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Success is a state of mind. If you want to be successful, start by thinking of yourself as a winner. Joyce Brothers.
Human beings can change their lives by changing their attitudes. William James.
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You were born a winner. You have within you the seeds of winners. But how can you fully become one, if you don’t see yourself as a winner? How can you dream of playing in the league of winners if you don’t believe in yourself, or in your ability to succeed?
Reading this article is sufficient proof that you have chosen to play in the league of winners and not in that of losers. However, to continue to play in this prestigious league and continue to enjoy all the advantages that such a position offers you, you must develop good and healthy mental attitudes. By good and healthy mental attitudes, I mean those that will allow you to stay on course towards the goal you want to achieve and enjoy the life of your dreams.
Many people don’t know why they do what they do, but they do it anyway. Some have never given themselves the time to set goals and move forward in their lives without knowing where they are going. Others spend their time blaming circumstances and events for which they can act but expect someone else to do it for them. While most people continue to do like everyone else – live like losers – you have chosen to make a difference: to have a good and healthy mental attitude.
Having the right mental attitude is often what makes the difference between success and what most people call failure. In fact, failure does not exist. It’s all about results. A winner never fails, Mistakes are an opportunity for him/her to learn to do better. The attitude with which you do what you do impacts the result as well as the satisfaction you get from doing what you do. Do you think the mental attitude of a person studying for a degree is like one studying for an education? And what about the mental attitude of a person who works for a salary compared to that of a person who works to advance his company’s business? In both cases, these people are doing the same things, but they are not doing it with the same mental attitude. And therefore, they cannot expect the same results, nor the same degree of satisfaction.
Earl Nightingale rightly asserts that it is our attitude towards life that determines life’s attitude towards us. In other words, what each of us will get out of life, greatly depends on our attitude towards life. If you think life is a place of suffering and you are in the world to suffer, what do you hope to achieve other than results that align with your expectations and aspirations? What you get out of life, what you accomplish or fail to accomplish depends greatly on your attitude towards life.
Also, experience still teaches us that those who do well in life are largely recruited among those who have a good attitude towards themselves. They have faith in themselves. They expect success and they often end up succeeding. Attitude is nothing but a composite of your thoughts, feelings, and emotions (Bob Proctor). And the results you get from life are nothing but the expression of your thoughts, feelings, and actions (Ralph Waldo Emerson).
Talking about attitude is first talking about yourself. Isn’t it your attitude towards yourself that determines your attitude towards others? If you want to see others smile at you, just smile at them. If you want others to treat you with respect, adopt an attitude of respect towards them. Treat everyone you meet as the most important person on earth. And others will return it to you.
A good and healthy attitude makes you enthusiastic and dynamic. Nothing has ever been accomplished without enthusiasm (Elbert Hubbard). Therefore, now you must adopt the attitude that corresponds to the result you seek to obtain. Act as if you already had that result. Adopt attitudes today that correspond to the person you want to become, the standard of living you want to enjoy, the life that will be yours when you achieve your goals. So, you can now change your life by changing your attitudes. The most important discovery of our time is that we can modify our existence by modifying our attitudes (William James quoted by Zig Ziglar). You must modify your attitudes, your actions, your strategies according to the means available (your assets, your skills, your qualifications etc.) and adapt them to the requirements (to the constraints) to increase your chances of success, if you want to continue to play in the winners’ league.
Coach Jacques Mutikwele
