To see amazing improvements in your personal life and your work place, you need to learn how to develop a positive attitude. Having an optimistic attitude gives you the confidence to take risks, innovate, and communicate better. People with a positive attitude are usually more productive and they achieve more.

In the reverse, people with a negative attitude tend to blame each other and sense or feel that life is unjust. They are less likely to be accountable, reliable, or productive.

The ABC of Attitudes

What we know about attitudes is that they are judgments that you make that reflect your subjective likes and dislikes.

Attitudes can be either positive or negative, and often, you may see that you can simultaneously have a positive as well as a negative attitude towards a person, an event, a place, or an item.

Your attitudes are a result of the ABC model. Affect, Behavior, and Cognition are the three areas that can impact strongly on your attitude.

A. Affective is your emotional response which builds your attitudes based on your subjective likes and dislikes.

B. Behavior is your tendency to react and behave in a particular manner which also helps shape your attitudes. And finally,

C. Cognition is your intellectual response or evaluation towards a person, place, thing, or happening.

Changing Attitudes

As we can see above, attitudes are formed either due to experiences which you might have gone through in your life or they can be formed as a result of deliberate learning.

In other words, you can learn to change your attitude from a negative or an ambivalent one into a positive ‘can do’ attitude.

Since positive attitudes can be learnt, negative attitudes can also be unlearnt. This means it is possible for you, or anyone else, to negate a negative attitude or to ‘un-learn’ attitudes which prevent you from achieving success.

With the right knowledge and the right training, you to can further develop or redefine your attitudes.

For example, we are all aware that highly successful people possess certain attitudes like perseverance, optimism, curiosity and so on.

The good news is that these attitudes can be learnt and that you can learn them.

William James (US pragmatist, philosopher, and psychologist (1842 – 1910) gave us the clue that attitudes can be changed with his famous quote:

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.”

However, to change your attitudes to life and work, I recommend that you find a good coach to show you the path towards cultivating a positive attitude.

The Power of a Positive Attitude

It is common knowledge that people with a positive attitude are happier, healthier, and they live longer.

People with positive attitudes also have greater inner strength and energy to confront life’s challenges and solve them.

At home or work, their satisfaction levels are usually higher, they are more creative, they handle change better, and they make better leaders.

In addition, people with positive attitudes find greater respect amongst their peers and also have the ability to inspire others towards success.

So, join with me and choose to be inspirational – learn to have a positive attitude and lead yourself and other people towards greater enjoyment and happiness.

Be your best and be good at it…

Kym

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