Feb
08
2010
Few things can affect your overall quality of life as powerfully as your attitude can. Your attitude affects your career, your relationships, your hobbies, and even your financial status. Most people discover that when they improve their attitude, everything else in their lives seems to improve also.
A daily practice of gratitude is one simple way to give yourself a painless attitude adjustment because it reduces your temptation to focus on more “negative” mind-sets. When you feel grateful it is nearly impossible to feel frustrated, sad, empty, or disconnected. A negative focus and a gratitude focus cannot co-exist! They are opposites and will repel each other.
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Tags: attitude, Gratitude, Law of Attraction, Positive Attitude
Dec
26
2009
Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
How many times have your own thoughts worked against you? Whether you turned a mild concern into a major anxiety attack or you let fear hold you back from doing something you really wanted to do, your perceptions have everything to do with your life as it is today.
The way you see the world around you determines the way you feel about yourself, your potential, and your progress. A perception of limitation will convince you that you can’t move forward. A perception of lack can convince you that your life is barren and empty of opportunities. A perception of injustice will convince you that you’ll always lose – one way or another.
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Tags: attitude, beliefs, Law of Attraction, perceptions, Positive Thinking
May
29
2009
by Michael Angier
“We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.” -Marcel Proust
I ran into an old acquaintance of mine awhile back and in the course of our conversation we got around to asking what each of us was doing. When I told him about my company, he said, “Oh, you’re in the motivation business.”
I acknowledged that motivation was part of what we did, even though that’s not quite the way I would have described it.
But then he said something interesting. He said, “I’ve tried that stuff before-went to hear one of those motivational speakers-but it didn’t last more than a day or so.”
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Tags: attitude, inspiration, inspired, motivate, Motivation, uplifting
Wendy Betterini has spent much of her writing career empowering people to transform their lives by changing their thoughts. All change begins within.