During childhood. We from attitudes that last a life time. Undoubtedly, it would be easier to acquire a positive attitude during our formative years. If the combination of your inborn temperament and your early childhood experiences have produced a positive attitude you are indeed fortunate. But if you have acquired a negative attitude, whether by design or by default-are you stuck with it? Of course not. Can you change? Yes. It is easy.
HOW DO YOU BUILD AND MAINTAIN A POSITIVE ATTITUDE?
- Become aware of the principles that build a positive attitude
- Desire to be positive
- Cultivate the discipline and dedication to practice those principles.
As adults, regardless of our environment, education and experience, who is responsible for our attitude? We are. We have to accept responsibility for our behavior and actions. Some people everyone and everything but themselves. It is up to us to choose our attitude every morning. People with negative attitudes often blame the whole world -- their parents, teachers, spouse, bosses, the stars, fate, luck, the economy and the government-for their failures. You have to get away from the past. Dust yourself off and get back into the mainstream. Put your dreams together and move forward. Thinking of the positive things that are true, honest and good, will put you in a positive state of mind.
STEPS TO ATTITUDE CHANGE
1.CHANGE FOCUS, LOOK FOR THE POSITIVE
You need to become a seeker of good. You need to focus on the positive in your life. Start looking for what is right in a person instead of looking for what is wrong. Because of our conditioning, most of us are so attuned to finding fault and looking for what is wrong that we often forget to see the positive picture.
LOOK FOR THE GOLD
ANDREW CARNEGIE came to America from SCOTLAND as a young boy. He started out by doing odd jobs and ended up as one of the largest steel manufacturers in U.S. At one time, he had 43 millionaires working for him. A million dollars is a lot of money today. But in 1920 it was worth much more.
Someone once asked him how he dealt with people, ANDREW CARNEGIE replied" Dealing with people is a lot like digging for gold: When you go digging for an ounce of gold you have to move tons of dirt. But when go digging, you don't go looking for the dirt, you go looking for the gold."
ANDREW Carnegie's reply has a very important message. Though sometimes it may not be apparent there is something positive in every person and every situation .We have to dig deep to look for positive.
I HAVE TO SAY FEW THINGS
- LOOK FOR THE POSITIVE.
- MAKE A HABIT OF DOING NOW.
- DEVELOP AN ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE.
- CREATE A CONTINUOUS EDUCATION PROGRAM FOR YOURSELF.
- BUILD POSITIVE SELF ESTEEM.
- STAY AWAY FROM NEGATIVE INFLUENCES.
- LEARN TO LIKE THE THINGS THAT NEED TO BE DONE.
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