Monday Morning Motivation ; Attitude is Everything

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Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. Attitude is simply a mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways. Simply put, it's the way we act due to the mental picture and belief system formed within us. This makes attitude a product of the mind; thoughts.

It is how you see the things around you, how you deal with the situations you face, and what you think about life. You've got to listen to yourself. If you sound like "God, my life is so difficult. I will never be rich... Everything works against me.... Everyone hates me...” then, you have a problem. Many times what hinders us from progressing in life and being the best is a negative attitude. A negative attitude is like a flat tyre, if you don't change it you're going nowhere.

Even though we can't control the obstacles on our ways, we can control our attitude. If you maintain a positive attitude no matter what the situation is, then you are on your way to becoming successful in life. Even failure has a lot of positive things in itself. You learn a lesson from your failure and every failure still brings you one step closer to your success.

Therefore as you step out this week, cultivate a positive attitude that attracts success and here's how to do that:

1. Listen to yourself
Start to listen to your thoughts, ideas, beliefs and commentaries. Every time you think something negative, think again. Try to find something positive in a situation. I believe in every situation there are two sides. Positive and negative. Try to focus on the positive one.

2. Get enough sleep
It seems obvious but many people don't get enough sleep at night. As a result they wake up tired and depressed. Right amount of sleep will boost your energy; you will be able to do things you planned to do without getting tired or overwhelmed.

3. Put things in perspective
If you find yourself getting stressed or frustrated take a step back and look at the bigger picture. Is your stress really worth it? Are your problems that big? Most of the time our problems don't seem that important when we take a look at life as a whole.

Your attitude is your choice. Every time you think about something or you want to do something, choose a positive attitude. It will always make your life happier and it will attract the success you are looking for. Your attitude not your aptitude determines your altitude in life.

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