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Attitude for Life

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.

Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home.

The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

It is said that life is 10% what happens to people and 90% how they react to it.

And so it is with you and I... we are in charge of our attitudes.

Attitude Makes The Difference

"Don't get an advanced case of sinking thinking. Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude" -Zig Ziglar

Attitude Drives Behavior

Attitudes drive behavior. Your body language is a result of your mental attitude. By choosing your attitude you get in that mood and send out a message that everyone understands, consciously or unconsciously.

Almost always, you have a choice as to what attitude to adopt. There is nothing in any normal work situation that dictates you must react one way or another. If you feel angry about something that happens, for instance, that's how you choose to feel. Nothing in the event itself makes it absolutely necessary for you to feel that way. It is your choice. And since you do have a choice, most of the time you'll be better off if you choose to react in a positive rather than a negative way.

The Power of Positive Attitude

It is not what happens to you that counts. It is how you react to what happens to you, especially when you have unexpected problems of any kind. Learn and master powerful strategies you can use to keep yourself thinking and acting positively and creatively.

Positive Attitude Means Longer Life

If you want to live a longer, healthier life then you need to develop and maintain a positive attitude – it's now a fact thanks to a study from the two American Universities.5 Researchers followed and studied 1500 people for 7-years. All 1500 were in good health when the study started. Researchers followed how they aged by measuring such things as weight loss, walking speed, exhaustion and the strength of their grip.

What exactly did they discover? They found that people who maintained a positive attitude were significantly less likely to show signs of aging, they were less likely to become frail and were more likely to be stronger and healthier than those that had a negative attitude. If you have a doom and gloom attitude you're actually killing yourself and at the very least – you're negative attitude is just making you weaker.

Researchers found that a positive thinking and attitude improved a persons health because it made it more likely that they would succeed in life. So not only will a positive attitude help you be healthy and live longer – but it also increases the likelihood that you will succeed.

Lead researcher Dr. Glenn Ostir explained it this way: "I believe that there is a connection between mind and body – and that our thoughts and attitudes/emotions affect physical functioning, and over all health, whether through direct mechanisms, such as immune function, or indirect mechanisms, such as social support networks."

Attitude Motivation

Attitude motivation is about how people think and feel. "It is their self-confidence, their belief in themselves, their attitude to life – be it positive or negative. It is how they feel about the future and how they react to the past."2

Attitude Is Infectious

Your attitude is the first thing people pick up on in face-to-face communication.1 Just as laughing, yawning, and crying are infectious, attitude is infectious. Before you say a word, your attitudes can infect the people who see you with the same behavior. Somehow just by looking or feeling, you can be infected by another person's attitude, and vice versa. When you are operating from inside a really useful attitude, such as enthusiasm, curiosity, and humility, your body language tends to take care of itself and sends out unmistakable signals of openness.

Do What You Can, With What You Have

Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA

Theodore Roosevelt Quotes:

It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

When President McKinley was shot in 1901, Theodore Roosevelt became the youngest person ever to become President. He was only 42. A dynamic nationalist, Roosevelt was a popular and controversial president. He greatly expanded presidential power and made the United States the virtual guardian of the Western Hemisphere and a major force in European and Far Eastern affairs. He was also the first president-reformer of the modern era supporting the technological revolution and a nationwide system of commerce and industry. His policies advanced the cause of conservation and the need to conserve natural resources. He increased regulation of business and stimulated the rise of the welfare state.

Roosevelt had great personal charm, remarkable intellectual humility, and a genuine commitment to peace in the abstract. Despite extraordinary services to world peace while president, he came close to being a lover of war. He could be self-righteous and ruthless and his curiosity and his intellectual achievements was the most wide ranging since President Thomas Jefferson.

Roosevelt left the White House and the Presidency in 1909, traveled the world extensively, and then entered and lost the presidential election of 1912 to Woodrow Wilson.

Recurring bouts with malarial fever, picked up during his travels, sapped Roosevelt's strength during his last years. Roosevelt died in his sleep in the "Gate Room" at his home on Sagamore Hill early on the morning of January 6, 1919 from a pulmonary embolism. His son Archie sent a cable to his brothers, "The old lion is dead." He was buried without eulogy, music, or military honors in a plain oak casket at Sagamore Hill

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

During a nearly eight-year presidency, Theodore Roosevelt transformed the United States into a world power and the federal government into a vigorous regulator of the industrializing domestic economy. Roosevelt was a frail boy who became a strong man; a soldier who won the Nobel Prize for Peace; a big-game hunter who founded the National Wildlife Refuge System; a historian whose freewheeling revision of the Monroe Doctrine was ultimately dismantled by his fifth cousin Franklin. Above all, he was the son of an elite New York Knickerbocker family who promised “a square deal” for ordinary Americans, taking on powerful lobbies to strengthen the Interstate Commerce Commission, establish the Department of Labor and Commerce, pass the Pure Food and Drug and Meat Inspection acts, and file dozens of federal suits against monopolies. Raised by his father to believe in his civic responsibility, certain of his ability to determine what was right, he possessed in abundance the intellectual and physical energies, political acuity, social standing, and charisma to realize many of his convictions.

Roosevelt graduated from Harvard in 1880 and studied law at Columbia before leaving to assume a seat in the state assembly in 1882. In 1902 he became the first president since Washington to make an official visit to Columbia, attending the installation of his friend and political ally Nicholas Murray Butler as president of the University.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

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