POWER OF POSITIVE ATTITUDE
FACTORS
THAT DETERMINE OUR ATTITUDE
Are
we born with attitudes or do we develop them as we mature?
What
are the factors that form our attitude?
Ø Environment;
Ø Experience;
Ø Education.
These
are called the triple Es of attitudes
THE
THREE Es OF ATTITUDE
Ø
Environment: In a positive
environment, a marginal performer’s output goes up. In a negative environment,
a good performer’s output goes down.
Culture in any place
always goes top down, never bottom up. We need to step back and look at what
kind of environment we have created for ourselves and for those around us. It
is tough to expect positive behavior in a negative environment. Where
lawlessness becomes the law, honest citizens become cheats, crooks and thieves.
Ø
Experience: Our behavior
changes according to our experience with people and events in our life. If we
have a positive experience with a person, our attitude toward him becomes
positive and vice versa.
Ø
Education: Knowledge
strategically applied translates into wisdom. Education ought to teach us not
only how to make a living but also how to live.
WHO
IS A PESSIMIST?
Pessimists:
v
Are unhappy when they have no
troubles to speak of;
v
Feel bad when they feel good,
for fear they will feel worse when they feel better;
v
Spend most of their life
complaining;
v
Always turn off the lights to
see how dark it is;
v
Are always looking for cracks
in the mirror of life;
v
Stop sleeping in bed when they
hear that more people die in bed than anywhere else;
v
Cannot enjoy their health
because they think they may be sick tomorrow;
v
Not only expect the worst but
make the worst of whatever happens;
v
Don’t see the doughnut, only
the hole;
v
Believe the sun shines only to
cast shadows;
v
Forget their blessings and
count their troubles;
v
Know that hard work never
hurts anyone but believe “why take a chance?”
WHO
IS AN OPTIMIST?
Optimists:
v
Are so strong that nothing can
disturb their peace of mind;
v
Talk health, happiness, and
prosperity to every person they meet;
v
Make all their friends feel
there is something in them;
v
Look at the sunny side of
everything;
v
Think only of the best, work
only for the best and expect only the best;
v
Are as enthusiastic about the
success of others as they are about their own;
v
Forget the mistakes of the
past and press on to greater achievements of the future;
v
Give everyone a smile;
v
Spend so much of their time
improving themselves that they have no time left to criticize others;
v
Are too big for worry and too
noble for anger
THE
EQUATION
POSITIVE
ATTITUDE + POSITIVISM + DEDICATION + DETERMINATION + DIRECTION + DISCIPLINE +
DEADLINE = SUCCESS.
Hence,
2P + 5D = Success.
Positive
attitude is a desiring to do well;
Positivism
is doing well.
