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Today, it seems, that many people are all too
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more time and thought on what we CAN do. Many of us
cannot afford to stop, think and imagine .....
Today, it seems, that many people are all too
familiar with what they can't do. We need to spend
more time and thought on what we CAN do. Many of us
cannot afford to stop, think and imagine .....
"You are today what you thought about yesterday You will be
tomorrow what you think about today, Every attitude is positive
or negative, It doesn't matter what happens to you, It is how
you take it that matters."
"In the game of life you can be up one moment and down the next.
The reason is not luck as in snakes and ladders, but the
attitudes you choose consciously or unconsciously." Your
attitude will determine your entire outlook on life and how you
see the world- happy or sad, positive or negative. You can
choose to see it through rose-coloured spectacles (the eternal
optimist who is out of touch with reality). You can also see
everything as dark clouds (the absolute pes- simist), or choose
to see that every dark cloud has a silver lining, which is a
good attitude to have. Well it's true anyway!
I am the eternal optimist, out of touch, some say. Some people
pick up the doom and gloom portrayed by news- papers and the
media and transfer it to their own daily living. Attitude clouds
verything that happens to you and how you react to situations,
crises, etc.
Your attitude is your perception of an event- it is your
reality. You may perceive a certain situation to be a disaster,
while another person may see it differently, as a positive
oppor- tunity for trying something new: e.g.. on redundancy or
job loss or loss of a relationship.
As we have seen, one's attitude is closely related to your
self-image and it is probably the most critical factor in deter-
mining how successful or how happy you will be in life. The
inner attitude you have about yourself will determine your level
of success far more than the skills and training you have ever
received.
1. YOUR ATTITUDE DETERMINES YOUR DESTINY
Personally, due to a traumatic event some years ago, my
self-image was severely knocked, which impacted on my attitude
for quite a length of time. This was passed onto my wife, who
suffered a severe emotional crisis. Our neg- ative attitudes,
together with extraneous circumstances, made life very difficult
and stressful, leading to misjudge- ments, personal trauma and
an inability to make decisions.
However, entirely on our own, we have lifted ourselves and bit
by bit, regained our normal positive attitudes, which has
enabled us to achieve wonders and a happy life- style.
2. THE FACTORY OF THE MIND
Your thoughts become your beliefs, and your thoughts determine
whether "good" (positive), or "bad" (negative) messages are sent
from the brain to the rest of your body. There is a complex
relationship between the mind and the body. Physical disorders
are caused by your state of mind. What you think can literally
make you sick or healthy. The attitude you hold about yourself
can give rise to feel- ings of joy, despair, anger, rage, etc.
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The attitude you hold about yourself also affects your relation-
ships with other people. After a divorce, when a person's
confidence is at a low level and they may feel a failure, they
are more likely to die of certain medical disorders (because
their mental powers of resistance and self-esteem are low).
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human be- ings
can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
American psychologist, William James
Positive thoughts produce positive results, and negative
thoughts produce negative results. We should try to under- stand
how our thoughts arise and are influenced; they come into the
brain from what we hear, what we see, what we read and what we
say to ourselves.
We get our thoughts/attitudes from the media, those with whom we
mix and through self-talk. Negative people are the product of a
negative environment. Self-talk is what we say to ourselves all
day long. A number of sportsmen use this technique to stay
positive. Sports psychologists also use it. (See my book on
sports psychology called 'The Winning Mind'). Plug,plug !
Some people, on learning that they have cancer, have been known
to go into shock and die. There have also been cases of people
whom, expected to die far sooner by their doctors, have willed
themselves to stay alive for an event like the birth of a
grandchild. Australian aborigines can subconsciously will
themselves to die when the bones point to them (known as
voodoo). Or is it a hoodoo perhaps!
Optimism and pessimism are learned attitudinal behaviours and
they can be relearned. We need to constantly monitor our inner
navigational system, our attitudes to make our own course
corrections. Negative thinking cripples the mind, like polio
cripples the body. The cure is positive thinking- a positive
outlook for opportunities does wonders for one's attitude. Many
discoveries or luck come by chance. SEREN- DIPITY is the faculty
of making happy and unexpected dis- coveries by accident. Do try
anything!
WHAT IS your outlook on life - happy or sad? Remember what you
believe in normally happens. In other words, "YOU GET WHAT YOU
EXPECT". This is known as self-fulfil- ling prophecies, so top
golfers expect to hole their putts and are surprised when they
don't.
Be ENTHUSIASTIC - walk, talk and act enthusiastically and you
will find that it is contagious and that people will be at-
tracted to you.
SUMMARY
1. Attitudes are more important than facts.
2. How you take it is more important than what happens.
3. Attitude acts as a selective filter affecting perception : we
choose to see the best or worst in any situation.
AS WE THINK, SO SHALL WE BECOME
We are not as we think we are, but as we think- the quality of
our thinking is more important than what we think about. How we
think is our strangest secret.
If your goal is wealth, but your thinking is poverty-stricken,
your attitude will cancel out the achievement of your goal. If
your goal is health and you choose healthy thoughts, you will
realise your goal. NB: Attitudes beat facts every time.
"We need to be beneficiaries of our attitudes, not victims."
"Our attitude determines our altitude".
About the author:
Craig Lock has written extensively on the subject of personal
success, as well as doing much studying in the field of self
help. The various books* that I "felt inspired to write" are
available at: http://www.novelty-gift.com/ebooks.html