I AM YOUR ATTITUDE! I AM YOUR MASTER. I can make you rise or fall. I can make you a success or failure. I can work for or against you. I control your feelings and actions. I can make your heart sing with happiness. I can make you wretched, dejected, or morbid. I can make you angry and resentful. I can make you lonely, discouraged or depressed. I can make you sick, listless. I can be a shackle, heavy and burdensome. I can be a prism's hue, dancing bright and colorful. I can be nurtured and grown to be beautiful. I can never be removed, only replaced. I AM YOUR ATTITUDE! (author unknown)
It's human nature to have low points -- moments of doubt, or sadness, or feeling down, or road rage. We all have the spectrum of emotions bliss to sorrow, joy to misery. It's key to remember that all emotions are choices.
This means that we have choices in how we experience our every day lives. It's a responsibility. When we're cut off in traffic, we can choose to blow the horn or give the finger, or we can simply let it go and not let it stick to us.
I'm not saying this is easy. In fact, it can be really tough at first. The world is increasingly more and more crowded. Some people have no manners and they don't care that you are unhappy with or inconvenienced with how rude or inconsiderate they are. It's your choice how you process what comes at you from external (and internal) challenges.
I'm not saying there's no place for confrontation in life, but there is a time and place for everything and not every situation requires that level of intensity. If someone "steals" your parking spot, you can make a big deal out of it, or you can go find another one.
Even I have moments which are not ideal. I've come to realize, however, that these down times are totally unproductive and I have learned to reorient myself by enlarging the frame through which I'm viewing any given situation.
One readjustment I recently heard about is this: say you've gotten yourself into one of these moments, an angry or enraged or sad moment, and you are sitting there stewing in it but don't want to let it linger. As incongruous as this might feel, smile. Put a big fat grin on your face. Let those dimples come out. In doing this, you are very consciously choosing to not stew. And you are also tricking yourself into feeling better.
You are becoming the master of your attitude. Think of the people that are inconsiderate or rude, not as people who are trying to screw up your day, but as people who are testing your resolve to have a good attitude.
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