What is Your Attitude? - Prof.M.S.Rao

"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude." - Bentley, Timothy



What is Attitude?

Attitude is all about how you think and present yourself to others. If you think positive, you get positive results and if you think negative, you get negative results. Whatever you want you will get, provided you have the right attitude. It is a mindset that takes you to tool set and skill set to be successful in your endeavors. Attitude is like your antenna. You can receive right signals only when your antenna is correctly placed.


Positive, Right & Strong Attitude:

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” - Winston Churchill

To be successful, you need to have not only positive attitude but also right attitude and strong attitude. For instance, mere thinking to become an engineer may not fulfill your desire to become an engineer. You need to put in your efforts and energies in a right way which calls for right attitude. If the students copy during examinations they may either be caught red handed or may come out with success. But such success will not last long. If the attitude is right it leads to putting in the efforts in a right way thereby getting the right results. Finally, mere positive and right attitude may not give the desired results. What is needed is the strong attitude to pursue whatever you want till the end. Hence, it is desirable to have positive attitude, right attitude and strong attitude to be successful in your own area of interest.


Diana as a Marketing Executive:

“The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.” - William James

Diana was an introvert and socially inept woman by nature. She did MBA in the domain of marketing. But marketing requires a separate skill set such as being extrovert, social, talkative and emotionally intelligent. She joined as a marketing executive in a multinational company where she had to constantly interact with her colleagues and also with her customers. She had to be social, talkative and extrovert. Initially she had lot of difficulties as her nature was not compatible with her professional duties. Gradually she changed herself to be successful so as to stay in the job and evolved as a successful marketing executive. How could she evolve as a successful marketing executive? It is basically because she changed her attitude as per her job profile and became successful. We need to change ourselves to be successful in the world with the changing times and it is possible only by changing our attitude.


Advantages of Attitude:

"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force." - Blandi Tom

It is the attitude that can bring hundred percent results in our lives. Attitude helps in enhancing our aptitude. Positive attitude helps in facing several challenges in our day to day life. It makes us competent and confident. It changes our perceptions about adversities. It minimizes conflicts and maximizes peace and tranquility. Attitude converts an ordinary person as an extraordinary person. It increases the productivity and performance at the workplace.


How to Build Your Attitude?

“Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles.” - Robert Brault

Positive, right and strong attitude can be built by deleting unwanted files from our minds. Our minds are cluttered with lot of unwanted information and data. We need to gradually remove the unwanted items and replace it with the areas of our interest.

Stay with positive and healthy people who will feed you with positive thoughts, ideas and information. It helps in filling our minds with positive attitude. Start the day with a positive note so that the entire day goes positively. When things are not favorable try to accept the realities, be flexible and mould yourself as per the situation with a right attitude.


Positive Vs Negative Attitude:

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” - Helen Keller

We can show our importance by helping not by harming people. It all depends on our attitude. For instance, if a doctor thinks of showing importance by saving the life of a patient then doctor has positive attitude. On the contrary, if the doctor thinks of showing importance by causing the death of a patient, it indicates negative attitude. If an engineer thinks of showing importance by building a great structure or dam, the engineer has a positive attitude. In contrast, if the engineer thinks of showing significance by collapsing then it is a negative attitude. Similarly, if a teacher shows importance by teaching and grooming a student then the teacher can win the hearts of the student through positive attitude. On the other hand, if the teacher shows importance by browbeating or bullying the student it demonstrates a negative attitude. To put in succinctly a person with positive attitude always thinks of helping and winning. In contrast, a person with negative attitude always thinks of harming and defeating others.


Conclusion:

"Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it." - Berlin, Irving

The common thread running across all successful people in the world is positive, right and strong attitude. It makes them rise above the rest. It makes the world to sit up and take notice. It differentiates between leaders and followers. Therefore, have a positive, right and strong attitude to grow personally, professionally and socially as a successful person as well as to bring difference in the lives of the people.


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