Build a Strong and Positive Attitude

Based on the famous book " You Can Win " of Shiv Khera

1.    People can be your biggest assets or your biggest liabilities. If they have positive attitude, they are assets. But they are liabilities without it.

2.    He calls the people with right attitude "Total Quality People"--people with character, integrity, good values, and a positive attitude.

3.    Attitude is formed by triple Es - Environment, Experience, Education

The following 8 points are the steps which may serve as a quick guide to cultivate a right attitude: -

1. Be a good finder. Change focus, look for positive. Andrew Carnegie told that dealing with people is like digging for gold. First remove tones of dirt to find an ounce of gold.

2. Make a habit of doing it now. Save yourself from excusitis and paralysis of analysis leading to procrastination.

3. Develop an attitude of gratitude. Count your blessings. Thank God and everyone for every beautiful thing in your life that many a people don’t have.

4. Get into a continuous education program. If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Knowledge is potential power. Wisdom is real power. Knowledge is power when applied. Education is reservoir which can be used in future. Wisdom is dispelling ignorance. It is an abundance of common sense. Knowledge is piling up of facts and wisdom is simplifying it. Intelligence is quickness to leam. Ability is the skill to apply what is learned. Competence is the ability and the desire to apply what is learned. Desire is the attitude that makes a skilful person competent.

 Education without value is waste. True education is training of both the head and the heart. An uneducated thief may steal from the freight car but an educated one may steal the entire railroad. Education doesn't always mean good judgement. The story of an uneducated hotdog seller misguided by his educated son about upcoming recession drives the fact home better. Schools are a fountain of knowledge: some students come to drink, some to sip and others just to gargle.

4. Sharpen your axe. Feed your mind daily with positive thoughts to overcome the prevailing negative thoughts. Like food what matters is how much you digest not how much eat.

5. Build positive self-esteem. It's what you feel about yourself. One of the fastest ways is to do something for others who cannot repay you in cash or kind. Takers eat well and givers sleep well. Don't say “I will try “say I will do. The word try allows you to give up or quit.

6. Stay away from negative influences.

👍 negative people (Whenever people succeed in life, petty people will take cracks at them and try to pull them down. When you refuse to fight petty people, you win. In martial arts, they teach that when someone takes a crack at you, instead of blocking you should step away. Why? Even to block you require energy. Why not use it more productively? Similarly, in order to fight petty people, you have to come down to their level. This is what they want, because now you are one of them.).

          👍Alcohol - Drinking makes a person lose his inhibitions and give exhibitions 

👍Pornography

👍Negative movies and TV programmes

👍Profanity - Using profanities showed a lack of vocabulary, self-control and discipline.

      👍Rock Music - The lyrics of some hit songs are vulgar.

        👍 Associate with people of high moral character and read good books.

 

7. Learn to like the things that need to be done. Some things need to be done whether we like them or not. They may not be fun and games, and may even be painful. But if we learn to like the task, the impossible becomes possible. Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

8. Start your day with a positive.

 

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