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Embracing a positive perspective
The Mercury
|June 17, 2025
THE importance of point of view and attitude cannot be overstated. It influ- ences just about everything you do each day.
Decisions made at the beginning of the day, some simple and some more difficult and even painful, can set positive outcomes in motion. Here
are “healthy confessions” for the day if you care to use them as a starting point:
Just for today, I will begin with a clean slate.
This story is from the June 17, 2025 edition of The Mercury.
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