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Chapter One: Attitude is Everything

Step 1: Understand the power of attitude

Life will always be full of surprises. It will never cease to hurl disappointments and frustrations on your way. Nevertheless, these negative occurrences will always be coupled with matching, if not greater, intensities of happiness leading to ultimate joy. The difference lies though on the handling methods you apply various situations that come your way. It will all lie on how you translate bad situations into good learning experiences.

Keith Harrell shares his frustration on not being drafted to the NBA and how this experience shaped the rest of his lifetime. Sometimes, disappointments and frustrations are miracles in the form of disguises. If you would look deeper into your story, these negative events might just be a form of a wake up call for you. More often than not, they are simple incidence to make you realize that life has better offers for you.

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. As a first step, ponder on these questions: (1) how well do you know yourself; (2) What are your attitudes at work; and (3) what are your attitudes at home? By personally digging into yourself, you start connecting with your inner self. You are now starting your attitude tune up.

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. You can start your journey towards positivity by practicing the following steps:

• Learning to handle stress by balancing work and leisure time
• Identifying your persistent negative and pessimistic thoughts and learning to combat them with logical and rational thoughts.
• Sharing what you feel to a supportive person, one good example of which is emptying out your worries to a close friend.
• Working your way towards a problem solution instead of choosing to be argumentative always.