Attitude: Creating Positive Attitude

Some people are perceived as victors : consider Olympic gold medalists, victorious over all competitors. Some people are perceived as victims : consider…

It is fascinating to watch how people respond to errors at work. Reaction to errors, their own errors and other people's errors, tells you a lot about…

Some people naturally repulse criticism. These people may show outward signs of their repulsion. These people may not show outward signs, or their repulsion…

Some people complain about the interpersonal damages done by office conflict while others applaud the value office conflicts have injected into innovative…

The Thinking Behind The Tweet The cornerstone of our personality , our mental attitude , shows up as the general flavour of our thoughts...as illustrated in…

A number of years ago, I posted the following thoughts about how to kill good ideas. It is interesting to see a number of people liked the contrarian…

A strong desire to achieve promotes self-confidence . Positive self-image and high self-esteem promote self-confidence. Sense of purpose and goals promote…

I found myself comparing business success to sports success. I concluded it would definitely fall in the zone of some sort of endurance competition…an…

You have a choice in business. You can choose to pay your bills on time or you can choose to not pay your bills on time. As a general rule, people who choose…

Confidence is a personal thing. There is no reason to design your self-confidence in a way that fits someone else’s viewpoint or rules. Your self-confidence…

It doesn't matter what you've done or what you know or even who you know. What matters is what you're going to do next and, of more importance, whether or…

Business people say... I want to understand my role, the contribution I am to make, and how it fits in with team contributions and company success. I want to…

In our lexicon self-consciousness has a weakness connotation. We have been conditioned to think of ' self-conscious ' people as timid people, people who…

Above and beyond everything else, Courage is the mind state that promotes positive mental attitude. Like every other mind state, with focused and persistent…

Some followers are intimidated by Leader's self-confidence . Here are some Spirited suggestions, to help you make sure you do not come across that way: Be…

Strong people tend to measure their progress: strong people enjoy adding their own weights. No strong person will tolerate people who 'just keep adding…

Hope is a wonderful ‘background mindset’, For example, hope either inspires or opens the mind to accept inspiration. Hope is not a strategy but it is an…

Indiana Jones reminded us that you don’t have to see the whole staircase to take the first step. A journey of a thousand miles always starts with a single…

Forgetfulness plagues us all. At least from time to time, everyone forgets things. We forget things on our shopping lists, we forget the places where things…

I think there are 2 types of busy in business: 1. There's good-busy 2. There's ?-busy When business people tell me they are 'too-busy' I am uneasy because I…

Values are concepts covering things important and admirable to us (our minds). Values are our perceptions of intrinsically valuable or desirable ways of…

Controlling biases & refusing to be offended: we have these two ways to reduce/remove the need to feel revenge. When we practice these two ways they become…

People can be funny creatures. As examples, some people... Never volunteer for new tasks, standing firmly even when the tasks are quick and easy. Refrain…

Fire when the cost of presence exceeds its value: that's on the self-serving end of things [...and that is one of the ends] Fire when bad habits violate…

Competition is a wonderful thing. And, competition has its limitations. If you (or your ego) approach life as if it's a series of competitive interactions…

Some humans cannot help themselves - they have a bad habit - they always crow when they know. When humans crow what they know it tends to be off-putting. It…

Instead of thinking Attitude is in the winner in a competition with Intelligence, understand Attitude is a subset of Intelligence or, better still…

Have you noticed when you truly believe something will happen you become calmer and have a greater clarity of focus? Have you noticed when you truly believe…

Hairy means covered in hair. Audacious at best means taking surprisingly bold risks and at worst being impudent and disrespectful . It seems some people buy…

Ready, willing and able… Isn't that a wonderful combination? How sad it is when two of them are there and the third fails to arrive. In particular, how sad…