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From The October Cover

THINK YES! By Linda Sauget
PP Media Buzz PP Choosing Your Attitude
Femme Fatales Of The Roaring In a study of job satisfaction among hospital janitors, the Yale

Twenties — By Darwin Porter University School of Management researched the difference between
high job satisfaction and low satisfaction.

The callow youths of Generation Z can When they asked the janitors what they did at work, those with low
be highly critical of the forebears of today’s job satisfaction said they mopped floors. Those with high job satisfac-
Baby Boomers, faulting them on civil rights tion said they helped patients heal.
The study concluded that satisfaction was related to how the janitors
and social inequities. Yet during World War saw their role: were they performing a task or making a contribution?
II, millions of them sacrificed their lives to Their answers also show another thing: attitude. Two people mop-
prevent a Fascist takeover of the planet. ping floors can feel pride or shame, satisfaction or dissatisfaction.
That heroism earned them the title of “The Same job, different attitude.
Greatest Generation.” Zig Ziglar says, “You cannot tailor-make the situations in life, but you
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The first half of the 20 Century witnessed can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.”
the birth of our parents and grandparents It is easy to feel overwhelmed by challenges. They are real! The
and the greatest cultural flowering in histo- Coronavirus is difficult. Dealing with illness is difficult. Problems are
ry. Thousands of formidable women, rejecting their parents’ Victorian challenging.
restrictions, emerged on or behind the scene in pursuit of recogni- Having a positive attitude does not make these difficulties go away. It
tion, power and glory. Colossally memorable personalities—many of is not magical thinking. But a positive attitude does allow us to manage
things in a constructive way. It moves us from being overwhelmed to
them women—dominated every field of artistic endeavor: Images of being in charge.
Greta Garbo and Nazimova appeared everywhere onscreen; Ernest Our attitudes are a choice.
Hemingway and his alter ego and archrival Gertrude Stein prevailed in Michael J. Fox, who suffers with Parkinson’s disease, says, “I have
literature; Picasso altered the definition of painting; Caruso changed the no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson’s. I have nothing but
face of opera forever; Nijinsky interpreted ballet in ways that thrilled choices about how I react to it.”
sexually repressed dance fans; and Isadora Duncan re-defined the basic Every day we have an opportunity to choose contentment or agita-
H H tion, satisfaction or dissatisfaction, regardless of our circumstances.
See AND hear Darwin Porter every month on Zoomertimes TV. Sometimes the trick is remembering that we have
Tune in on YouTube (search zoomertimes TV), on Facebook. a choice.
H com/Boomertimes, or on BoomerTimesFL.com H In all things, we can choose our
tenets of movement. Meanwhile, about a dozen brilliant, highly intuitive attitude.
Linda Sauget is the author of “If You
women became heralded as the greatest actresses of all time. At least Think It”...and lives in Ft. Lauderdale. Linda
five of them shared sexual or emotional intimacies with Mercedes de is also available for speaking engagements.
Acosta, who wasn’t shy about discussing her associations with them. Please email her at LSauget99@aol.com.
They included Sarah Bernhardt in France and Eleonora Duse in Italy. Linda Sauget To purchase a copy of Linda’s book, go
In America, she took up with Eva Le Gallienne, Ethel Barrymore, Hope to: www.IfYouThinkIt.com.
Williams, Tallulah Bankhead, and Katharine Cornell—each a lioness of I want to be like a caterpillar.
the stage with egos to match.
Times since then have radically changed: Although there are thou- Eat a lot. Sleep for awhile.
sands of men and women immersed in those art forms today, the
concept of cinematic “gods and goddesses” has gone with the wind. Wake up beautiful.
To read this entire article, go to BoomerTimesFL.com.
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