Attitude is your response to a
situation, circumstance, person or an object. But the detailed definition
of attitude would be; a predisposition or tendency to respond positively or
negatively to a situation, circumstance, person, idea or an object. It
influences a person’s choice of action and response to challenges, incentives,
rewards etc. These are called stimuli. Stimuli are challenges, incentives and
rewards. Four major components of attitude are –
- Emotions and feelings
- Cognitive – belief or opinions held consciously
- Inclination for action , spontaneity
- Evaluative – positive or negative response to the stimuli
The first 3 components influence or
determine the 4th component.
The importance of Attitude can hardly
be exaggerated
It controls our lives. This is why
it is extremely important. We must also understand the difference between
positive and negative attitude. It is important to know what these both can do
for us.
Positive attitude brings strength,
energy, motivation and initiative.
Person with a positive attitude will
ask “How something can be done?”, rather than saying, “It is very difficult. We
don’t know whether it can be done or not.”
It gives you power over your
circumstances rather than your circumstances having power over you. That’s the
power of positive attitude; it gives YOU the power. You control circumstances,
rather than circumstances affecting you or your behavior.
It is also an understanding of the
fact that nothing can change until you change. Therefore, everything changes
once you change. You have to identify what are your habits, what are the things
that are holding you back. And you have to overcome those, and to overcome
those, you have to change.
It is necessary to train your mind
to see good in everything. To see something positive, so that it encourages you
to go ahead in whatever you are trying to do. Life is 10% of what happens to
you and 90% of how you react to it. Let’s make it positive.
It will be a good idea, to decide
and say it to yourself every morning that you will face everything that comes
to you today with a positive attitude. All things about you are important and
you should give importance to all those things. Only when you are careful about
everything around you, others will give you the respect you deserve.
While positive attitude will help
you in every aspect of life, negative mind will never give you a positive life.
It will create only negativity. Further, negative thoughts create negative
situations.
A bad attitude leads you nowhere.
You cannot go very far until you change it. Therefore, if you identify that
your attitude needs some enhancement, do it sooner than later. A person with
negative attitude sees difficulty in every opportunity. Whereas a positive
thinker, sees an opportunity in every difficulty. This is a big difference. How
can you change? You have to figure it out for yourself. Because it depends on
your habits.
Positive thoughts are good, but they
are not enough. They have to be followed with positive feelings and positive
actions. Actions are most important. Without actions you cannot have the
benefits of positive attitude. Attitude has to be supplemented and supported by
respective actions.
The only disability in life is bad
attitude. There is no reason why you should live with a disability which is
under your control. There are some difficulties we have to live with. But it’s
not so with your attitude. Your attitude is something you can change and the
best thing is to change it. Whenever you feel pain in your life, think about
its full form –
P – Positive
A – Attitude
I – In
N – Negative situation
If you have a tendency to self doubt
it keeps giving more negative energy to feed on. That means you are actually
attracting negativity. One American in his grey years said “my life has been
full of misfortunes which never took place”.
Another man had said, “I don’t have
time to hate people who hate me, because I am too busy loving people who love
me”.
Thanks for reading.
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