Power of Positive Attitude

               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.

(Compiled based on notes given in various training programs.. attended during service with The A.P.Paper Mils Ltd., Rajahmundry...Sincere acknowledgements to original well learned contributors ...🙏🙏🙏)