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Attitudes
Defined
Attitudes are the established ways of responding to people and
situations that we have learned, based on the
beliefs, values and assumptions we
hold. Attitudes become manifest through your behavior.
The Power of Passion
Attitude
Drives Behavior
Attitudes drive behavior. Your body
language is a result of your mental attitude. By choosing your attitude you
get in that mood and send out a message that everyone understands, consciously
or unconsciously.
"Almost always, you have a choice as to what attitude to adopt.
There is nothing in any normal work situation that dictates you must react one
way or another. If you feel angry about something that happens, for instance,
that's how you choose to feel. Nothing in the event itself makes it absolutely
necessary for you to feel that way. It is your choice. And since you do have a
choice, most of the time you'll be better off if you choose to react in a
positive rather than a negative way."3
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Happiness Quotes
"People spend a lifetime searching for
happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions,
religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that
plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search
was within." –
Ramona L. Anderson...
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Yin and Yang of Happiness
The Power of
Positive Attitude
It is not what happens to you that counts. It is how you react to
what happens to you, especially when you have unexpected problems of any kind.
Learn and master powerful strategies you can use to keep
yourself thinking and acting positively and creatively.
Positive Attitude
Means Longer Life
If you want to live a longer, healthier life then
you need to develop and maintain a positive attitude – it's now a fact thanks to
a study from the two American Universities.5 Researchers followed and
studied 1500 people for 7-years. All 1500 were in good health when the study
started.
Researchers
followed how they aged by measuring such things as weight loss, walking speed,
exhaustion and the strength of their grip.

What exactly did they discover? They found that
people who maintained a positive attitude were significantly less likely to show
signs of aging, they were less likely to become frail and were more likely to be
stronger and healthier than those that had a negative attitude. If you have a
doom and gloom attitude you're actually killing yourself and at the very least –
you're negative attitude is just making you weaker.
Researchers found that a
positive thinking and attitude improved a
persons health because it made it more likely that they would
succeed in life. So
not only will a positive attitude help you be healthy and live longer – but it
also increases the likelihood that you will succeed.
Lead researcher Dr. Glenn Ostir explained it this
way: "I believe that there is a connection between
mind and body –
and that our thoughts and attitudes/emotions affect physical functioning, and
over all health, whether through direct mechanisms, such as immune function, or
indirect mechanisms, such as social support networks." ...
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A Leader's Mood: The Dimmer Switch of
Performance
How
do you work on attaining the consistent,
emotionally intelligent leadership
behaviors that breed success in yourself and others?
Here are a few other
suggestions to consider that can improve your and your team's performance...
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Leadership Attributes
Inspirational Leadership:
10
Roles
Inspirational leaders
create an
inspiring culture
within their organization.
They supply a shared
vision
and
inspire
people to achieve more than they may ever have dreamed possible.
They are able to articulate a shared vision in
a way that inspires others to act.
People do what they have to do for a
manager. Inspired and
energized
people do their best for an inspirational leader...
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12 Leadership Roles
Attitude Motivation
Attitude motivation is about how people think and feel. "It
is their self-confidence, their belief in themselves, their attitude to life
– be it positive or negative. It is how they feel about the future and how
they react to the past."2
Attitude Is Infectious
Your attitude is the first thing
people pick up on in face-to-face communication.1
Just as laughing, yawning, and crying are
infectious, attitude is infectious. Before you say a word, your attitudes can
infect the people who see you with the same behavior. Somehow just by looking or
feeling, you can be infected by another person's attitude, and vice versa.
When you are operating from inside a really useful attitude, such as enthusiasm,
curiosity, and humility, your
body language tends to take care of itself and sends out unmistakable
signals of openness.
Inspirational Business Plan: Successful Innovation
Brief History:
"The great accomplishments
of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and
enthusiasm."
–
Thomas J. Watson...
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Steve Jobs' 12 Rules of Success
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Do
what you love to do.
Find your true passion. Do
what you love to do a make a difference! The
only way to do great work is to
love what you do...
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Unlock Your Creativity
Creativity is not about inventing something totally new, it is about
making new connections.
You don't have to be a special kind of person
to be creative – everyone can do it. It's not about who you are, it's about
what you do. You just need to start looking for multiple solutions rather
than settling for just one, and give yourself permission to be playful and
inquisitive, flexible and versatile...
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Case in Point
Entrepreneurial Creativity
Source: "How To Generate Great Ideas", Barrie
Hawkins
Over the years of teaching his ideas generation courses,
Barrie Hawkins has met thousands of would-be
entrepreneurs. Some people were not very
good at producing ideas and others were quite good at generating ideas. Some
people were very good at it. And a few people
had a terrific ability to generate ideas. What makes the
difference? Why is it that once we have learnt the techniques and practiced
them some of us are so much better at generating ideas?
The difference between more and less
creative people is their
attitude towards the problems they face
and how they view them.
Yin and Yang of Entrepreneurial Creativity
The Low of Forced Efficiency
This law says that, "There is never
enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to
do the most important thing."
The key question you should ask is
"What is the most valuable use of my time, right now?" This is
the question that dominates time management. This is the key to
overcoming procrastination and becoming a highly productive
person...
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The Power of
Gratitude
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It
turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a
house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our
past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."
– Melody Beattie
Effective Problem Solving
When you think of problems
you'll only attract more problems. When you think of solutions – you'll attract
solutions and opportunities.
Approach the problem with the expectant attitude that there is an innovative
practical solution just waiting to be found. Be relaxed, confident and
clear in your mind.
Managing Cross-Cultural Differences
Some aspects of
culture
are easy to see, the obvious things like art and music and that important
thing in business terms, behavior. However, the significant and most
challenging parts of other cultures are hidden. These might include our
beliefs, values, expectations,
attitudes, and assumptions... More
Case in Point
Canon
Production System (CPS)
Being a part of the
Canon Production System (CPS),
the
Five Ss movement helped change attitudes. Employees started readily
follow workplace rules that previously had been difficult to employ.
As a result,
performance measures such as defect rates, equipment breakdowns, and
number of accidents have all been improved...
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