It is impossible to overestimate the value of attitude. It is, without a question, the most important part of any self-help material you will come across. Because your attitude governs your mind, which governs everything. It’s the difference between a good athlete and a lousy one, a successful entrepreneur and a mediocre one, and a genius artist/musician from a mediocre one.
Build a Good Attitude.
Hamilton, our author today, was no stranger to challenges; at the age of two, he was diagnosed with a mysterious illness that caused him to stop developing. At one point, he was misdiagnosed with cystic fibrosis and told by doctors that he only had 6 months to live. Despite the fact that Hamilton only grew to be 5 feet 2 inches tall in his lifetime, diet and exercise were helpful in healing the ailment.
He didn’t let his disability stop him. In 1981, 1982, and 1983, Scott Hamilton won gold at the World Figure Skating Championships, as well as gold at the 1984 Winter Olympics.
Hamilton, on the other hand, isn’t the only one who has overcome enormous obstacles in their lives. President Abraham Lincoln, who rose from a barefooted poor youngster from Missouri to become a self-taught layer who eventually became the 16th President of the United States; Helen Keller, who was blind and deaf from a young age; and many others. The list of those who have conquered the odds by simply having a positive outlook is endless. A bad attitude can demolish any man’s or woman’s aspirations.
What is the secret to achieving the good mindset that we so often talk about? “Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out,” Art Link wrote in a letter. The most basic version of the magic formula would be this.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt won the presidential election in 1933 while campaigning in a wheelchair. He served in Congress as a handicapped person for four terms, from 1933 to 1945, during some of the most trying times his country has ever experienced, including the Great Depression and World War II.
Effect of Negative Attitude.
Hamilton is true when he states that the only handicap is a bad attitude. A negative attitude can make it difficult to find a job by behaving badly during interviews, it can cause marriages to fall apart, and it can lead to the use of illegal drugs or chemical dependency.
A negative attitude can keep an abused housewife with her violent husband till he beats her to death if we let it; if we let it, it can keep us all imprisoned to our own self-limitations. It leads to poor life decisions that lead nowhere and can leave us penniless social pawns. Those who choose the path of self-indulgence and self-pity that a bad attitude usually leads to will always have a tragic outcome.
It’s critical to make the most of your life, regardless of the cards you’ve been dealt, by smiling and facing each new day. Watch how much of a difference it makes if you approach it with a positive mindset. Life is ten percent what occurs to you and ninety percent how you handle it, according to someone. That is why maintaining a happy attitude is so important. Possessing a positive attitude empowers you, and you can empower others when you are empowered.
Give it a try today and put on your good attitude mask. Yes, you may have to fake it till you make it at times, but in the long run, having a good attitude will grow easier and easier until it becomes second nature to you. Today, choose to be empowered and welcome the day with a positive attitude!
