Deliberate and Determined

Are you intentional in your actions? Are you tough minded in your actions? If you are, then you are both deliberate and determined; both qualities needed to have the right attitude for success.

To be deliberate doesn’t mean like when you was a child and you deliberately did something mean to your brother or sister. Yet in a fashion it does, you meant to do something, set your mind to it, and you did it! Now of course, you’re not setting your mind to deliberately do something to hurt another now, you are deliberately setting your mind to success. Once your mind is set, you can achieve it.

Determination plays a huge role in that as well. If you are not determined to beat all odds, you will fail. You have to have the drive and determination to win at all that you do and when you fail, have the determination to pick yourself up, brush yourself off, and forge ahead.

This week was themed the Right Attitude. The right attitude encompasses optimistic, objectivity, deliberate, and a determined personality. If you carry these traits in your daily life, you already contain the right attitude to succeed in anything you set out to achieve. Have an absolutely wonderful weekend!

Objectivity is the Right Attitude

Objectivity is everything people! If you cannot be objective and see all sides of something how can you make the right decision in anything? The right attitude has the ability to look at all angles of something and be objective. Just because you may think you are brilliant and all your ideas or thoughts are spot on, doesn’t necessarily make it true. By being narrow minded, you are missing a lot of creative and sometimes brilliant input that could be just the idea or thought that could put you over the top in sales or life period.

You have to be able to be honest with yourself. Be able to admit when you are wrong or that you have totally messed up while at the same time be able to give yourself credit when you come shinning through. Being honest with yourself only improves your self-esteem even when you are having to admit to a failure. It shows people you are human and that even in failure you can stand back and look at it objectively and take the corrective measure to make it right. Others can only respect a person like that.

The right attitude is able to look at themselves in all lights objectively. If you cannot do that, then you cannot make well-informed solid decisions, which is not the right attitude to achieve the success of your dreams.

Optimistically Positive

Yesterday I touched on having an optimistic attitude as being a part of the combination to the right attitude to succeed in anything you set your mind to. It is not just important to have an optimistic outlook, it is crucial! No matter what has happened in the past, only you can make a brighter tomorrow. The only way you can achieve that is by having an optimistic personality.

When you have an optimistic personality, good things just naturally happen for you. People enjoy being around you. You inspire others to put negativity at bay and bring out the best in them. There is definitely a connection between success and having an optimistic personality. So if you want to have the right attitude to move forward to the brightest future possible, ditch the negativity and let your optimistic side shine through.

Positively Optimistic

Good morning. In keeping with the theme of the week, The Right Attitude, I want to start by asking you how you felt this morning when you woke. Did you wake with a vibrant and positive attitude ready to take on the day? Or did you wake with an attitude that took a half a pot of coffee to get you heading in the right direction or did you wake with the attitude that you would just as soon go right back to bed?

Did you know that from the minute you rise could determine your entire outlook on your entire day? That is why it is so important to get enough sleep on a regular basis. Something I found a little funny while talking to a friend the other day when talking about sleep was she told me sleep was overrated. Now I have heard this said before. Things like you have plenty of time to sleep when you’re dead, time is a wasting so who has time for sleep, and other similar sayings all relating back as to why 8 hours of sleep are not in the books for them. Now I will be the first to admit that I have pulled some all nighters, and have lacked in sleep more times than I would like to count. However, I have always noticed that my productivity and my attitude is always better when I have had a good nights rest.

Now this brings me to my point, which is being optimistic. No matter how many hours you have to rest your weary body, you have to be optimistic. You have to put on a positive attitude and step up to the plate with a smile. If lack of sleep makes this a difficult task for you, then you really need to make sure you get adequate sleep nightly. If you can pull this off with just a few hours of sleep a night, then you have mastered the right attitude!

The Right Attitude

In business, you have to have the right attitude and this week we are going to discuss the right attitude it takes to make money and succeed in business and in life.

The right attitude will make the difference between success and failure, a hefty bank account or dust bunnies in your pocket. One thing everyone has to keep in mind is that the right attitude doesn’t just apply to the business world, but with family and friends as well - in all aspect of your life.

Part of having the right attitude is being a good leader. A good leader displays qualities to not only exhibit a positive attitude at all times, but the ability to inspire and motivate that same attitude in everyone around them.

Having the right attitude will motivate others to take their negative ways of thinking and turn them around. It will encourage others to see your way of thinking and more likely result in them coming on over to your side of things.

People want to succeed but having the wrong attitude will get in the way of that success. When you come across someone in your life that is notorious for having a negative attitude it is your job as a strong leader to either determine what the problem is and fix it to where their attitude changes, or to eliminate the negativity so it doesn’t reflect on the rest of your crew and your success. When it comes to success, it is true that one bad attitude in the group and cause failure if not put into check. Do you have the right attitude to keep yourself and life in check to succeed in all aspects of your life?

Full Friday

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I know I gained five pounds at least! It was great surrounding myself with family and friends and listening to them share their lives, the good, the bad, and the ugly. There were tears, and there was joy but most of all, there was thanks.

It is sad that we only really take once a year to give thanks for all that we have, all that is available to us, and all that is yet to come. So many things we take for granted and too much time we let pass without really sharing our thanks, especially to those that matter the most to us.

This is also a time though when we can take our thankfulness a step further and help out those who are still in need. It doesn’t necessarily take money, but just a little of your time, or belongings even that you no longer need or use. In closing, I am leaving you with some ideas in how you can give back, to share some of what has made you thankful this holiday season – this year, years past and years to come. Just think, if everyone gave back, just a little in whatever fashion they could showing their thanks for their own bounty just how much nicer of a world this would be.

Ideas for giving back:

Donate blankets to an Oncology unit in a Children’s Hospital.
Raise money for Cancer Research through bake sales, car washes, etc.
Donate used bikes to needy families.
Support and/or volunteer at your local YMCA.
Collect and donate personal care items to homeless shelters.
Volunteer time or animal food at local Animal Shelter.
Donate money/school supplies to local schools.
Help local elderly with yard care, meals, etc.
Donate clothing and infant to child supplies to local Child Welfare offices.
Send books, magazines, treats, personal care supplies, etc to our Soldiers.
Donate your time at any Nursing Home.

I am sure you can come up with a great many more ways you can give back. If it is as small as helping an elderly get their groceries to their car or as big as a large donation to your favorite charity, it doesn’t matter, as long as you are sharing your bounty back. Have a great weekend!

Happy Thanksgiving

Good MORNING and Happy Thanksgiving!! May your day be full of good eats, great conversation, and surrounded by love! I would like to leave you with a Thanksgiving poem I enjoy and my wishes for you to have a wonderful Thanksgiving Day!

BE THANKFUL

Be thankful that you don't already have everything you desire.
If you did, what would there be to look forward to?

Be thankful when you don't know something,
for it gives you the opportunity to learn.

Be thankful for the difficult times.
During those times you grow.

Be thankful for your limitations,
because they give you opportunities for improvement.

Be thankful for each new challenge,
because it will build your strength and character.

Be thankful for your mistakes.
They will teach you valuable lessons.

Be thankful when you're tired and weary,
because it means you've made a difference.

It's easy to be thankful for the good things.
A life of rich fulfillment comes to those who
are also thankful for the setbacks.

Gratitude can turn a negative into a positive.
Find a way to be thankful for your troubles,
and they can become your blessings.

~~Author Unknown.~~