Attitude – the greatest equalizer you have control of
Posted in Time Management, Networking, Sales, Coaching, Marketing, Success, Leadership by Manny on February 8th, 2010 On my attitude kick again this week. I am so tired of
people thinking that their life, success and direction
or lack of is someone else is fault. Grow up! You
control your attitude, no one else does. Either
get it together or settle for less than you really
could have.
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This is a great story I want to share with you
today on attitude. If you don’t find real direction
after this one, then I am not sure there is much
hope for you.
From ODB January 2010.
Jean-Dominique Bauby’s memoir, “The Driving
Bell and the Butterfly” describes his life after
a massive stoke left him with a condition called
“Locked-in Syndrome.” Although he was almost
completely paralyzed, Bauby was able to write
his book by blinking his left eyelid. An aide
would recite a coded alphabet until Bauby blinked
to choose the letter of a word he was dictating.
The book required about 200,000 blinks to write.
Bauby used the only physical ability left him to
communicate with others.
Now, what was that you were complaining about?
Your sales were off last week? Does seem kind of
trivial in the face of the driving bell story -
don’t you think?
Or perhaps you didn’t close the huge deal last
week. And the point is? You didn’t get the
bonus you needed? Again, don’t you think it
seems kind of trivial in the face of the story you
just read?
Finally, you have to work all weekend to get
a proposal together and you got no time for
yourself? Oh well.
You see, when we put the things in our life in
prospective, sometimes it seems we are the one
that sucks.
Are you experiencing your own “locked-in syndrome?”
What are you going to do about it? Today!
You see attitude is the number one key to your
success moving forward
Forget all the rest and lets start by getting your
attitude in proper prospective. Forget what
happened in the past - it is gone. You cannot
change it. You cannot go backwards. You
cannot do anything about it except deal with it
with the right attitude. An attitude that says
moving forward I will be different.
“Attitude is more important than the past,
than education, than money, then circumstances,
than failure, than success than what other people
think, say or do. It is more important than
appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make
or break a company, a church, a home.”
Charles R. Swindoll
So how is your attitude doing today?
You have the control, all the control, total
control to take your attitude were you want it
to go. You can accomplish all you want, or
you can accomplish nothing. But either way,
the controlling factor is your attitude which
you have total control of.
We all know about the 80/20 rule in most all
things. Let me today introduce you to
Charles R. Swindoll’s 90/10 rule. Life is 10
percent what happens and 90 percent how
you react to it.
Think about it. We have almost zero control
over the things that happen to us. Yet, we
have total, absolute control over how we react
to them.
When that situation occurs in your life, business,
career, family or health today. Remember that
you have no control over the fact it happened.
It has happened and now you have to react.
You now have the control, what are you going
to do about it?
Starting today, right now, immediately. Never
again do you have to let anything take control
of your attitude. It is all yours. Do you think
this can make a huge difference in your life?
You know it can.
As Viktor Frankl in his book “Man’s search of
Meaning” says, “the last of the human freedoms
is to change one’s attitude in my given set of
circumstances.”
Go out this week with a fresh and powerful attitude.
Go out this week with an attitude that you can
accomplish the things your were meant to do.
Go out this week and handle all that comes up
in your life with the attitude of the winner.
You control your attitude. Now do it.
If you think you need some help with this
process then coaching might be the
key to helping you attain greater results.
It really works?
It can be that edge that you need.
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Coach Manny Nowak
Encouraging, educating, inspiring and strengthening
business owners to be the best.
