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
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