Attitude is Contagious
By Zig Ziglar
It is true that your attitude is contagious, so the question
is should someone catch yours or avoid yours?
Chuck Swindoll put it this way: “The longer I live, the more I realize
the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than
education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than
what other people think or say or do. It
is more important than appearance, gifted ability, or skill. It will make or break a company, a church, a
home.
“The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day
regarding the attitude we will embrace from that day. We cannot change our past, we cannot change
the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing that we can do is play on the one string that we have and
this string is, attitude. I am convinced
that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent how I react to
it. And so it is with you…we are in
charge of our attitudes.”
William James said, “The most important discovery of our
time is the discovery that man can alter his life by altering his
attitudes.” Perhaps the most extraordinary
example of this was that of Dr. Viktor Frankl, who was a prisoner in one of the
Nazi death camps. His book, Man’s Search
for Meaning, describes how he was stripped of all his worldly possessions, and
subjected to every cruel and debilitating treatment man is capable of imposing
on another. However, Dr. Frankl decided
that regardless of what they did to him, he was going to take charge of the way
he responded to those events. He wrote,
“One’s ultimate freedom is the ability to choose one’s attitude in any given
set of circumstances.”
Keep this in mind and subscribe to the conviction that it’s
your attitude and not your aptitude that will ultimately determine your
altitude. Take that approach and I’ll
SEE YOU AT THE TOP!
Zig Ziglar is known as America’s motivator. He is the author of 32 books. Check out his new book,
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