8 Ways to Improve Your Attitude
A positive attitude make success easy; a negative one makes
success pointless.
If
you truly want to be successful, your number one task should be to create and
maintain a positive attitude. When you've got an attitude of optimism,
expectancy and enthusiasm, opportunities grow, and problems shrink.
If you're a leader, a positive
attitude draws people to your side and encourages them to do their best work. A
leader with a negative attitude, however, can only compel others to take action
through fear.
More importantly, what would be
point of being successful if you're always feeling lousy? With that in
mind, here's how to ensure your attitude stays upbeat:
1. Always act with a
purpose.
Before you take any action, decide
how it will serve your greater goals. If the connection is weak or
non-existent, take that action off your to-do list. Aimless activity wastes
time and energy.
2. Stretch yourself past
your limits every day.
Doing the same-old, same-old is depressing,
even if your same-old has been successful in the past. Success is like
athletics; if you don't stretch yourself every day, you gradually become
slow and brittle.
3. Take action without
expecting results.
While you naturally must make
decisions and take action based upon the results you'd like to achieve, it's a
big mistake to expect those results and then be disappointed when you
don't get them. Take your best shot but don't obsess about the target.
4. Use setbacks to improve
your skills.
Rather than feeling bad if you fail
or get rejected, look back at your actions and see what you can do (if
anything) to improve your performances. Remember: the results you receive
are the signposts for the results you want to achieve.
5. Seek out those who
share your positive attitude.
It's a scientific fact your brain
automatically imitates the behaviors of the people around you. Therefore,
you should surround yourself with positive thinkers and shun those who are
excessively negative.
6. Don't yourself so seriously.
If you want to be happier and make
those around you feel more comfortable, cultivate the ability to laugh at
yourself. If you don't (or can't) laugh at yourself, I guarantee you that
the people you work with are laughing behind your back!
7. Forgive the limitations
of others.
High standards are important, but
humans are, well, human. It's crazy to make yourself miserable because other
people can't do a job as well as you think you could, or when people don't
share your vision with the same passion that you feel.
8. Say "thank
you" more frequently.
Achieving an "attitude of
gratitude" requires more than simply being aware of what's wonderful in
your life. You must, and should, thank other people for their gifts to
you, even if that gift is something as simple as a smile.
GEOFFREY
JAMES http://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/8-ways-to-improve-your-attitude.html
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