The Benefits oF a Positive AttiTude.

                               

There are many benefits of having a positive attitude. The advantages are easy to  see.  But unfortunately, sometimes what is easy to see is also easy to miss! A positive attitude :-

•  Makes for a pleasing personality

•  Is energizing & invigorating

•  Gives fulfilment and makes life meaningful

•  Inspires oneself and others

•  Helps people become contributing members and

•  assets to society

•  Increases productivity & profits

•  Fosters teamwork & better relationships

•  Solves problems & makes positive decisions

•  Brings pride in performance and improves quality

•  Makes for a congenial atmosphere

•  Breeds loyalty & dependability

•  Reduces stress & increases happiness

In other words, a positive attitude leads to a happy, healthy & prosperous life. THE CONSEQUENCES OF A NEGATIVE ATTITUDE Life is an obstacle course and we become our biggest obstacle by having a negative attitude. People with negative attitudes have a hard time keeping friendships,marriages and relationships. Negative attitudes lead to:-

• Bitterness                    • Resentment

• Discontentment          • Frustration

• A purposeless life       • Ill health

• High stress for self and others

Negative attitudes create an unpleasant environment at home, at work and in society. They pass on their negativity to others around them. People with negative negativity to others around them. People with negative attitudes become joa liability to society.

Do attitudes go from one generation to the next?

Absolutely. No wonder we find some families and societies more positive than others. societies more positive than others.

 WHEN WE BECOME AWARE OF OUR NEGATIVE ATTITUDE, WHY DON’T WE CHANGE?

Human nature generally resists change. Change is uncomfortable. Regardless of whether it is positive or negative, change can often be stressful. Sometimes we get so comfortable with our negativity that even when the change is for the better, we don’t want to accept it. We prefer to stay with the comfort of the negative. Charles Dickens wrote about a prisoner who was locked up for many years in a dungeon. After serving his sentence, he got his freedom. He was brought out from his cell into the bright daylight of the open world. This man looked all around and after a few moments was so uncomfortable with his newly acquired freedom that he asked to be taken back to the confines of his cell.

 To him, the dungeon, the chains and the darkness were more familiar, secure and comfortable than accepting the change of freedom and an open world.To him, the dungeon, the chains and the darkness were more familiar, secure and comfortable than accepting the change of freedom and an open world. Many modern-day prisoners do the same thing. The stresses of having to cope in an unfamiliar world are so great that they may purposely commit another crime in order to be sent back to prison, where, though their freedom is restricted, they have fewer decisions to make.If your attitude is negative, your life is restricted. Your success at work will be limited. You will have fewer friends. You will not enjoy life to its fullest.
                      

                  ((  Next topic.. I’ll share with you story of APJ Abdul Kalam, Albert Einstein Montane man on how you can build a positive attitude. ))