Monday, January 1, 2007

Attitude & Association


Our life is a reflection of our ATTITUDES! Our attitude contributes to our success.

A study attributed to Harvard University found that when a person gets a job or a promotion, 85% of the time, it’s because of his attitude and only 15% of the time, it’s because of intelligence and knowledge of specific facts and figures.

Can a student be a good student without a good attitude? As they say, the foundation of success regardless of our chosen profession is ATTITUDE.
“Charlie Tremendous Jones said that you will be the same person five years from now that you are today except for the books you read, the positive and educative tapes/CDs you listen to and the people you associate with. In other words, where you are five years from now will be determined by how far you have personally grown five years from now. You should be excited because it means that we can have more than we have because we can become more than we are. Since books, tapes/CDs, and people will be our main source for personal growth, let's take a look at each one and see how they can help us positively transform our lives.”

Research has found that most people never read another book from cover to cover the rest of their adult life. More astonishingly, 90% of the people won’t even go to the 2nd chapter. It’s learnt that the average child spends less than 2% of their free time reading and about 54% of their free time in front of the Television (either watching it or playing video games). There are a wealth of knowledge in books that can help us professionally and personally grow into the person we will need to be in order to achieve our goals. We suggest you read at least 10 pages of a good book a day. The key word is good.

What do most people listen to while driving in the morning on their way to work? That's right you guessed it the radio. When was the last time you listened to the radio and heard of all of the exciting, positive, and empowering things occurring in the World? It's time to turn your automobile into a moving University. There are tapes produced on just about every imaginable subject especially on personal growth related issues. Put in tapes/CDs that can help take you to the next level both personally and professionally and you will be pleasantly surprised at the results you get. The results will not come because of luck or fate. They will come because you will be operating within the guidelines of natural laws. And one of Nature's Laws is the Law of Sowing and Reaping which says that ‘as you Sow so shall you Reap’. By listening to good tape/Cd programs, you are Sowing the seeds of prosperity and as long as you keep Sowing those seeds and cultivating them, you have no other choice but to Reap the harvest of the seeds you planted. But, you plant the seeds on one season and harvest in another season.

The people you associate with will have a bigger influence on your success than any other factor. This is because when you're dealing with a human being, you are not only dealing with words, but you're also dealing with emotions. The emotions of love, hate, joy, sorrow, courage, fear, etc. Even though we don't like to admit it, we are more emotional in nature than rational.

The statement that says, Your Attitude Determines Your Altitude is very true. So every day in every way you want to work on improving your attitude because only then can we more effortlessly and easily move towards accomplishing our goals.

Can we now conclude that the foundation of success regardless of our chosen profession is our ATTITUDE?

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best INTEREST".

Anonymous

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