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The process of human change begins within us. We all have
tremendous potential. We all desire good results from our
efforts. Most of us are willing to work hard and to pay
the price that success and happiness demand.
Each of us has the ability to put our unique human
potential into action and to acquire a desired result. But
the one thing that determines the level of our potential,
that produces the intensity of our activity, and that
predicts the quality of the result we receive is our
attitude.
Attitude determines how much of the future we are allowed
to see. It decides the size of our dreams and influences
our determination when we are faced with new challenges.
No other person on earth has dominion over our attitude.
People can affect our attitude by teaching us poor thinking
habits or unintentionally misinforming us or providing us
with negative sources of influence, but no one can control
our attitude unless we voluntarily surrender that control.
No one else "makes us angry." We make ourselves angry
when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone
else may have done is irrelevant. We choose, not they.
They merely put our attitude to a test. If we select a
volatile attitude by becoming hostile, angry, jealous or
suspicious, then we have failed the test. If we condemn
ourselves by believing that we are unworthy, then again,
we have failed the test.
If we care at all about ourselves, then we must accept full
responsibility for our own feelings. We must learn to
guard against those feelings that have the capacity to lead
our attitude down the wrong path and to strengthen those
feelings that can lead us confidently into a better future.
If we want to receive the rewards the future holds in trust
for us, then we must exercise the most important choice
given to us as members of the human race by maintaining
total dominion over our attitude. Our attitude is an
asset, a treasure of great value, which must be protected
accordingly. Beware of the vandals and thieves among us
who would injure our positive attitude or seek to steal it
away.
Having the right attitude is one of the basics that success
requires. The combination of a sound personal philosophy
and a positive attitude about ourselves and the world
around us gives us an inner strength and a firm resolve
that influences all the other areas of our existence.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
This article was submitted by Jim Rohn, America's Foremost Business Philosopher.
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