Attitude is Everything
by Jim Rohn
The process of human change begins within us. We all have tremendous
potential. We all desire good results from our efforts. Most
of us are willing to work hard and to pay the price that success
and happiness demand.
Each of us has the ability to put our unique human potential into
action and to acquire a desired result. But the one thing that
determines the level of our potential, that produces the intensity
of our activity, and that predicts the quality of the result we
receive is our attitude.
Attitude determines how much of the future we are allowed to see.
It decides the size of our dreams and influences our determination
when we are faced with new challenges. No other person on earth
has dominion over our attitude. People can affect our attitude
by teaching us poor thinking habits or unintentionally misinforming
us or providing us with negative sources of influence, but no one
can control our attitude unless we voluntarily surrender that control.
No one else "makes us angry." We make ourselves angry
when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone else may
have done is irrelevant. We choose, not they. They merely put our
attitude to a test. If we select a volatile attitude by becoming
hostile, angry, jealous or suspicious, then we have failed the
test. If we condemn ourselves by believing that we are unworthy,
then again, we have failed the test.
If we care at all about ourselves, then we must accept full responsibility
for our own feelings. We must learn to guard against those feelings
that have the capacity to lead our attitude down the wrong path
and to strengthen those feelings that can lead us confidently into
a better future.
If we want to receive the rewards the future holds in trust for
us, then we must exercise the most important choice given to us
as members of the human race by maintaining total dominion over
our attitude. Our attitude is an asset, a treasure of great value,
which must be protected accordingly. Beware of the vandals and
thieves among us who would injure our positive attitude or seek
to steal it away.
Having the right attitude is one of the basics that success requires.
The combination of a sound personal philosophy and a positive attitude
about ourselves and the world around us gives us an inner strength
and a firm resolve that influences all the other areas of our existence.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
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