Attitude is everything. Johnny Wimbrey said “Your attitude determines your ability to succeed” Wow! that is powerful. Do you know what I interpret that to mean? We have the choice and the power to determine our destiny.

Our success or failure is a choice we make by design or default. Every decision we make daily is creating our future.

I think it was Earl Nightingale who said that all of us are self made, but only the successful is willing to admit it.

Whether we like it or not, our attitude will either make us or break us, make us rich and famous, or make us poor and needy, drive people away from us, or attract people to us…

ATTITUDE.

Attitude is a frame of mind that affects how we think, and how we think determines the words we speak, how we speak determines how we behave, how we behave determines the habits we form, the habits we form determines our character.

This whole matter of character is where its at. Character is an ever evolving process, right at this moment as you read these words, you are in a character building state. You cannot stop the process, however, you can control what is building your character.

I quote Mr Wimbrey again who said “Your character is developed according to what you consume or what consumes you.”

Our attitude, simply put is our mental position on the facts of life. The way we view life, our degree of likes and dislikes, our opinion, beliefs and feeling about the world in which we live.

If we are going to develop a positive mental attitude, we have to do the following:-

[] Believe in our God-given ability,
[] Set ourselves dreams and goals to stretch our minds,
[] Develop a tough mental attitude and never allow failures and challenges to make you quit,
[] Go back in our past, but only to bring someone out with us,
[] Get ourselves an accountability partner,
[] We should never think we have arrived, that is the moment you we start to regress.

Our attitude affects our belief.

Belief is rooted and grounded in faith, which is the ability to see or receive something invisible or intangible. That is more powerful than you are able to grasp in this short article, especially if it is a new concept to you.

One reason the majority of people live from one pay check to another, is because they lack the ability or willingness to see the invisible, hear the inaudible and touch the intangible.

If you are waiting to see it before you can believe it, then you are going to remain in your ordinary life of quiet desperation, wishing and hoping for things to change, but doing nothing about it.

If you fit that description, then according to Albert Einstein, you are bordering insanity, which is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

We are where we are today because of what we believe. Our belief will take us as far as we permit it. There is no limit to what we can accomplish in life. But we must believe it first, we must see it in the spiritual.

Everything exists in the invisible realm before it become a physical reality. But only those who can dream it, feel it and see it will have it. William Shakespeare said, what the human mind can conceive and believe, that same mind can achieve and receive.

If you are to achieve greatness and live life on your terms, then you must believe it to achieve it.

And it is easier than you think.

All you have to do is change your belief system. To do that you have to change your attitude.

If you are going to change your attitude, you have to change the way you think, and if you are going to change the way you think, you have to reprogramme your brain to think a certain way.

Our brain controls our success or failure, our happiness or sadness, our beliefs or doubts, in other words our brain controls our life.

There is a small section of the brain called the Reticular Activating System (RAS), which acts as a filter to determine what we accept in our conscious awareness, and the things we focus on will become more acute in our conscious awareness.

The truth of the matter is, we don’t see reality, we see what we believe reality to be.

Here is where we have the ability to will ourself to success in anything beyond our wildest dreams.

Believe it or not, you can programme yourself for success.

What you filled your mind with is eventually translated into words, and your words are put into action. In other words, your success begins in your brain where you have to see it and touch it before it is created and become your living reality.

If you think you can or you can’t, you are right both ways. How do you see yourself three months, six months, one year, five years or ten years from now?

As Steven Covey said, you must begin with end in mind. You must have a clear picture where you want to go and how you plan to get there.

Your success or failure is a direct result of the attitude of your belief.

Attitude is everything.

I close with a quote from Charles Swindoll: “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, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do.

It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill.

It will make or break a company… a church… a home.

The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for 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 we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our Attitudes.”