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If we are the products of our attitudes then it is important for us to
examine our attitudes, both positive and negative, to discover the
impact they are having on our lives. This is even more important if we
are determined to maximize the potential that is ours, a potential
which, in the vast majority of us, remains grossly underdeveloped.
Positive attitudes release a power to achieve that will astound you,
while negative attitudes severely hamper our becoming the people we are
capable of becoming. It become the central task of anyone interested in
actualizing their enormous potential to become involved in the process
of attitudinal transformation.
Attitudinal transformation takes time, effort and determination but it
can be done. Don't expect perfection, just progress. It took a long time
to develop negative attitudes and it will take time to transform them.
It is also important not to concentrate on more than one or two
negative attitudes at once. If you overload your agenda for change you
run the risk of becoming discouraged and giving up.
Once you have identified the negative attitude you wish to transform,
commit yourself to the process of becoming conscious of that attitude
cropping up throughout the day. You will be surprised at how quickly you
will become aware of your target attitude. When you are focussed on the
attitude, visualize it leaving your body and flying off into the great
beyond. Now replace it with a positive attitude and give yourself the
suggestion that from now on this will be your dominant thought pattern.
Whenever your old negative attitude creeps back into your mind engage
this process of thought replacement. Soon the new attitude will become
dominant and you will find yourself enjoying its positive power in your
life.
Be gentle with yourself when you fall back into the old pattern of
thinking. Believe that the change you desire will come more frequently
and it will. It might help to remember that human beings use between 2
and ten percent of their mind's potential so you have a huge reservoir
of unused potential to help you over any periods of discouragement.
Don't forget to continue to use humour to keep your spirits up and put
the entire process in perspective. HUMOUR
MAKES GOOD THINGS HAPPEN.
This is an excerpt from
Mike Moore's book EMBRACING THE MYSTERY
Author's URLS:
http://www.motivationalplus.com
http://www.speakforprofit.com
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