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.
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