Your attitude determines your altitude of success, because your attitude influences your consistency, your commitment, and your work ethic.
Fine-tune your attitude so that you control your environment – not the other way around. Remember – if someone else can do it, so can you!
Most leaders will tell you that they developed a leader’s attitude well before their position became a reality.
They got their thinking right, which got their attitudes right, which got their actions right, which got their habits right. Also, they refused to be beaten mentally.
A great attitude will make you passionate about your purpose. If you still need an attitude role model, then find somebody who has already done what you want to do, and adopt his attitude.
That’s what other successful people do, because success breeds success, just as encouragement breeds success.
Wherever you are in comparison to where you want to be is really not that far away. At the end of the day, you have to want it badly enough in order to get it.
What kinds of things do you tell yourself every day? Throughout the day? Hopefully, it’s good stuff.
What you tell yourself lays the new foundation every day of how the rest of your life can be.
If you tell yourself good things, then you’re setting yourself up for success.
If you’re not telling yourself good things, then you’re subconsciously preparing yourself for something else.
When people keep telling themselves something, eventually they’ll go that direction and wind up there, good or bad.
You can be what you want to be if you are willing not only to think about what you want to become but to work in making it real.
All it takes is filling your mental reservoir with what you want in it and displacing what you don’t want in it. It works with physical reservoirs, and it will work with your mental one.
Keep pouring in what you do want until the stuff you don’t want is gone or extremely diluted. It’ll work if you’ll do it – if you’re willing to invest the mental energy and time to see it through.
Changing contents will cost you the same number of thoughts as not changing, because you’re still going to have thoughts.
The difference is the topics of conversation you’ll be having with yourself.
MARTY REEP
Author, Speaker
[…adapted from Marty’s book An Agreement with Life]
· American Marty Reep is the author of more than 20 books on Amazon and Scribd. He tries to motivate people to achieve their full potential and finds humor in the crazy things that happen every day. Marty has offered to contribute this weekly column in the Sunday Star to encourage Solomon Islanders to rise to their full potential.
