dhankhar
November 20th, 2005, 07:54 PM
Attitude is the switch that turns on everything else. when you master your attitude, you master your life. A study conducted at the Harvard University found that when a person succeeds and goes up the ladder, 85% of the time it is because of his attitude and only 15% of the time it is because of what he is or what he knows. In fact, even before people buy anything from you like services, goods or ideas – they first buy your attitude. The quality and effectiveness of your communication is a matter of your attitude. Your attitude means more to people than what you say to them. This is true not only from the corporate world perspective but also from our personal lives viewpoint.
Attitude has either made a person extremely successful or it has destroyed a person completely. So, the million dollar question that needs to be answered is – what kind of attitude do you need to cultivate to generate success?
There is a wonderful story of the three bricklayers at a new building site. A visitor walks over to the first bricklayer and asks “what are you doing?” the worker says “I am laying bricks.” the visitor then asks the same question to the second worker. The response he gets is “I am building a was,” finally the visitor asks this question to the third worker, who says “ I am building a hospital for the sick people, so that they can come here and get cured.” Now evaluate the three responses, the difference clearly is in their attitudes and which surely affects performance. How we think shows through in how we act.
You may be dead broke and that’s a reality, but in spirit you may be brimming over with optimism, joy and energy. The reality of life may result from many outside factors, none of which you can control. Your attitudes, however, reflect the ways in which you evaluate what is happening. Success is not something that you can run into by accident. It takes a lot of working on and character. Everyone likes to win but how many are willing to put in the many are willing to put in the effort and time needed to prepare to win . it takes sacrifice and self discipline. There is no replacement to hard work, honesty and discipline.
Death can not be predicted and thus we should live our lives like there is no tomorrow. We should give our 100% in everything we do like studying , playing etc.people with positive attitudes are confident, positive and caring. Positive attitude will help you achieve more in less time and will also help you to win friends and admirers. Success comes only to those who are bold, honest, those who never give up and those who learn from their mistakes. Good attitude helps you see the good in other people and also promotes peace and harmony.
Attitude has either made a person extremely successful or it has destroyed a person completely. So, the million dollar question that needs to be answered is – what kind of attitude do you need to cultivate to generate success?
There is a wonderful story of the three bricklayers at a new building site. A visitor walks over to the first bricklayer and asks “what are you doing?” the worker says “I am laying bricks.” the visitor then asks the same question to the second worker. The response he gets is “I am building a was,” finally the visitor asks this question to the third worker, who says “ I am building a hospital for the sick people, so that they can come here and get cured.” Now evaluate the three responses, the difference clearly is in their attitudes and which surely affects performance. How we think shows through in how we act.
You may be dead broke and that’s a reality, but in spirit you may be brimming over with optimism, joy and energy. The reality of life may result from many outside factors, none of which you can control. Your attitudes, however, reflect the ways in which you evaluate what is happening. Success is not something that you can run into by accident. It takes a lot of working on and character. Everyone likes to win but how many are willing to put in the many are willing to put in the effort and time needed to prepare to win . it takes sacrifice and self discipline. There is no replacement to hard work, honesty and discipline.
Death can not be predicted and thus we should live our lives like there is no tomorrow. We should give our 100% in everything we do like studying , playing etc.people with positive attitudes are confident, positive and caring. Positive attitude will help you achieve more in less time and will also help you to win friends and admirers. Success comes only to those who are bold, honest, those who never give up and those who learn from their mistakes. Good attitude helps you see the good in other people and also promotes peace and harmony.