February 24th, 2008 by aaks
Having a positive attitude will enable us to overcome all difficulties. It is easier to be said than done. But it is very true that when you have a positive thinking that you are able to achieve anything, you will be able to do it. I will like to share with you a small story below.
In the famous biblical story, a small shepherd boy killed a giant. David, a small 17-year-old shepherd visited his brother. He asked his brother if he could fight with the giant, Goliath. His brother answered David, “Goliath is too large to hit.” David replied, “He is not too large to hit but too large to miss.” The small boy went out with a sling to fight with the giant. He killed the giant with a slingshot.
Can you see the difference in thinking which causes 2 different effects. If David has listen to his brother and think like his brother, he will not be able to achieve anything. He will always be avoiding big problem and so he never gets anything done.
But what David has done is that he has a different thinking, and thus he gets different result. He has a positive thinking which enables him to think of solution to solve the problem. He thinks of the solution and then he takes action. That is the most important thing. Those who always take action are always the one who has a positive attitude.
The moral of the story is that everyone has a different perception to a huge task. Lazy and timid persons just give up on the task thinking it to be too difficult to achieve. However, the wise and the brave try to explore all possible avenues to achieve it. As there is a saying, life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing. So have a positive attitude today and take massive action.
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February 24th, 2008 by aaks
Positive thinking is so important as it will affects all aspects of our life. What I am going to share with you will be 1 story example of why having a positive attitude is so beneficial to us.
Thomas Edison, the greatest inventor of all time failed around 10,000 times in his quest to invent a light bulb. He persisted till he found the solution. You will be surprised to know that this great inventor only has 3 months of formal schooling in his entire life. The another surprise thing is that he was a partially deaf 4 year old boy who returned one day from school with a note from his teacher. The note read, “Your Tommy is too stupid to learn, take him out from school”. His mother taught him at home since then.
So what is the thing that we can learn from this story? Personally I feel that the success story of every great man is full of disappointments, failures, setbacks, and betrayal. They face them with a smile as a great warrior success eventually comes to them. No struggle, no success. What is the thing that keeps him going and never gives up, it is his positive attitude.
The society is created in such a way that it is only when we make mistake then we will be able to learn something new. In order to reach our goal, we must first be able to overcome all the problem and the obstacles that come along our way. When you have a positive attitude, you will see every problem as a great opportunity to go forward. It is not easy in real life when we are being constantly bombarded by all the negative influence from our environment. That is when we have to make an effort to have a positive attitude and maintain it.
Whenever I feel like giving up, I will just remember the Thomas Edison story and I will get motivated again and have a positive attitude towards my task. Have a positive attitude today and go towards your dream.
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February 24th, 2008 by aaks
Why having a positive attitude is so important in life? Is it really necessary to have a positive attitude? Should go through all the trouble to learn how to have a positive attitude? These are the kind of questions that some people might ask.
Recent studies have shown that education contributes only a mere 15% in getting a new job or promotion while the remaining 85% is because of attitude! This really shows in order to achieve success in life; the importance of having a positive is unchallenged.
There will always be 2 thoughts that will be fighting in our mind. One will be the positive thinking and the other will be the negative thinking. Each and every moment of our life is determined by this difference between the stepping stone and the stumbling block. Positive attitude is the key to success while Negative attitude is the key to failure.
Recent studies done by the University of Texas has shown that people with an upbeat view of life were less likely than pessimists to show signs of frailty. Plus, research has found that a positive attitude may delay the ageing process!
In the study, the Texas team carried out tests on 1,558 older people from the Mexican American community to examine whether there was a link between positive emotions and the onset of frailty. At the start of the seven year study all the volunteers were in relatively robust good health. The researchers assessed the development of frailty during the study by measuring the participants’ weight loss, exhaustion, walking speed and grip strength. They found that those people who had a positive attitude towards life were significantly less likely to become frail.
So it has been proven that not only having a positive attitude can improve our mental health, it can also improve our physical health. It is so important to have a positive attitude as it can really improve our life. So start to have positive attitude today.
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February 24th, 2008 by aaks
Having a positive attitude can help you to cope more easily with life’s daily affairs. If you have a positive attitude, it will bring optimism into your life. Having a positive attitude will make it easier for you to avoid worry and negative thinking. It is very important as you will focus more of your time in getting things done.
If you adopt positive attitude as part of your life, you will be able to see the constructive changes in your life, and over the long run it will make you happier and be far more successful. It is very true that you will see the bright side of life, be more optimistic and you will expect the best thing to happen to you if you have positive attitude towards your life. Here are just some of the benefits of having a positive attitude:
• Achieve your goals and attain success
• Success achieved faster and more easily
• More energy
• More happiness
• Greater inner power and strength
• The ability to inspire and motivate yourself and others
• The ability to surmount any difficulty
• People begin to respect you more
Positive attitude is definitely a state of mind that is worth developing and strengthening. It is a very useful and vital skill when once you have mastered it; you will be able to use it in all aspects of your life.
The most important thing is to take action in wanting to have a positive attitude and the desire to make changes to your life. So since you have know the benefits of having a positive attitude now, the next thing that you should do now is to start applying it. Have a positive attitude and make the changes today.
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February 9th, 2008 by aaks
Attitude can be defined as a state of mind or feeling regarding the situation. A positive attitude will mean that it is a helpful attitude that will help the person in a physical state or emotional state. A person who has a positive attitude will be able to look and find opportunities in a situation when the others are not able to spot it. Those who have the positive attitude will always focus on finding the solution for the problems whereas those who have the negative attitude will always focus on the problems but not on the solutions.
It is always those who focus on finding the solution that will be able to achieve the goal that they want to achieve faster and in a creative way. Everyone has the ability to create a positive thinking process and focus more of what is right so that they will be able to solve the problem or reach their goal. The common habit among all the successful people is that they all have a very positive attitude.
Some of the successful people are able to bounce back from failure and work their way to success. It looks as though that they have the magic ability to twist the situation around. In fact it should not even be called a magic as it is the things that everyone of us has it. That thing is call positive attitude. It is just a matter choice of whether the person wants to put the effort to have it or not.
Our brain will be able to remember the feeling and emotion that comes with any experience but it will not really remember the exact facts and details of the situation. Most often it is the emotion that will decided on what actions we will take when we happen to face a new situation or a situation that we have experience before. That is when out attitude will come in. Those who have a positive attitude will be able see it from another angle. Instead of being traumatized by the experience, they will be more motivated to find ways to solve the situation.
Everybody might have the same fear but it is those who have the positive attitude that will be able to conquer it and achieve the success that most can only dream of. In fact, everybody has the ability to have a positive attitude and be able to achieve anything that they want. All they need is to switch their thinking or attitude. It is the key to answer all problems in life. So START today having a positive attitude and achieve your dream.
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February 9th, 2008 by aaks
Positive attitude is the key and the way to success in whatever things that we desire. Be it in business, relationship, family etc, positive attitude is the common habits that all different kinds of successful people have. If we do not have a positive attitude, our journey towards our goal will be full of obstacles and thorns.
Below is 3 ways on how we can set ourselves up for success through positive attitude.
• Focus on the future, not the past. What ever thing that has happen in the past, you will not be able to change it. So it is basically a waste of time if you spend too much time being sad over the past. Just learn from the past and remind yourself never to repeat the mistake again. If you focus on the future and you decide on what you want to do, you will have a very high chance of reaching your goal. Always aim for the highest point and you will live a exciting and fulfilling day on a daily basis.
• Expect the best thing that you will get and be mentally prepared for the worst. Life is already hard. So you should always aim for the best but at the same time be mentally prepared for the worst. If you are already mentally prepared and you have a positive attitude, you will be able to cope and handle whatever situation that is facing you. Remember it is not the problem that is giving you trouble, it is how you handle the problem that will decide what will happen to you.
• Do not be a perfectionist. Learn from mistake. Life is not perfect. If we have to wait till all the traffic light turn to green light then we take action, it will already be too late. Just take action and do keep in mind that you will make mistake along the mistake. Making a mistake does not mean you are a failure. Treat each mistake as though they are stepping stones that will keep you nearer to your goal. There are no failures in this world, only people who do not try enough and they give up.
These 3 points are very important and in order for this to take effect, you must have a positive attitude. It is a very important element so that you will be able to set yourself up for success. Positive attitude is very important. So start thinking positively and have a positive attitude today.
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February 9th, 2008 by aaks
What does having energy and vitality got to do with having a positive attitude? It has got everything to do with it. Having a positive attitude is like having food that is being fed to our mental health. It is very important as besides being physical active you should also be mentally active by having a positive attitude. When you have a positive thinking about yourself, everything will be smooth and pleasant. Positive attitude will cause people to have a more positive outlook towards life. When you are able to handle problems and stress, you will feel happier and healthier too. When you constantly tell yourself to have a positive attitude, everything around you will seem to be going the way that you want it to be.
Imagine now that you are facing a crunch point now in relationship, career etc, problems is everywhere and you are under a lot of stress. For majority of the people, their energy will be suck by the problem and they will only focus on the problem. For people who have a positive attitude, they will focus all their time and energy on finding the solution. They will stay calm when they face problems and they have confidence in their own abilities. They will be daring to go forward as they see the difficulty not as a problem but a challenge. They will have the spirit of never give up. They will take control of the situation and get as much facts as possible to overcome their challenge. By just having a positive attitude, they will be more enthusiastic towards life and they will have more energy.
If you want more energy and vitality, just have a positive attitude. When you have the same positive attitude and habits like the successful people, you will have the energy and perseverance to overcome your challenge. When you have succeeded in completing your goal, you will feel a deep sense of satisfaction and more confident of yourself. So start having a positive attitude today and have the abundance of energy
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February 9th, 2008 by aaks
Everybody will be able to achieve their goals or dreams if they have a positive attitude. It is the habit that all successful people have. Positive attitude is a very important ingredient towards success. Basically there are 2 things that all those who have positive attitude will do when they want to reach their goal or dream.
The first one will be self belief. It is very important because what constantly goes on in our mind will become our reality. So if you want to reach certain goal, always focus on the solution to solve the problem and constantly tell yourself that you are able to achieve it. Be alert to what your mind tells you when you go weak. Replace all your negative thinking with a positive thinking and emotion that will provide with so much energy that you will be able to persist. Once you have the belief, you must always try to have new or maintain the positive feeling. Think of something that will makes you feel so motivated that you are bursting with energy and enthusiasm that you want to reach your goal as soon as possible. Always be alert on what your mind is telling you. Have some visual things so that whenever you see this thing you will be charged up.
The second one which is the most important one is taking MASSIVE ACTION. You can talk and dream all the way you want on why you want to achieve your dream. But if you do not take any action, nothing will happen to you. Things will only happen when you take action. There is no point imagining how delicious the food is if you do not taste the food personally. When you have a goal, start to take action now and on a daily basis. Even if it is small action that is taken on the consistent basis, when you add up all the small work, it will be a very huge amount of work being done. It is the consistency of taking action that will make things happen.
So start having a positive attitude now and have the belief that you will be able to achieve it. Always have a positive attitude and mindset so that you will be charged up to take action. Do not waste anymore time. You have already wasted more than enough time already. Take massive and reach your goal.
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February 9th, 2008 by aaks
Children are facing so much stress in school so it is important that both the children and the parent have positive attitude. When both have positive attitude towards education, it will ensure that the children will not have much problems in school and the parent will use a more productive way to help his children. Here are some ways that having a positive attitude will help the children:
1) Praise your child
If parent constantly give good comments and praise their children when they have get certain results through their own effort, the child will feel happier. They will feel more motivated as they will feel that their parent is behind them.
2) Listen more to what your child has to say
It will be better if the parents make more effort to listen to what the child is facing in school on a daily basis. In this way, you will really understand what he goes through everyday. Be creative in the approach so that your child will open more to you.
3) Be a good role model teacher
The most important teacher is the child’s parent. Do get more involve with what your child will be doing and encourage along the way. Focus more on their strength and be patient
4) Be more involved with your child
When parent actually take the effort to show that studying is important not only to the child but also important to the family, they will feel that they are part of the team. They will make more effort.
5) Know when is the time to release and control
This is very important as the parent must know where his or her limits are. If you push too hard or too strict, instead of making your child to be motivated to study, he might slowly show a negative attitude towards study. So it is important to know when is the right time to help your child.
Having a positive relationship with the child will help to ensure that the child will have a positive thinking and attitude towards studying. They will be able to perform better as they will feel more motivated. So having a positive attitude for both the parent and the child is very important.
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February 9th, 2008 by aaks
Some people say attitude is everything and it will affect every aspect of our life. Some will agree with it and some will not. There will be some people who will think that mindset will decide where their life will go. They believe constant thinking will next become constant action. Constant action will then become constant habit and lastly constant habit will become the person’s fate or destiny. So they believe the root of the whole situation is the kind of thinking or attitude that they have in their mind that will decided where they will go in life. But there will be another group of people who will say that why should we be thinking so much. We should just live one day at a time and see how everything in life will go.
Everyone will have their own opinions. But there will be one fact that we cannot deny. All of us have the ability to change our life and soar to new heights of accomplishments and success if we have a positive attitude and we constantly apply motivational concepts on a daily basis. This is the common habit that all the successful people have. Motivation and positive attitude is like a fire, we have to keep on adding fuel or else it will goes off. Successful people are able to achieve their goals because they keep on adding fuel to their fire.
Those who have the fire and positive attitude will be able to persist no matter how big the obstacles are. They will think in a creative way and they will focus all their time and energy on how to find the solution so that they will be able to get to the next stage. We often hear it is those people that has positive attitude that achieve great success, not the other way round. Those who have positive attitude will tend to be happier, healthier wealthier and more satisfied than those who have negative attitude. Life is much easier for them as they are problem solver whenever they see problems.
Constant positive attitude is like adding more fuel to the fire so that we like an engine will have the energy and strength to carry us forward. We will be able to see the beautiful fire sparkles and enjoy the warmth it provides. Negative attitude will be like adding water to the fire. Everything will be distinguished and there will be nothing left to see and we will feel cold.
So does positive attitude matter? Personally to me, it will be a big resounding YES. It is so important in life. So you have a choice to make today, do you want to add fuel or water to the fire? You make the decision and do remember that everything that goes on in our mind will become our reality.
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