Hello John, hello everybody!
As I promised, here I am
again with something about ... attitude. It's a topic that I really like and I
hope many will find it interesting. I've read two funny but meaningful short
stories that I would like to share first:
In one of his books, John Maxwell said
an interesting story about attitude:
There were two shoemakers: one had a
negative attitude and the other had a positive one. Once the pessimistic
shoemaker went to a distant island to sell his shoes, but he came back home
disappointed, saying: “No one wears shoes here”.
The other shoemaker went there too, but he
came back overenthusiastic: “No one wears shoes there”, he said. “ I will make
my fortune on that island”.
The same reality, different attitudes,
different feelings, different results.
There is also another story I would like to
share:
David and Goliath are two famous characters.
Once, their armies were at war. When they
saw the huge, armed warrior, Goliath, David’s people said: “He is so huge…. He
will kill us!” but David said “ He is so huge, I won’t miss him”
„Attitude creates altitude”, as Zig Ziglar
said.
And here is the fragment:
„Have
you ever thought about what makes you say things like: “that guy has a great
attitude” or “boy, her attitude is really killing the team?” How do you know if
someone’s attitude is great or crummy? When most of us hear the word “attitude”
we think of a fuzzy concept that somehow makes us happy, sad, content or
frustrated.
How do Attitudes Develop?
Our
attitudes develop from repeatedly thinking, speaking and acting the same way,
over and over, until it becomes a stable and enduring way we behave – a habit.
Although we can hear and see our attitudes in the words and actions we choose,
attitudes start developing with our thoughts.
Our minds are our ultimate personal
computers! What we
program into them determines how they will function. The most powerful computer
ever made, programmed with the wrong software or bad data, will never function
to its capacity. For instance, just as we have viruses (bad data) in today’s
cyberworld, that cause computer malfunctions, our mental computers are also
susceptible to the data we put into them. If we choose to load them with bad
data, it will limit how effective or successful we will be.
Our
attitude is our personal boomerang to the world – whatever we throw out will
come back to us. Express
enthusiasm and it comes back. Offer a smile and it is returned. Start to gossip
and that’s what we will hear. Get frustrated about a team member and that’s
what we will see. Help a colleague and we will find a helping hand. This
boomerang effect holds true for our thoughts about money, relationships,
self-worth, a performance goal, team building, a problem colleague or customer,
a new project or career.
„Orchestrating Attitude –
Getting the Best from Yourselves or Others” by Lee Colan
Best regards,
Cristina Stanca
