion!]. But and it's a big but, that's just one way, if you want any luggage, or sit with your companions or even return to London it is all extra.
But hey, don't moan about it, if you don't like it, fly with another carrier or go by boat.
It is one of choice.
That simple phrase, "it isn't so much what happens to you, it's how you deal with it."
So how do you deal with the mindless questions at airport check-in and security. Do you get stressed out when you are singled out to take your shoes off. What's your attitude when after being hassled to board the plane, and it just sits there for another 20 minutes.
If it wasn't for terrorist we wouldn't have these problem. I for one prefer the inconvenience to being blown up!
In the summer my wife and I went to Budapest, we were sitting in the airport lounge playing cards. A good way to relieve the boredom of waiting for your flight.
We suddenly heard an announcement that our flight was boarding and would the last passengers go to the gate. We had got so carried away that we forgot to check the boarding time.
Anyway, we rushed up to the gate only to find a long queue still waiting to get on.
Well, at least we enjoyed our card game for longer.
This is the time to start remembering “Is there anything I can do to change the situation? If Yes then do it straight away, if No, then sit back and let it sort itself out.” There is no point in getting all stressed out over things beyond your control.
Just keep your blood pressure down and your stomach calm when faced with these circumstances that you have no control over.
Now when we got to Budapest we needed a different currency. Our great stalwart £ is not used by other European countries so we had to get used to Euros. You over in the states are so fortunate that you can travel from coast to coast on your vacations using the same currency all the time.
It takes a bit of time but I tend to judge the finances of a country (is it cheaper/more expensive than England), by the price of beer! I usually do this before I leave home so that I know if it is going to be a cheap or expensive holiday.
Fortunately Budapest beer (whilst inferior to English Ale) was slightly cheaper so....
I decided to write this because I have just read some reviews of the hotel we stayed in. Now we found it very good, with pleasant staff, a decent room and a good selection of food for breakfast. But the reviews, well here's a selection.
Avoid this hotel. Terrible smell in the room. No aircon. Staff completely clueless. Hugely overpriced. I borrowed the only iron and ironing board in the hotel and risked electric shock from the iron and decapitation from the ironing board!
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I was very disappointed. Very old fashioned rooms, artificial flowers everywhere, dirty carpet. The receptionist was very lazy and unhelpful. The waitresses the same. They charge too much for this quality.
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We stayed there in a group of 112 doctors travelling to East Europe for a conference. There were a huge amount of problems we faced..
- We people reached at around 10 in the night and it took the hotel 4 hrs to get everyone checked in, only to realize that there were no fans or AC's in the room.
- Reception person says kindly deposit all your passports here and we will give them back tomorrow. Only after a lot of discussion did he agree to scan them and give them back in the night only.
- Breakfast next day was very ordinary but services were horrible. Just to give an example, six boiled eggs would come at a time catering to 100 plus people and then you have to wait for 15 min. Everything would finish and take years to replenish.
WE never had these problems. I'm sure there are people who wherever they go immediately try to find fault. They are not satisfied until they find something.
Our aircon worked, had plenty of food at breakfast. I wonder if the other 111 doctors had the same reaction.
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As we think, so shall we become.
Attitudes are more important than facts. How you take it is more important than what happens to you. Attitude acts as a selective filter affecting perception, we choose to see the best or worst in any situation. Our thinking is more important than what we think about. How we think is our strangest secret.
If your goal is wealth, but your thinking is poverty-stricken, your attitude will cancel out the achievement of your goal. If your goal is health and you choose healthy thoughts, you will realise your goal. I know it goes against logic but attitudes beat facts every time.
"Our attitude determines our altitude".
We can alter our lives by altering the attitudes of our mind.