Attitude: Setting Your Life Compass Part 8

January 21, 2010

Today, the Honda Motor Co. employs thousands of workers in factories across the globe — all because one man refused to allow failures and unfortunate circumstances to stop his dream.
We all have failures in our past. Even remote slip-ups from childhood can reach into our adult lives and stop us from maintaining a “true North” [...]

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Attitude: Setting Your Life Compass Part 7

January 19, 2010

. A Failed Past Does Not Define Us
He should have been a failure.
Soichiro Honda pursued a dream he carried throughout his childhood, to leave his native village of Komyo, Japan and work with automobile engines. As a student, Honda had failed — his impatience for classroom work erupted once when he told a frustrated [...]

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Attitude: Setting Your Life Compass Part 6

January 14, 2010

Francesca Reigler said: “Happiness is an attitude.  We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong.  The amount of work is the same.”
Each individual has to determine what will make one happy. And the only way to get to that point is to examine who we have been, who we are now and who we [...]

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Attitude: Setting Your Life Compass Part 5

January 12, 2010

 
As Frankl found out, there are basically two types: Those who choose to see life through mud-colored glasses and those who see life clearly in 20/20 vision. There is, of course, the third type who see life as 24/7, rosy happiness and fail to acknowledge things the way they are. But that’s simply the same [...]

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Attitude: Setting Your Life Compass Part 4

January 12, 2010

. Trying on a New Attitude
Of course, changing an attitude is not as simple as changing a wardrobe or deciding to take a different motor route. Our life attitude is often a matter of default behavior. Consider a new personal computer. After you take it out of the box and set it up, the PC [...]

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Attitude: Setting Your Life Compass Part 3

January 8, 2010

B. So, How Do You View Life?
Never had the soil of bitterness and anger been so fertile then on the grounds of Nazi concentration camps in World War II. Men, women and children who were deemed undesirable by Hitler’s maniacal regime were shipped far from their homes on railway boxcars like human livestock to compounds [...]

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Attitude: Setting Your Life Compass Part 2

January 7, 2010

The problem with many self-help programs is they are based on the assumption that attitude is totally dependent on will or some kind of iron discipline. Of course, it is true that we are responsible for our thoughts and we must choose to respond to life — more on that later.
For those who truly want [...]

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Attitude: Setting Your Life Compass

January 6, 2010

A. You Are What You Think
Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary lists seven different definitions for the word “attitude.” For our purposes, let’s look at two.
1. A mental position with regard to a fact or state
2. A [biological] state of readiness to respond in a characteristic way to a stimulus.
Notice that one definition deals with the psychological and [...]

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