So, what is Attitude?

Now, I know what you’re saying. You think I’m about to dive into this long drawn out process about loving your work, or finding your passion and calling in life, and so forth. Well, not so much… yet.

So then why are we talking about attitude?

To put this in simple terms and a definition that hopefully you can understand; attitude is the optical lens of your mind to the outside world. It magnifies your mood, your emotions, your feelings, your beliefs, and your thoughts. Your attitude is picked up by receptors all around, especially people. We give off certain attitudes unconsciously because we are normally in a state of reacting to other circumstances. That circumstance is usually the result of someone else’s attitude through one form or another.

We react and our attitude shows.

Now, since it’s possible when we’re reacting that our attitudes become victim to other circumstances caused by other attitudes isn’t it possible that the attitudes of other’s are reacting to your attitude as well? Most definitely, and the attitude you see in other’s towards you, is usually a reaction of the attitude you dispense. Now think about that really carefully….  The attitude you see in others towards you, is usually a reaction of the attitude you dispense.

Seems like an endless cycle doesn’t it? It’s just an endless cycle of reacting thoughts and attitudes. So how on earth do we stop this train!?!?

Quite simple; we stop reacting, and we learn how to take charge of our thoughts and emotions, and become pro-active.

How do we become pro-active?

Well, by paying attention to what we feed our mind. If you want a positive attitude, you need to feed your mind with positive things. Especially, if there are negative situations all around you. You can learn to separate yourself from those dark clouds, and focus on feeding and nourishing your mind with the kind of things that you want your world to be filled with.

What you feed your mind with, is what you will feed your world through your attitude, and what you feed your world with, is the exact same response that your world will give you.

Again, if you want a great attitude in life, you need to feed your mind with great things, and if you truly want to have great successes, then you better feed yourself with a great attitude. Because what you think about, is what you will put out, and what you will put out, is what you will get back. So make everything you put in, great!

Before you do anything else, make sure your attitude is in check.

William James, Founder of Psychology in Americasaid, “Human Beings can alter their lives, by altering their attitude of mind”.

Holocaust survivor and author Victor Frankl said, “The last of human freedoms – is the ability to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.” He also said, “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

Earl Nightingale, author of The Strangest Secret said, “We become what we think about”