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Attitude is Everything 10 Life-Changing Steps to Turning Attitude into Action |
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Author: Keith Harrel Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers Date of Publication: 2002 ISBN: 0060954906 No. of pages: 240 pages |
Good vs. evil. Yin vs. yang. Positive vs. negative. Opposites thrive everywhere. Even in your own little self, a continuous battle exists. Whichever way you choose to deal with these battles, that choice always defines the attitude that you project. Looking at these objectively, a positive attitude is still undeniably the most valuable asset you can ever choose to treasure.
This book by Keith Harrell will show you the way towards a life ruled by positive attitude. This book will not only serve as a motivational device but a learning tool as well, that will expose you to fundamental principles leading to self-development and personal growth.
Step 1: Understand The Power of Attitude
To understand the power of attitude, you have to realize these though: your attitude affects everything you do, your attitude affects the people around you and your attitude reflects YOU. Remember that your attitudes always translate into actions. As a human being, you are not deemed perfect and is not therefore expected to adapt a positive attitude all of the time. However, it is important that you always work your way towards a positive attitude.
Step 2: Choose to Take Charge of Your Life
Choices are essential in your life. They can be made consciously or unconsciously. Whichever way, they always define behavior. Behaviors are your responses to every situation that you encounter. They often translate into habits. It is imperative then that you make a conscious effort of not letting your choices rule over you. Always take sometime to reflect on how your choices made differences in your life. When you see some bad choices along the way, never think that your realization came too late. Choosing to rectify mistakes made in the past is never too late a deed.
Step 3: Identifying Through Self-Awareness the Attitudes
That Hold You Back or Propel You Forward
The key to maintaining a good attitude is by doing some constant personal attitude assessment. By personally identifying your bad and harmful attitudes, the initiative to toss out specific personal negative traits and do some attitude tune up now comes from you. It makes the choice to change more appreciated.
Step 4: Reframe Your Bad Attitude
Be responsible for your own behavior. Realize that the people around you will not adjust your attitude for you. Don't get swept away by negative emotions like despair, grief, hatred, resentment, fear, anxiety and the like. Learn to block them from your thoughts.
Forgiveness enables you to accept other people's flaws and to realize that you sometimes do demand too much from other people. Learning to forgive also replaces pain and anger with respect towards others and yourself, most especially. It promotes some sense of calmness in the spirit to be able to let all that baggage go.
Step 5: Find Your Purpose and Passion
The process of getting in touch with your true purpose in life and finding your passion always brings you these three queries: (1) why were you born; (2) who are you really; and (3) what do you want to do with your life. Answering these questions will provide you with blueprints of your goals and the path towards the achievement of these goals.
Step 6: Be Proactive.
You should assume a never give up, never quit attitude. Always try to give yourself enough time to prepare for each activity you enlist into. Preparation is one thing that fuels attitude into action.
Step 7: Discover How to Motivate Yourself
If you delve deeper into your inner positive defenses you might just be surprised to discover that you have built in tools to help you neutralize negative attitudes. They just need some conditioning and they are good to go. These attitude tools are affirmations, self-motivation, visualization, attitude talk, powerful greetings, enthusiasm, spiritual empowerment, humor and exercise. These can help you stay focused, build confidence and eliminate counter productive thoughts.
Step 8: Build Supportive Relationships
We are formed by many hands and hearts
No one exists for long as an island. Everybody needs people to stay alive. Feedbacks from others help you maintain a straight perspective, tune up your wisdom channel, and help you cultivate honesty and build support.
Building relationships with the right attitude
You only reap what you sow. If you have always been giving as a friend, expect to always have people around to support and help you especially during moments of dire need.
Building your own A-Team
Build a team with whom you have shared values and visions because it is the best foundation for lasting relationships. This will serve as a constant reminder that you are never alone in this world. It will help you appreciate these people and at the same time, bring you humility.
Evaluating your attitudes about relationships
People who have maintained long and lasting relationships have been observed to share similar attitudes. These include: unconditional acceptance and respect for others, trustworthiness, genuine kindness, loyalty even if it means losing popularity, a listening ear, and an understanding heart and mind.
Step 9: See Changes as Opportunity
Changes are inevitable. The only question here is: how do you respond to the various changes that come your way?
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