The attitude that you take, belongs to you. Your attitude will be reflected in everyone that you meet and you speak with. Everything that you touch will turn out the way your underlying attitude is. You will attract people based on your attitude.
You choose your attitude.
It is unbelievably frightening how much your success or failure in life is dependent on your attitude and your attitude is dependent on the choices you make each and everyday.
This is not a new concept, the most famous is the book called The Power Of Positive Thinking. You may have heard of it called Positive Mental Attitude and have learned about it from Napoleon Hill, Anthony Robbins, or Earl Nightingale to name just a few.
Simple reading of most writers gives the impression that a Positive Mental Attitude is a stand alone thing that only needs to be brought out only in times of adversity. This is wrong. The attitude must be applied even to the most mundane things.
Attitude effects absolutely everything that happens to you. A well chosen attitude towards life must be integrated into everything that you do and every facet of every interaction. It is core to having a life that you choose rather than a life that happens.
My approach to choosing a successful attitude is an application of the Tell Me The Secret To Success.
- Choose the attitude you are going to project in life. (Set the goal)
- Study those people in your life that have that attitude (Create your plan)
- Behave with that attitude and see who responds (Find your team)
I want to warn you – the above rules will ensure you your are successful at choosing your attitude. This choice will result in you becoming a certain type of person. But you may not like some of the things that happen along the way. I want to be a person that helps others. I want to be a kind, nice person. I want to be a good father. Everyday I continuously make choices that reflect this. Many days these choices negatively effect my financial well being and my immediate personal happiness.
These are the choices I make, and I am happy to make these choices.
In your life, you also make choices. However, not everyone is aware of the choices they make or they feel they are forced into certain choices. Not making a conscious choice is simply silly. Feeling you are forced to make certain choices is almost as bad.
Let’s make this real.
Typically people stay at a job they hate because they say they need the money. The reality is that they have made some choices. They have chosen a certain lifestyle that requires a certain amount of income to maintain. The choice to change their lifestyle and the subsequent upheaval is too great to imagine. Therefore, they have made the choice between a job they hate and a massive disruption in their life.
This is all about your attitude and choosing the attitude you want.
You can choose to face life looking for the goodness each and every day, or you can choose to look for the slap in the face.
You can choose to use your time to ensuring financial success or you can choose spending your time in other ways.
You can choose to improve yourself each and everyday or you can choose to live your life with the same knowledge you had yesterday.
If you choose to look for opportunities you will be busy all day working with people who want to help you grow wealthy.
If you choose to look for the bad, you will see each car that cuts you off, how people are all trying to take your money, or how they are insulting you.
You can choose to remember everything that didn’t go the way you wanted, or you can choose to learn lessons from everything that didn’t go the way you planned.
I choose to be an obnoxiously energetic person who does his best to spread happiness and good cheer as much as possible.
I try my best to help others meet their goals whenever I can. This attracts people who do this at a level I aspire to. Today was a perfect example. I met with one of my business partners and he surprised me with a lovely tie from Harry Rosen. Why? Because last week, I was wearing a tie that had a little pull in it. He went out a bought me an expensive tie just because he thought I needed one. I wish I was able to think like that.
Somebody from the Marathon Clinic I teach, bought me an eload to help with my cramping. She did it just to be nice. Me – I would have told the person what to buy, and left it at that.
I meet so many people like this every week that I am embarrassed. My point? Because I have chosen in everyone of my efforts to be a a good person – good people show up to teach me how.
Each of these people are very successful in their careers. What they did was nice and kind. I know their success comes from choosing each and every day to make the world a better place.
One last story about choosing a great attitude.
The last couple of weeks of December is an amazing time in Toronto. Despite the fact that people are extremely busy and stressed with shopping, finishing projects and planning vacations, everything is exciting and fresh. People say Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to perfect strangers.
I am convinced that the joy is because the New Year is around the corner. People are choosing to look forward to a Positive and Successful New Year. They believe that the coming year will be different than the existing one and many of their hopes and dreams will come true. They make New Years resolutions and all sorts of other positive promises.
They are choosing to believe the coming year will be good and their attitude reflects this.
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