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I AM YOUR ATTITUDE! I AM YOUR MASTER. I can make you rise or fall. I can make you a success or failure. I can work for or against you. I control your feelings and actions. I can make your heart sing with happiness. I can make you wretched, dejected, or morbid. I can make you angry and resentful. I can make you lonely, discouraged or depressed. I can make you sick, listless. I can be a shackle, heavy and burdensome. I can be a prism's hue, dancing bright and colorful. I can be nurtured and grown to be beautiful. I can never be removed, only replaced. I AM YOUR ATTITUDE! (author unknown) As humans, we have a very wide spectrum of emotions and we all have our "moments" -- those moments of doubt, or sadness, or rage, or misery. It's my fervent belief that we must, must, must remember that all emotions are choices and we hold the key to whether we're going to allow an emotion to get us and keep us down or not. We choose to have and to hold the thoughts and emotions we experience every day. And with that choice comes a responsibility. When someone cuts us off in traffic or is wildly inconsiderate, we can either give them the horn (or the finger) and follow them at an uncomfortably close range, or we can let it go and not allow it to stick. I'm not saying this is easy. In fact, it can be really tough at first. The world is increasingly more and more crowded. Some people have no manners and they don't care that you are unhappy with or inconvenienced with how rude or inconsiderate they are. It's your choice how you process what comes at you from external (and internal) challenges. Of course, there are moments when confrontation is necessary, but is it really necessary or worth it to confront over everything? Someone "steals" your parking spot. . . do you make a huge deal out of it, or do you continue on and find your own parking spot? Even I have moments which are not ideal. I've come to realize, however, that these down times are totally unproductive and I have learned to reorient myself by enlarging the frame through which I'm viewing any given situation. I've recently become aware of a technique that helps to remove you from the negative mindsets we can sometimes get in and prevent them from keeping us stuck. Here's what you do: Smile. That's it. Putting a smile on your face, a wide grin, really getting your dimples involved, this tricks yourself into feeling better. Don't take my word for it, try it. You're telling your unconscious that you are choosing not to dwell on the negative. You are becoming the master of your attitude. Think of the people that are inconsiderate or rude, not as people who are trying to screw up your day, but as people who are testing your resolve to have a good attitude.
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Kenrick Cleveland teaches techniques to earn the business of wealthy prospects using persuasion. He runs public and private seminars and offers home study courses and coaching programs in persuasion techniques.
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