Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. - Mother Teresa
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. - Friedrich Nietzsche
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. - Kahlil Gibran
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Article 8c - ATTITUDE (3)
Attitude (3) - continued by Tracy Brinkman of Brinkmann and Associates
There are lots more reasons why you CAN have your dreams and goals then there are why you cannot. Go after them. Keep your attitude one of cheerful expectance. Work at it and you will get them. As this happens you will reach new levels that will enable you to accomplish more. When you stand in the middle of the desert, you can see only to the first sand dune. However, once you reached that dune, you can see beyond it. Set your goal for that first dune and once you attain it - you will be able to see the second and possibly even beyond. Gerta said, “Before you can do something – you must be something.” Your attitude will enable you to be something; thus, your attitude can empower you to do something!
Tips for getting and keeping a good attitude:
1. Since our minds can only hold one thought at a time, make your thoughts constructive and positive. Look for the best in people and ideas.
2. Do not waste time talking about your problems to people who cannot solve them! It will not help you and it cannot help anyone else.
3. Keep an attitude of confidence, of one who knows where they are headed. You will find all sorts of good things will come your way to get you there.
4. Lastly, treat everyone like the most important person on earth.
Do this for the next week – treat every person with whom you have contact with as if they were the most important people in the world. One reason to do this is that as far as they are concerned they are the most important people on earth. Another reason is cause that is how we should treat one another. Stop avoiding eye contact as you pass fellow workers in the hallway, look up and say ‘Hello!’ Finally, as you treat people in this manner you are forming a habit. With this habit, you will begin to notice a change: irritations that use to get to you no longer do. You will see that you are on the road to your goals and the ease and comfort of the ride will surprise you. You will find yourself doing more & doing it in less time because you have a positive attitude about doing it. You find yourself receptive to opportunities that would have eluded you if your negative attitude were still infecting your senses.
Tips for getting and keeping a good attitude:
1. Since our minds can only hold one thought at a time, make your thoughts constructive and positive. Look for the best in people and ideas.
2. Do not waste time talking about your problems to people who cannot solve them! It will not help you and it cannot help anyone else.
3. Keep an attitude of confidence, of one who knows where they are headed. You will find all sorts of good things will come your way to get you there.
4. Lastly, treat everyone like the most important person on earth.
Do this for the next week – treat every person with whom you have contact with as if they were the most important people in the world. One reason to do this is that as far as they are concerned they are the most important people on earth. Another reason is cause that is how we should treat one another. Stop avoiding eye contact as you pass fellow workers in the hallway, look up and say ‘Hello!’ Finally, as you treat people in this manner you are forming a habit. With this habit, you will begin to notice a change: irritations that use to get to you no longer do. You will see that you are on the road to your goals and the ease and comfort of the ride will surprise you. You will find yourself doing more & doing it in less time because you have a positive attitude about doing it. You find yourself receptive to opportunities that would have eluded you if your negative attitude were still infecting your senses.
Remember by having a positive/constructive attitude you have placed yourself amongst the top 5% of the people in the world! Now that is good company!
Article 8b - ATTITUDE (2)
Attitude (2) - continued by Tracy Brinkman of Brinkmann and Associates
We are responsible for our own lives, we are where we are because of choices we made (cause and affect) during the course of our life. If we want to be somewhere else in our life we need to make the choices that will move us there – the starting choice would be the choice of changing our attitude. You get back what you put out. As soon as we begin to change, the world will begin to reflect those changes – immediately.
Think about this for a moment: If you are the type of person that has a good attitude on the norm, and one day you come into work and are emotionally feeling down. What is one of the first questions you are asked? That is right! What’s wrong? People quickly see a change and react to it. The same will work in the opposite direction. If you normally carry a negative or defensive attitude, your changing that attitude will have immediate impact on how the world perceives and reacts to you.
So as you shape and mold your life whether personal or professional, know that it is further detailed and textured by your habitual attitude. Many people start their day in a neutral attitude. This is unfortunate. For these people are usually moved into the day’s attitude by the first stimulus they encounter – good or bad. These attitudinal chameleons crawl through their day changing the color of their cheer or discontent to that of their environment. Attitudinal chameleons are a reason why we MUST control our attitudes ensuring they are excellent. So that we do not become one ourselves.It was once said, “If you think you can or if you think you can’t…. You are right!” This is very true for if your attitude is one of “I cannot”, then you are beat before the run has even begun. Think I cannot get the job and you may as well not even go to the interview. Think I cannot reach this goal and it will always be unreachable. Think I cannot complete this project and there it will sit forever half done. Jessie Jackson has taken quotes from two of my favorite speakers and added some of his own beliefs to it “If I can conceive it and believe it, I can achieve it. It's not my aptitude but my attitude that will determine my altitude—with a little intestinal fortitude!” All too true Jessie!
I know many successful people that are no smarter or more talented than most people you yourself talk to on a daily basis. However, their edge is their attitude. They take on tasks with the attitude that they will accomplish a result. If they meet with failure they learn from it, shrug it off, and move on. This means they go from one goal to the next repeatedly, accomplishing more and more with each passing day. They come be called brilliant and successful and outstanding because they have the right attitude. Successful people come from all walks of life, all nations of the world rich and poor, they range in color, shape and size, but there is one common factor – They have an attitude that that tells them they will get more good out of life than bad. That there will be far more wins than losses.
A person can be efficient at their task and still not be successful, if they do not have the right attitude. Any machine can just do the work, but it takes a human with the right attitude to make it come alive with the creativity that lies with the recesses of our minds. Those with the right attitude use that magic within us to make it better – to make it worthwhile – that ladies and gentleman makes the difference. Do not stand there waiting for the world to change towards you. You need to change towards what you want. For nothing changes until we do. Take you paint brush of life and paint the world you want, bright, hopeful, and filled with all the treasures of your dreams and goals. It has to start somewhere – let it begin with you!
Think about this for a moment: If you are the type of person that has a good attitude on the norm, and one day you come into work and are emotionally feeling down. What is one of the first questions you are asked? That is right! What’s wrong? People quickly see a change and react to it. The same will work in the opposite direction. If you normally carry a negative or defensive attitude, your changing that attitude will have immediate impact on how the world perceives and reacts to you.
So as you shape and mold your life whether personal or professional, know that it is further detailed and textured by your habitual attitude. Many people start their day in a neutral attitude. This is unfortunate. For these people are usually moved into the day’s attitude by the first stimulus they encounter – good or bad. These attitudinal chameleons crawl through their day changing the color of their cheer or discontent to that of their environment. Attitudinal chameleons are a reason why we MUST control our attitudes ensuring they are excellent. So that we do not become one ourselves.It was once said, “If you think you can or if you think you can’t…. You are right!” This is very true for if your attitude is one of “I cannot”, then you are beat before the run has even begun. Think I cannot get the job and you may as well not even go to the interview. Think I cannot reach this goal and it will always be unreachable. Think I cannot complete this project and there it will sit forever half done. Jessie Jackson has taken quotes from two of my favorite speakers and added some of his own beliefs to it “If I can conceive it and believe it, I can achieve it. It's not my aptitude but my attitude that will determine my altitude—with a little intestinal fortitude!” All too true Jessie!
I know many successful people that are no smarter or more talented than most people you yourself talk to on a daily basis. However, their edge is their attitude. They take on tasks with the attitude that they will accomplish a result. If they meet with failure they learn from it, shrug it off, and move on. This means they go from one goal to the next repeatedly, accomplishing more and more with each passing day. They come be called brilliant and successful and outstanding because they have the right attitude. Successful people come from all walks of life, all nations of the world rich and poor, they range in color, shape and size, but there is one common factor – They have an attitude that that tells them they will get more good out of life than bad. That there will be far more wins than losses.
A person can be efficient at their task and still not be successful, if they do not have the right attitude. Any machine can just do the work, but it takes a human with the right attitude to make it come alive with the creativity that lies with the recesses of our minds. Those with the right attitude use that magic within us to make it better – to make it worthwhile – that ladies and gentleman makes the difference. Do not stand there waiting for the world to change towards you. You need to change towards what you want. For nothing changes until we do. Take you paint brush of life and paint the world you want, bright, hopeful, and filled with all the treasures of your dreams and goals. It has to start somewhere – let it begin with you!
...... to be continued