Choose Your Own Adventure - Begin By Choosing Your Attitude

Choose Your Own Adventure - Begin By Choosing Your Attitude!

June 12th, 2009, Author: Nathan Hulls, Categories: Mindset Mondays, Personal Development

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Did you know that one of the only things we have control over in life is our attitude…

I’ve always lived by the belief that my destiny is not determined by the things which happen to me in my life, but by the choices that I make in response to those things.

There are so many aspects of life which we have no control over. The family we’re born into, our heritage, our race, our country of origin, even some of the things which happen to us in life, we’re often faced with suffering which is caused by other peoples poor decisions.

All that being true - we still never lose the ability to chose our attitude!

And as I heard once said - “Your Attitude Will Determine Your Altitude”

This was never more real in my life than throughout the past 5 years - you see my amazing mother (who’s now in heaven) lived her life with such a positive attitude. Even in the last 2 years of her life, when she had lost all physical control over her body, when she could no longer choose what actions she would take, she couldn’t feed herself, she couldn’t talk, she was no longer a person of value through what she could do or say, but she was person of value because of who she was and her attitude towards life.

She may have been locked in and trapped in a body which just wouldn’t function the way it was created to function, but her attitude was never even dented! She never lost her sense of humour, she never lost the smile on her face when family arrived to visit, or a new grand child was born. Her attitude was always one where she was going to make the most out of whatever life threw at her. On a side note, check out the book my dad wrote about the journey, its called “So Beautiful”

Now this is quite an extreme, yet real life example of our ability to choose our attitude no matter what hand we are delt but whether it be a life threatening illness, or something as simple as being a victim of crime, we are all faced with the decision each day - “What attitude will I adopt today?”

Will you make the most of what you’ve been given?

Will you journey the path to success (whatever success means to you) despite what life may throw at you?

No one in this world has the power to decide your attitude besides you! You have no one to blam for a bad attitude but yourself - and dont forget, “Your Attitude Will Determine Your Altitude”.

How high you fly, will be determined by the attitude you choose to adopt each day!

So here are 3 quick tips for you in determining your attitude each day:

1. Have an Attitude of Gratitude.

Be thankful for everything you have, no matter how significant or insignificant.

Be thankful for clothes, food, a roof over your head, air to breath, friends, family, life itself! Be Thankful!

2. Remember there Is Always Going To Be Someone In The World In A Worse Situation Than You.

No matter how bad you think things are - whether you have control over changing your situation or not - there will always be someone in the world who has it worse off, or tougher than you, so be thankful.

This always helps to reframe your situation - and realise that sure, things may not be great, but they could also be worse. It puts your situation in perspective, and allows you to begin to move forward.

If you pray, pray and thank God for the little things (as in the 1st step) Speaking out your thanks is a great way to change your mindset (there’s a whole other blog post in the power of words in changing your mindset) but physiologically its impossible to speak without your mind thinking the words you’re saying, so if you want to change your attitude and your mindset to be more thankful, start to verbalise your thanks, even if its just to yourself.

And finally…

3. Focus On Helping Others And You Will Discover Your Own Worries Start To Fix Themselves

Its amazing how when we change our focus and stop dwelling on the negative things in our lives that they somehow seem to magically get better.

Did you know that you move towards what you focus on?

Have you ever been driving, and seen something on the side of the road, and then found your car heading towards that thing you were looking at? Its much the same with our lives, we are drawn towards the things we focus on.

So its up to you to decide what you are going to focus on, your problems, or solutions, or even better, solutions for others - and as Zig Ziglar says “If you Want To Achieve Your Dreams, Help As Many Other People Achieve Theirs.”

I could spend hours, if not days talking about mindset and attitude, but I will leave it there for now… but promise me that you’ll go and spend 5 minutes being thankful for what you have, and make a habit of it, begin everyday with an attitude of gratitude!

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