Jake: The best advice I ever got from my grandfather, echoed by Tim Tebow

Someone asked me recently how I stay positive given everything going on in the world — especially living in Washington. The question caught me off guard. I’d never really thought about it, but the answer traces back to my grandpa.

This morning, Tim Tebow posted something on X that brought it all rushing back:

Attitude is a choice.
Gratitude is a discipline.
Bitterness is expensive.

Nobody accidentally has a great attitude.
Nobody stumbles into gratitude.
And nobody means to end up bitter, it just quietly moves in when you stop choosing something better.
Guard your peace like it…

— Tim Tebow (@TimTebow) May 11, 2026

“Attitude is a choice. Gratitude is a discipline. Bitterness is expensive.”

Hard to argue with that

Here’s the memory it unlocked: after my grandpa passed — an illness that took him from us too soon — my mom and her siblings were helping my grandma clean out his office. On his desk, they found a handwritten note. A list of his priorities for the year. Near the top: have a top attitude.

That note has become a Skorheim family mantra. One I’m trying to pass down to my own sons.

It sounds like a magic trick, but it isn’t. You can literally decide what kind of life you want by choosing your attitude every single day. When you have a good attitude, and bad things happen, they just somehow don’t hit as hard. The older I get, the clearer this becomes: You can’t control what comes your way, but you can control your response.

Thanks for the reminder, Tim. And thanks, grandpa. Again, not the same person.

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