What is the different between your good day and your bad day?
The different is your attitude! To maintain your good day you have to change your attitude from negative to positive.
Dennis Waitley’s book "The winner’s edge" wrote something about attitude.
Attitude.
It is the "advance man" of our true selves.
Its roots are inward but its fruit is outward.
It is our best friend or our worst enemy.
It is more honest and more consistent than our words.
It is an outward look based on past experiences.
It is a thing which draws people to us or repels them.
It is never content until it is expressed.
It is the librarian of our past.
It is the speaker of our present.
It is the prophet of our future.
Attitude is really about how a person is. That overflows into how he acts.
OUR ATTITUDE DETERMINES OUR APPROACH TO LIFE
Our attitude tells us what we expect from life.
OUR ATTITUDE DETERMINES OUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH PEOPLE
All of life is impacted by your relationships with people, yet establishing relationships is difficult. You can''t get along with some people, and you can''t make it without them. That''s why it is essential to build proper relationships with others in our crowded world.
The Stanford Research Institute says that the money you make in any endeavour is determined only 12.5 % by knowledge and 87.5% by your ability to deal with people.
87.5% people knowledge + 12.5% product knowledge = success
That is why Teddy Roosevelt said, "The most important single ingredient to the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people." And why John D. Rockefeller said, "I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun."
When the attitude we possess places others first and we see people as important, then our perspective will reflect their viewpoint, not ours. Until we walk in the other person''s shoes and see life through another''s eyes, we will be like the man who angrily jumped out of his car after a collision with another car. "Why don''t you people watch where you''re driving?" he shouted widely. "You''re the fourth car I''ve hit today!"
Usually the person who rises within an organization has a good attitude. The promotions did not give that individual an outstanding attitude, but an outstanding attitude resulted in promotions.
OFTEN OUR ATTITUDE IS THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SUCCESS AND FAILURE
History’s greatest achievements have been made by men who excelled only slightly over the masses of others in their fields. This could be called the principle of the slight edge. Many times that slight difference was attitude. The former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir underlined this truth in one of her interviews. She said, “All my country has is spirit. We don’t have petroleum dollars. We don’t have mines of great wealth in the ground. We don’t have the support of a worldwide public opinion that looks favourably on us. All Israel has is the spirit of its people. And if the peirit, even the United States of America cannot save us.”
Certainly aptitude is important to our success in life. Yet success or failure in any undertaking is caused more by mental attitude than by mere mental capacities.
OUR ATTITUDE CAN TURN OUR PROBLEMS INTO BLESSINGS
In Awake, My Heart, J. Sidlow Baxter wrote, “What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has difficulty and every difficulty has an opportunity.”
When confronted with a difficult situation, a person with an outstanding attitude makes the best of it while he gets the worst of it. Life can be likened to a grindstone. Whether it grinds you down or polishes you depends upon what you are made of.
WHAT SHAPES A PERSON’S ATTITUDE? Attitudes aren’t shaped in a vacuum. People are born with certain characteristics, and those impact their attitudes. But many other factors play an even grater role in people’s lives and in the formation of their attitudes. While these factors continually impact people, in general, they make the greatest impression during the following times of life:
STAGES FACTORS
PRE-BIRTH: Inherit personality/temperament
BIRTH: Environment
Ages 1-6: Word expression
Adult acceptance / affirmation
Ages 6 – 10: Self-image
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