EXTRAORDINARY SUCCESS ATTITUDES AND HOW TO DEVELOP THEM
Attitude is simply a
tendency to respond positively or negatively to a particular idea, object,
person, or situation. John Maxwell’s assertion still stands true that, “Life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90
percent how we react to it.” He further says, “Attitudes are nothing more
than habits of thought.” Fortunately
for all of us, our attitude is 100 percent within our control!
In
life generally, people highly successful in business, wealth and other fields
tend to advance more and more, while those who aren’t tend to decrease more and
more. As a matter of fact, the gap between the rich and the poor is far greater
than had been feared. Just eight persons or so own same wealth as half of the
world’s population.
Why
is the gap between the rich and the poor widening instead of narrowing? A big
part of the reason is attitude. Yep, attitude! This really underscores Clement
Stone’s statement that, “There is little
difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The
little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether is it positive or
negative.”
People
with positive attitude are always more successful, richer, healthier, happier,
and more fulfilled than people with negative attitude. Have you had a flat tyre
before? Were you able to move from there without changing it? No way! A
negative attitude is like a flat tyre. You can’t go anywhere until you change
it.
The
millionaires, billionaires, celebrities in sports, entertainment,
communications, great parents, and giants in all fields of human endeavour
consciously develop attitudes that drive them to the top. People who are
wealthy or otherwise successful tend to fill their minds with thoughts, words, pictures and
images of wealth, affluence, success, productivity, and solutions to problems,
most of the time. How can we then grow great attitudes?
Hints on Developing Extraordinary
Success Attitudes
(1)
Start each day with a positive gear, a
set of simple routines of taking charge of your mind. Read your Bible,
meditate, pray, sing songs, listen to thought-enhancing music or some
inspirational things. Just do something worthwhile to start the day in a good
mood, to put the right step forward. You can stand before your mirror and say
some positive things to the wonderful man or woman you see there. The way you
begin the day is likely to determine how you experience and end it.
(2)
Visualize
your ultimate goal: Do you have a written vision and mission statement of
your life? If not, why not. If you do, read it aloud to yourself, and picture
that future. The mental picture of a person certainly sets in motion the mode
of his or her thoughts and the mood of his or her feelings. When you see your
end from where you’re standing, even if the present terrain looks rough, you’re
reinvigorated to carry on. The future I used to see really empowered me and the
future I still see still keeps me upbeat.
(4)
Surround yourself with positive-minded,
enthusiastic fellows: To every person, God has appointed, assigned and
positioned vision helpers. They’ll always encourage you one way or the other.
Locate and stick with them. Everywhere,
there’re also vision destroyers. They’ll always see a bleak future, a hopeless
environment, and try to talk you into also seeing and talking same. Don’t let
them stick around you and waste your time.
(5)
Be grateful both for what is done and
yet to be done: A life of appreciation causes you to continue to appreciate
or increase in attitude, expectations and results. I encourage you to draw more
strength to develop a positive attitude from these great lines penned down by W. C. Fields, “Attitude is more important than the
past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or
say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.”
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