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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Personal Development - Is It All In Your Head?

There is a lot of information available online about Personal Development. There are a myriad of different, techniques, solutions, tapes, CDs, seminars etc. But have you ever been able to get them to work? Have you have tried everything on the market? Do you jump on all the new fads and courses? If you do and your life is still not working or you have come to the point where you are seriously starting to doubt if any of this stuff really works then you need to read this article now!

Does this sound like you?

Is nothing working in your life? No matter how many self improvement tapes you listen to do you just seem to be stuck on the same merry-go-round? Is your job is unsatisfying and do your personal relationships "suck"? Are your finances a mess and could your health be better? If can answer "yes" to any of these questions, or worse you can answer "yes" to all of them, then you need to set yourself straight in your own mind!

Firstly, all Personal Development and Self Improvement starts in the mind. All of your current circumstances started in your thoughts. Take a look around you right now. Seriously stop reading this and look around you for several seconds then come back to this article.

What you just saw is your "demonstration." Everything you see around you, you have attracted into your life - from the chair you are sitting in to the building you occupy. Look at your job - you chose to apply for it (or at least you chose to accept the position). Look at your home. You made the decision to live there. Look at your car, your spouse and your friends. Yep, you chose them all. You must realise then that to change these outer circumstances (the outer experience that stems from your decisions) you must first change yourself on the inside. You must change your decisions and your beliefs about what you are capable of achieving, having and deserving.

You feel terrible because your life is not how you want it to be. But the truth is "you always get more of what you focus on." Your life is terrible at the minute because you are focusing on it being bad and if you keep doing that it will just get worse. It's all in your head!

By learning to change your focus and moving your attention to the things that are working in your life you will create more of that. In time you will start to notice more and more of what you do want in life appearing. To change your focus you must first change the way you feel. Look for the things you are grateful for now. Give thanks for them.

Be thankful that you have a job and a roof over your head. Be grateful that you are not alone in life. Have gratitude for the money you do have. Give thanks that you are alive and capable of changing your current circumstances. Gratitude is the key that unlocks your unlimited potential.

I promise you that if you practise gratitude for only 15 minutes a day your focus will begin to change to the positive and within a month your life will being to change for the better. Within a year you and your outer world will be totally transformed.

If something undesirable happens look at your reaction to it. This tells a lot about your focus. Do you know that successful people have the belief that "everything happens for a reason?" They believe that somehow, someway there will be a positive outcome from it. They believe that there is an irresistible force at work in their lives directing them through thought, action and circumstance towards their own desires. This is merely a decision they made some time ago. They decided to think this way and continued to consciously do so until the thought became a dominant thought and a belief! It takes approximately 30 days to create a new belief (even shorter if you use hypnosis or certain personal development techniques).

Try this approach. You will be amazed at what happens. Just keep telling yourself "everything happens for a reason." Convince yourself that "every cloud has a silver lining" and it will become true for you. Re-direct your focus by being grateful for the things you do have in your life now. Open your vision to the abundance that is all around you even if you are not experiencing it first hand yet. If you can see it, it's in your experience. It only takes a slight shift in your attention to bring it directly to you!

Remember - it's all in your head!

Mark Ford is a home business coach and internet entrepreneur who publishes articles on a wide range of home based business and marketing topics.

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The 4 Powerful Ways to Change a Bad Habit... Jim Rohn

No one understands as I do the inherent difficulty in changing old and persistent habits. But habits begin to change when we begin to change our perceptions.

Most of us don’t experience a cataclysmic transformation. No, for most of us change comes as an evolutionary process of almost imperceptible changes. We just keep nudging ourselves in the right direction, forming one or two better habits.

But what really makes us sit up and take notice? What really causes us to shed our old habits and take action?

Disgust with ourselves.
Making a decision when our backs are to the wall.
Desire that won’t be extinguished.

Resolve to do or die.

Emotions are the most powerful forces inside us. Under the power of emotions, human beings can perform the most heroic (as well as barbaric) acts. To a great degree, civilization itself can be defined as the intelligent channeling of human emotion. Emotions are fuel and the mind is the pilot, which together propel the ship of civilized progress.

In this excerpt from 7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness, Jim Rohn describes four basic emotions that can trigger the most incredible activity. The day that you channel these emotions to fuel your desire is the day you’ll turn your life around.

1. Disgust

One does not usually equate the word “disgust” with positive action. And yet properly channeled, disgust can change a person’s life. The person who feels disgusted has reached a point of no return. He or she is ready to throw down the gauntlet at life and say, “I’ve had it!” That’s what I said after many humiliating experiences. At age 25, I said, “I don’t want to live like this anymore. I’ve had it with being broke. I’ve had it with being embarrassed, and I’ve had it with lying.”

Yes, productive feelings of disgust come when a person says, “Enough is enough.”

They’ve had it with mediocrity. They’ve had it with those awful sick feelings of fear, pain and humiliation. They decide they are not going to live like this anymore. Call it what you will, the “I’ve had it” day, the “never again” day, the “enough’s enough” day. Whatever you call it, it’s powerful! There is nothing so life-changing as gut-wrenching disgust!

2. Decision

Most of us need to be pushed to the wall to make decisions. And once we reach this point, we have to deal with the conflicting emotions that come with making them. We have reached a fork in the road. Now this fork can be a two-prong, three-prong or even a four-prong fork. No wonder that decision-making can create knots in stomachs, keep us awake in the middle of the night or make us break out in a cold sweat.

Making life-changing decisions can be likened to internal civil war. Conflicting armies of emotions, each with its own arsenal of reasons, battle each other for supremacy of our minds. And our resulting decisions, whether bold or timid, well thought out or impulsive, can either set the course of action or blind it. I don’t have much advice to give you about decision-making except this:

Whatever you do, don’t camp at the fork in the road. Decide. It’s far better to make a wrong decision than to not make one at all. Each of us must confront our emotional turmoil and sort out our feelings.

3. Desire

How does one gain desire? I don’t think I can answer this directly because there are many ways. But I do know two things about desire:

a. It comes from the inside, not the outside.
b. It can be triggered by outside forces.

Almost anything can trigger desire. It’s a matter of timing as much as preparation. It might be a song that tugs at the heart. It might be a memorable sermon. It might be a movie, a conversation with a friend, a confrontation with the enemy or a bitter experience. Even a book or an article such as this one can trigger the inner mechanism that will make some people say, “I want it now!”

Therefore, while searching for your “hot button” of pure, raw desire, welcome into your life each positive experience. Don’t erect a wall to protect you from experiencing life. The same wall that keeps out your disappointment also keeps out the sunlight of enriching experiences. So let life touch you. The next touch could be the one that turns your life around.

4. Resolve

Resolve says, “I will.” These two words are among the most potent in the English language. I will. Benjamin Disraeli, the great British statesman, once said, “Nothing can resist a human will that will stake even its existence on the extent of its purpose.” In other words, when someone resolves to “do or die,” nothing can stop him.

The mountain climber says, “I will climb the mountain. They’ve told me it’s too high, it’s too far, it’s too steep, it’s too rocky, it’s too difficult. But it’s my mountain. I will climb it. You’ll soon see me waving from the top or you’ll never see me, because unless I reach the peak, I’m not coming back.” Who can argue with such resolve?

When confronted with such iron-willed determination, I can see Time, Fate and Circumstance calling a hasty conference and deciding, “We might as well let him have his dream. He’s said he’s going to get there or die trying.”

The best definition for “resolve” I’ve ever heard came from a schoolgirl in Foster City, California. Many years ago, I was lecturing about success to a group of bright kids at a junior high school. I asked, “Who can tell me what ‘resolve’ means?” Several hands went up, and I did get some pretty good definitions. But the last was the best. A shy girl from the back of the room got up and said with quiet intensity, “I think resolve means promising yourself you will never give up.” That’s it! That’s the best definition I’ve ever heard: Promise yourself you’ll never give up.

Think about it! How long should a baby try to learn how to walk? How long would you give the average baby before you say, “That’s it, you’ve had your chance”? You say that’s crazy? Of course it is. Any mother would say, “My baby is going to keep trying until he learns how to walk!” No wonder everyone walks.

There is a vital lesson in this. Ask yourself, “How long am I going to work to make my dreams come true?” I suggest you answer, “As long as it takes.” That’s what these four emotions are all about.

So, are you emotionally charged and ready to get going on your goals? Find out what 7 steps you must take to achieve your dreams.

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Attitude of Gratitude: 5 Facts to Be Grateful For

Has your fast paced life and heavy workload kept you from enjoying what's around you?

When was the last time you had a good night sleep without having to take anything for it?

Do you recall the last time you took a few minutes just to savor the things that made you happy?

Here's a simple way to add more richness, relaxation, and rejuvenation into your busy work-life schedule. Try incorporating a regular dose of "Attitude of Gratitude" into your day. That's right: gratitude. This technique takes less than 1 minute to do and can boost your health and happiness with persistent practice.

First of all, let's get clear on, "what is gratitude?" Gratitude, according to Cicero, is the mother of all virtues. He said that within this simple gracious self-affirming act comes a cascade of many wonderful inner human qualities. Merriam Webster Dictionary defines gratitude as: a feeling of appreciation or thanks. Scientists since the late 1990's have studied this human quality and have found many health and happiness benefits with the constant practice of it.

Gratitude, according to Robert Emmons, the world's leading researcher in the science of gratitude, explains that gratitude has two parts. According to him, "First it's an affirmation of goodness. We affirm that there are good things in the world, gifts and benefits we've received." Second, he states that it is "a relationship-strengthening emotion because it requires us to see how we've been supported and affirmed by other people."

Here are some interesting facts about the practice of gratitude:

1. It leads to increasing levels of optimism and other positive emotions, which will eventually help you live a longer and happier life (R. Emmons and Sonja Lyubomirsky).

2. It's nearly impossible to be grateful and feel envious at the same time. The positive emotion of gratitude cancels out negative emotions (R. Emmons).

3. Grateful people sleep better (Wong Wing-Sze, et al).

4. Grateful people tend to exercise more than those who don't practice gratitude (R. Emmons).

5. Gratitude is an immune booster (R. Emmons and M. McCullough).

Are YOU ready to start applying this powerful technique into your life?

Here are 3 simple ways for you to choose from to begin your "attitude of gratitude" practice:

1. Do the 3 Blessings exercise, created by Robert Emmons, where you list the 3 things, big or small, that you consider being a positive experience.

2. Say more Thank You's to people around you --- especially when they seem to be correcting you. (A technique I learned from one of my Acupressure Shiatsu teacher, Caroline, over 10 years ago.) This made me feel less inadequate for making a mistake but appreciative for the potential for being better in my practice.

3. Just like the old saying, "Stop and smell the roses!" Literally stop and smell the beautiful scents of nature around you whether you are in your kitchen cooking up a quick meal or outside on your way to your car for an errand. Stop for 30 seconds and take in all the good around you.

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How Gratitude Serves You

Many times we get too busy trying to reach our goals, trying to acquire wealth and all the other good pleasures of life. We get choked by our regular activities that gratitude is pushed to a corner. We get overwhelmed by the many negative things that are happening around us. This write-up will help you focus on the positive side of life, read on...

Gratitude shifts your focus away from problems

When you are truly grateful for the things you have, you will automatically shift your focus away from lack and other problems. The ability to be grateful for the things you have is an ability you can decide to develop today. You can decide to see the good in everything that happens, you can decide to be thankful no matter what happens. When you develop the mindset that everything that happens to you happens for your good, things naturally begin to fall in place.

Gratitude attracts more of what you desire

The easiest and fastest way to get the things you desire is not to worry about them. Worrying doesn't solve anything, it doesn't attract good things to you. As a matter of fact, the things you worry about tend to happen most times. Gratitude repels the negative force of worrying, it diminishes your lack and helps you get more of those things that you desire. From this moment henceforth, be thankful for all you have and all you need will come to you. Use the force of gratitude to attract the things you need.

Gratitude gives strength and vitality to your body

A merry heart does well like medicine to the body. Ingratitude produces negative energies in your body, decreases your capacity to focus on tasks and greatly reduces your productivity. There is a strong connection between your mental and physical well-being. When you have a healthy mind, you have a healthy body. When you are grateful every time you build up a strong and healthy mind.

It takes just about the same effort to be grateful as it takes to be ungrateful. However it is much more beneficial for you to be grateful. From today, decide that nothing that happens will take away your ability to be grateful. Program your mind to think positively of everything that happens to you, surround yourself with positive people, read good books and listen to good music. Do not let anything steal away your ability to give THANKS.

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