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Is your attitude deterring your success?

31 May 2016

Two men look out of their prison bars, one man sees the mud and gets depressed whilst the other sees beautiful stars that warms his heart- attitude matters!


Have you ever woken up in the morning wondering what your day would be like? Have you ever woken up and actually told yourself today is 'going to be a good day!', 'it's going to be a productive day!' - It all starts with the moment you open your eyes, it begins with your first thought of the day.

A good attitude in a work place and in general in life is important to your success, what you give out is what you get in return. If you don't have the right attitude, you will feel that your job is more complicated, tedious or harder to execute, and everyday life challenges are more difficult to handle. With the right positive attitude you begin to love what you do and what you love drives your accomplishments and ultimately your success. Zig Ziglar said; "you cannot tailor make the situations in life but you can tailor make the attitude to fit those situations"

They say the mind is a powerful tool, the more you complain about your surroundings the more you become unhappy. Attitude is a master key to success, the better your attitude to a problem the faster you are able to come up with a solution. Positive thinking motivates not only yourself but the people within your space; positivity is known to defeat all negative odds against you.


Here are 8 few tips on how to improve your attitude:-

  1. Always tell yourself that you are amazing: As Eleanor Roosevelt said: 'nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent'. Take a closer look at what your internal dialogue is, override this with a positive dialogue.
  2. A positive greeting: When people ask you how you are, always respond positively even though you may be facing challenges. Life is a gift, embrace it. People like working with positive attitudes.
  3. Visualisation is important to keep a good attitude: The late president, Mandela wrote in his book about how he visualised his freedom and what he would do when he was free and that this helped him stay positive.
  4. Be Enthusiastic: Many say that enthusiasm is to attitude what breathing is to life. People flock around enthusiastic individuals as it motivates and inspires them to do and be better.
  5. Be grateful: Take time every day to establish what you have and what you have accomplished. This will make you grateful and help improve your attitude
  6. Introduce humour to your life: It is important to allow yourself to have a good sense of humour, this will help reduce your stress levels and improve your attitude.
  7. The power of words: Have you heard of the concept of WOW- watch our words! You can create a path to success by what you say- speak positively.
  8. Exhibit a positive physiology: Always smile, dress in a way that makes you feel confident, use proper body language. All this means that you appreciate yourself and those around you and it reflects positively on who you are.

Remember these wise words: - Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. Thomas Jefferson.

The Working Earth has specialist recruitment staff that focus on both clients and candidates and will help you come off stronger than your competition. For more information contact us on 011 475 9668.

By Cleonia Rigney, Administrator, The Working Earth


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