The Altitude of Attitude

The right attitude of rising to the occasion.

"Do not compare yourself to anyone if you do you are insulting yourself." God has created us differently so that we could and can complement each other. The secret to the whole equation lies in the manner in which we approach our purpose in life. Though it takes some time for us to realize our purpose, it is the attitude in which we approach our life's lessons.

It is through these lessons that we can derive our purpose, for attitude is contagious. The question is who's have you caught to be behaving as wildly as you do? Below are the twelve researched points on attitude:

1. It is your attitude to life that will determine life's attitude towards you, despite many people's belief to the contrary life pays no favorites.

2. You control your attitude. If you are negative it is because you have decided to be negative and not because of other people or circumstances.

3. Act as if you are having a good attitude. Remember actions trigger feelings just as feelings trigger actions.

4. Before a person can achieve the kind of result they want, they must first become a person. They must think, walk, talk, act and conduct themselves in all affairs as a person they wish to become.

5. Treat everybody as the most important person in the world.

6. Attitudes are based on assumptions, in order to change attitudes one must first change assumptions.

7. Develop the attitude that there are more reasons why you should succeed than reasons why you should fail.

8. When you are faced with a problem, adopt the attitude that you can and you will solve it.

9. We become what we think about. Control your thoughts and you will control your life.

10. Radiate the attitude of confidence of well being, of a person who knows where he / she is going. You will then find good things happening to right away.

11. In order to develop a good attitude, take charge first thing in the morning. Do you say "GOOD MORNING LORD" or "Good Lord Morning.

12. It is your attitude at the beginning of a task more than anything else that will determine your success or failure.

Attitudes are more important than facts.

If we were able to master the altitude of attitude we will be able to realize that all is based on the choices that we make, and understanding how they will affect and effect the future. The question is how? The answer Living outside the box.

Someone once said this about choices:

You choose to be cheerful or you choose to be gloomy.

You choose to be rude or you choose to be courteous.

You choose to be an asset to yourself or you choose to be a detriment to yourself.

Once you begin to understand that every choice has a result that can influence your goals and destiny, you place yourself in a position to become a winner. Can You? YES YOU CAN!!!

In this section we will be talking about a few points and facts that are a painful part of being who we are. Yes everybody has flaws but it is how you deal with them that makes you different. Other than the Chinese, the darkie nation has a major rate of unemployment, unwanted pregnancies, illiteracy, high criminal records, drop outs whether at primary secondary or tertiary level, ill health and poverty. The most interesting level of discussion would be the mental or psychological slavery that we are in that has also enslaved our spirit of creativity.

By virtue of talking to others we get to know that: the is a little difference in people and that difference is attitude, the big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

The positivity or negativity of that attitude is dependent on discipline. This would mean discipline of fatherhood as heads of the family, because of the nature of our gender we are required to take up certain roles. For if we do not take up those roles our world turns up the way it has. This is because we live with a dangerous epidemic I choose to call the ADAM syndrome, "BLAME." Although George W Bush was not one of America's most favorite president, he once said something of note "we are the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world." This man had an idea to describe us. In most white led companies blacks play a significantly major role. If we began to have to an attitude that freedom fighters across the world had, I do not think we would still be living in the conditions we are living in and with the mindset we are carrying around today.

Does this mean we are not learning from our mistakes? Is our society becoming a society of doom and gloom as perceived by our fairer skinned counterparts. Come on Africa we are constantly fighting and oppressing each other over petty issues. We plan rebelliously against each other in the hope that we can do better, knowing completely that the only thing we want out of the plan is POWER. Our presidents do not want to relinquish power or even share it. Much much respect to former president's of South Africa Mr. FW De Klerk and N R Mandela who where men of honor.

President De Klerk knew the calling and President Mandela was a true comrade and a soldier in the greatest army of armies, because the is no greater army than the army fighting for the liberation of God's people. President De Klerk head God's voice and president Mandela knew the mission and he created a world of opportunity by his conduct and ambition. If his idea of democracy and a free society for all cannot be recognized by us the generation of today, how do we expect to teach our children and them to leave a legacy for their children. Is possible to create a way to learn and put to use the wealth that lies in such action of humility.

If we continue to live our lives based on weekends and always looking forward to good time, how are we going to ever learn the secret of personal development. as it is we do not save enough money, for education, holidays or even security. We live expecting God to deliver manna from heaven yet we do not live according to his ways. We at times do not believe that he can provide the very same manna. It is true what they say about all work and no play, it does black a dull boy. When are we ever going to see and feel the Promised Land that Martin Luther King saw. Why is it that we cannot take and make use of the equal opportunities we have been provided with.

Africa what is happening to our sense of pride and belonging, it seems like we enjoy living from handouts. In December 11, 1999 mother Theresa upon receiving a Nobel peace prize said" love or charity begins at home" maybe I have a bizarre understanding of the statement, but I think if we loved ourselves enough we would be able to love others, just as the word of God guides us and orders us to do. If our love begun at home we would be able to love the world we live in and would have the edge to want to make it a better place for the entire human race. If only we could listen to Michael Jackson's message in his song heal the world. Then I feel would have a complete understanding of the sense of responsibility that God has put on our shoulders, not in pubs, prison, mortuaries, unemployment lines and hospices dying and blaming it on someone else. Maybe somebody must be blamed for not giving us the necessary resources or maybe we are not asking or even looking hard enough for those resources. I once met a guy who dropped out of high school because he thought school was wasting his time and he could have achieved what he wanted far quicker had he not spent all the time trying to learn in school. One of his goals was to fly aeroplanes, this young felt learning nautical miles, altitude, thrust, drag, north, east, south and west and other flight related knowledge was a complete waste of time. I thought that was rich and a great ambition; how smart of him only if he had not asked me for a cigarette, the same stuff that causes lung cancer and two bucks.

We put the blame on so many aspects of our lives and never on ourselves, but mostly on the education system we were taught under, yet that same education system produced world renown leaders such former state president of south Africa N.R Mandela, Mr. K Motlanthe the deputy former president of South Africa, Harpo founder Oprah Winfrey. Had not been for the educational background that my mother had received I would have not learned the lessons I have learned in this life time. Enough is enough darkie we need to change the way we do things now. It high time we reduce the awful state of living in our townships or ghettos. We need to stop seeing each other as objects of sexual indulgence and failure. We need to stop classifying things such as drunkenness, drugs and excessive partying as fun.

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