Improve Your Attitude Improve Your Life
Posted by Buhle Dlamini on Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Under: Motivation
Buhle Dlamini
We have heard it said many times that your attitude determines your
altitude but it's amazing how many people still allow their attitudes
to limit their progress. Often in life it is not what happens to you
that counts but how you react to what happens that set winners apart
from those who fail. Deciding your reaction ahead of time will change
your life in more ways than you can imagine. Your attitude is entirely
dependent on your choice, circumstances are often out of your control
but how you look at them and deal with them is up to you.
Here are a few tips to make sure that your attitude is the very best it can be, no mater the circumstances.
Choose To Focus On Your Future
It is always easy to focus on your past and even on the current difficulty than to think about the future. Instead of worrying about who did what and who is to blame, focus on where you want to be and what you want to do. Being clear about your ideal successful future, and then taking whatever action you can to begin moving in that direction is key to a great attitude. Focus your mind, your thoughts, and your mental images on the future and you start thinking more about solutions instead of worrying. This brings us to our second tip.
Be Solution Oriented
Instead of letting challenges loom larger than life when you run into them decide to always be solution oriented. Do not dwell on the problem but let your mind to think about the way out. As you do this regularly your mind becomes trained to be solution oriented and it becomes and automatic reaction. This takes discipline and practice, the first few times it will be difficult to not be overwhelmed by the magnitude of the situation but as you become intentional it becomes easier.
Choose To Remain Positive
Choosing to be positive is not easy when you come home and the tap is gushing water and it will cost you more than you bargained for. Choosing to be positive is difficult when a loved one is diagnosed with a very serious disease and you know that this will definitely cost you and them a great deal emotionally and physically. But choosing to be positive is what you need to not be swallowed up but the challenges you will no doubt meet over and over again in your life. Life is not fair, bad things happen to good people all the time and we don't always get what we deserve. But choosing to remain positive helps you to not drown when others are overwhelmed. It opens you to endless opportunities that negative people will never consider and open doors that only positive people see in the dim light of a challenging situation.
Trust your best weapon in life is your attitude as Victor Frankl discovered in that concentration camp that when the Nazis had stripped him of all his earthly belongings they still could not take away who he was inside, he said "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way."
I hope today you will choose to have a great attitude no matter what comes your way!
We have heard it said many times that your attitude determines your
altitude but it's amazing how many people still allow their attitudes
to limit their progress. Often in life it is not what happens to you
that counts but how you react to what happens that set winners apart
from those who fail. Deciding your reaction ahead of time will change
your life in more ways than you can imagine. Your attitude is entirely
dependent on your choice, circumstances are often out of your control
but how you look at them and deal with them is up to you.Here are a few tips to make sure that your attitude is the very best it can be, no mater the circumstances.
Choose To Focus On Your Future
It is always easy to focus on your past and even on the current difficulty than to think about the future. Instead of worrying about who did what and who is to blame, focus on where you want to be and what you want to do. Being clear about your ideal successful future, and then taking whatever action you can to begin moving in that direction is key to a great attitude. Focus your mind, your thoughts, and your mental images on the future and you start thinking more about solutions instead of worrying. This brings us to our second tip.
Be Solution Oriented
Instead of letting challenges loom larger than life when you run into them decide to always be solution oriented. Do not dwell on the problem but let your mind to think about the way out. As you do this regularly your mind becomes trained to be solution oriented and it becomes and automatic reaction. This takes discipline and practice, the first few times it will be difficult to not be overwhelmed by the magnitude of the situation but as you become intentional it becomes easier.
Choose To Remain Positive
Choosing to be positive is not easy when you come home and the tap is gushing water and it will cost you more than you bargained for. Choosing to be positive is difficult when a loved one is diagnosed with a very serious disease and you know that this will definitely cost you and them a great deal emotionally and physically. But choosing to be positive is what you need to not be swallowed up but the challenges you will no doubt meet over and over again in your life. Life is not fair, bad things happen to good people all the time and we don't always get what we deserve. But choosing to remain positive helps you to not drown when others are overwhelmed. It opens you to endless opportunities that negative people will never consider and open doors that only positive people see in the dim light of a challenging situation.
Trust your best weapon in life is your attitude as Victor Frankl discovered in that concentration camp that when the Nazis had stripped him of all his earthly belongings they still could not take away who he was inside, he said "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way."
I hope today you will choose to have a great attitude no matter what comes your way!
In : Motivation
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Entrepreneur, Author and Motivational Speaker for an International and South African Audience on Strategy and Personal Development. I write and speak for other people's personal and business development and adding value to others is what defines my life.
