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By
Terry Orr
“Your
attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectations.” ~ Samuel
Johnson
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Eons ago at my first duty station in Jacksonville,
Florida my coffee cup with the following expression written “No
Job is too big or small – Can Do.” As a naive young sailor that I was – truly
believed it then – as I do today.
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“Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them
is what makes life meaningful.” ~ Stephen Levine
Bill Bayesian, author
of “Developing
The Mind of a Leader” and his blog site Bill Boyajian Associates is
spot on within his assessment - Attitude
isn't everything, but it sure means a lot. Your attitude is crucial to your leadership
because it demonstrates who you are and what you're like on the inside. Our
outer expressions are always a result of our inner feelings. Leaders put aside
their personal preferences to get the job done.
Abraham Lincoln said
it this way: "I have noticed that
folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
The link to Bill blog
site is listed below and I encourage you to read this entire article – very
insightful and interesting read.
“The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery
that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change
the outer aspects of their lives.” ~ Anonymous
Craig Jarrow – author of Time Management Ninja and
Time
Management Ninja blog site – wrote an interesting article in February
of this year titled “21 Ways to Define a Positive Attitude.”
Here are a few that really stuck home:
- It is looking adversity in the eye…and laughing;.
- Motivating those around you with a positive word;
- Being friendly to those you don’t know;
- It’s getting back up when you fall down. (No matter how many times you fall down.);
- Understanding that relationships are more important than material things;
- Paying a compliment, even to a total strange;
- Not letting other people’s negativity bring you down; and
- Being true to yourself… always.
“You cannot tailor
make the situations in life, but you can tailor make the attitudes to fit those
situations before they arise.” ~ Earl Nightingale
Jan Malloch of Power
Positive Now blog writes in her article – “7 Benefits of Having a Positive
Attitude” - they are:
- Perhaps the most important benefit is better health;
- Positive thinkers have less stress in their lives and have much more control over how they react to events;
- It is probably fair to say that those with a positive attitude will have more friends and a better social life;
- Positive people will be more confident. They look forward to meeting others and accepting daily challenges;
- They will also have a greater belief in their own abilities;
- Positive thinkers enjoy life more; and
- Optimists look forward to the future.
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“Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you
feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice
which says, “This is the real me,” and when you have found that attitude,
follow it.” ~ Helen Keller
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As mentioned frequently, I see the glass of life
half-full with lots of opportunities, challenges to excel at solving and to
learn something new – and long the way to help others during the process.
Today – the information available us has exponentially
increase over the past two decades in particular. Review these links provide just the tip of the
ice burg and we hope you will take time to review them, learn from and enjoy
them.
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