Archive for the ‘attitude’ Category

Today I was reminded of a post that I had written more than a year and a half ago on ActiveRain. The post, entitled Positive Attitude – Power Quotes Series was in a series that I was doing on quotes. This particular one meant a lot to me because it seems to be so hard to kept remaining positive when negativity is staring you down. First, before I get too deep, I would like to share the quotes that I used in this post.

“Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don’t hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.”
Zig Ziglar

“Be conscious of your attitude. Work extra hard at keeping your attitude positive in all kinds of weather, through all the challenges of life.”
Catherine Pulsifer, from All Is Going Well?

“Positive anything is better than negative nothing.”
Elbert Hubbard

“Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it.
I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.”
Charles F. Kettering

“Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.”
Bo Bennett

“A ‘positive attitude’ is definitely one of the keys to success. My definition of a positive attitude is a simple one: Looking for the good in all circumstances.
Catherine Pulsifer, from Authors Introduction (partial) to Wings of Wisdom

“Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.”
Norman Vincent Peale

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.”
Mark Twain

OK, now that is done, let’s get deep here. Maybe the quote that sticks out the most in this is the one from Norman Vincent Peale, “Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure”. When I read this, it sends chills up and down my spine. For years I have been telling people that attitude is everything when it comes to success. This rings really loud today for many businesses and people. One thing I hate is to hear people constantly complain about their circumstances, yet they are not willing to do anything to change them. For most of them, their attitude is in the sewer, so there will never be a positive change to those circumstances.

Years ago, I used to wake up every morning and look in the mirror and tell myself that I would never let anyone steal my joy. For that period of time, I might have been the most successful that I had been in years. Somewhere down that line, I let someone steal my joy and going to work became a chore instead of fun. Until today, I had forgotten all about it. Now, it is time to stay positive when negativity is staring you down. On a more personal note, for those of you that do not know, I went into the hospital on Jan 12th at 2:30 AM. In less than 4 hours, they had place me in ICU on a bipap breathing machine because I could not breathe on my own. With that being said, I had two choices to make. One, allow all the negative thoughts to enter my head and rule my life or decide to remain positive that all would work out. Well, I am sure you can figure out which I chose as I am sitting here writing this today.

In closing, there is nothing that we face in life that we cannot get through. We have to learn how to remain positive when negativity is staring you down. for those of you that want to know how to do that, let me tell you this. There is no secret to it. There is no easy path to it. It is something that you have to work at daily. It requires positive affirmations as well as friends that will support your positive attitude. On a side note, if your friends are always negative, maybe it is time to get some new friends.

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