“It is our attitude towards life which will determine life’s

attitude towards us” .” - Earl Nigthingale

What is Attitude:

Earl Nightingale called it the Magic Word – It truly is if you take the time to really understand it and become aware of your own attitude to everything including yourself.

If you can remember back to when you were in school and you said or heard someone else say:

I hate math's or history or in my case Irish. It doesn’t matter what the subject was because of the attitude you carried into each lesson you already put yourself in a negative vibration which meant your fate was already determined and you/I were highly unlikely to get good grades in that subject.

A poor attitude towards learning and you won’t learn much which means we can’t grow and understand new things and therefore remain ignorant to them whatever they might be.

If we say we can’t do something we generally won’t be able to, or it will make it very difficult for us to do it. An attitude of failure like this and you are doomed to fail before the start.

If you think about it what we get out of life, what we accomplish or fail to accomplish is a lot to do with our attitude.

William James of Harvard University said:

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind”.

So how does our attitude affect everything we do especially during tough times like so many in the world have faced over the past 12 months?

Our attitude is a composite of our:

1.    Thoughts

2.    Feelings

3.    Actions

The thoughts we allow into our mind and internalise turn into feelings and we then act on those feelings (our emotions) and it is those actions that give us the results we are currently getting.

The pandemic/virus is very real and yes, we must take it seriously and follow the advice from Government and health officials but what we need to do is control how we perceive everything around us (our environment). It is important we listen to the right source of information and switch off from the negative energy that comes from sources: people, papers, television, radio, social media platforms, and even loved ones. You know what I am talking about as we have all seen and heard content from these sources that tries to put fear into everyone of us and make sure we are in negative energy state. It is important we control what we allow into our mind. 

Jim Rohn said, "every day, stand guard at the door of your mind." 

You alone decide what thoughts & beliefs you let into your life! What we focus on shapes whether we feel frustrated & angry or excited & grateful, cursed or blessed.

In these times you need to remember to stand guard. If we don't discipline our fears & control our focus, the world will gladly do it for us.  

If we allow ourselves to be in an environment that is talking about how terrible everything is, your thoughts, feelings and actions will lead to negative results.

The Law of Polarity decrees everything in the universe has its opposite:

Hot – Cold

Good – Bad

Inside – Outside

You have a right side to your body a front and back. Every up has a down, and every down has an up.

The opposite of negative is positive, you therefore need to focus on the positive so that you can have the right attitude to everything you do and interact with:

• Your attitude to yourself

• Your attitude to your family

• Your attitude to friends

• Your attitude to job/career

• Your attitude to anyone you encounter or those around you

• Your attitude to your community/country

It is therefore critical you understand the attitude you currently have.   It takes a long time to truly understand it, you can be a positive optimistic person but still operate from a negative attitude. Anytime you are accepting ideas from lack, limitation, and scarcity, you are operating from a negative mental attitude, no matter how optimistic you are.

You need to really understand that, as we get to choose two things:

1.    Control what we think about.

2.    Control our attitude.

So, if we control those two things, no matter what is happening on the outside we can recalibrate it to what we want.

Our attitude is essential to our success (whatever success, or, been successful means to you) and so we must master our attitude to ourselves. When we do this, we are mastering ourselves. It is also something we need to work on daily so that we continue to grow as individuals and are in harmony with our purpose and values.

Take time today and everyday to really understand this and you will feel better and have a whole new outlook on how you think, feel and act in every situation. This will also have a dramatic impact on the results you get in life.

Walter Dale Scott of Northwestern University said:

“Success our failure in any undertaking is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities”

Bob Proctor explains What Attitude is:

Remember these key points from Earl Nightingale's The Magic Word:

1. It is our attitude at the beginning of a task which more than anything else will affect its successful outcome.

2. It is our attitude towards life which will determine life’s attitude towards us

3. We are interdependent, it is impossible to succeed without others and it is our attitude towards others which will determine their attitude towards us.

4. Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Since there is nothing at all to be gained by being negative be positive.

5. The deepest craving of human beings is to be needed, to be important, to be appreciated, give it to them and they will return it to you.

6. Treat everyone you, encounter with, as the most important person in the world.

Earl mentions others but I wanted to include the top ones here.