THE ONE MINUTE ATTITUDE
by Rich "MR POS" Wilkins
Have you ever noticed how quickly someone’s attitude can change?
I’ll bet when I asked this question you were thinking negative
attitude instead of POSitive attitude. If you did, don’t worry
because we have been conditioned by the negative world we live in
to think negative instead of POSitive. Why? It’s very simple.
We have been conditioned to do this since childhood. If you are
an adult now, you have been bombarded by negative experiences as
a child which affects your attitude as an adult. Let me prove this
to you by asking you a very significant questions. By the time you
were five years old how many times did you hear the word "no?"
How many times did you hear the word "don’t?" Even
more significant, did you get a finger pointed at you like I did
as a child? You know that long finger that was pointed at you by
one of your parents anytime they were frustrated or angry. Recently
I was in a grocery store check out line and a young parent walked
up behind me with a three year old child. In three minutes that
little guy heard the word "no" three times, the word "don’t"
two times and got the finger once. I turned around and exclaimed
to this young parent, "Don’t you know what you are saying
to this precious little child of yours?" I learned quickly
never to do that again!
It is so easy in our negative world to trigger
someone else’s negative attitude. However it is also just as
easy to build a POSitive attitude in only one minute. Here’s
how you to do it. Get a pen and a piece of paper and be prepared
to write up your own personal success list in one minute. Time yourself
and write up as many successes as you can think of that you have
accomplished in your life that you value. You will be amazed at
just how many successes you really have in your life. If you have
never written up a success list for yourself I want to encourage
you to do it right now! Keep in mind that a series of small successes
always add up to be big successes. As my good friend Zig Ziglar
says, "A big shot is nothing but a little shot who just kept
on shooting." Keep shooting for success!
