The words ?success? and ?positive attitude? should really be considered as synonyms. When it comes right down to it, these two ideas are really just the same thing. If you have success, for example, you will have a positive attitude and if you have a positive attitude, you will surely have success. There really is no difference.
Some people may argue that they have often held a positive mental attitude in the past but things didn't work out for them. They now feel that positive attitude isn't always enough to bring you to success in life. You need more than a positive attitude, they say. You need ?luck? and ?good fortune? as well as a good attitude. Although this may be true in the short term, this is not actually true over the long term.
Some people are born into worse conditions than others. This is just a fact. Still, you don't need more than a positive attitude to be successful no matter what situation you were born into. You just need more perseverance and strength to maintain your positive attitude over the long term. You may just need to hold on longer than the other people who were born into better circumstances. The things that determine success for other people born into a bad situation are only the same things as everyone else. The only difference is determination to remain positive and to overcome the negative things that have been placed in your way.
One of the greatest tools for overcoming a negative situation is to accept that everything happens for a reason. At first this may seem incredibly hard to do. Things oftentimes seem so unfair on the surface. Still, if you first accept that this problem has been placed in front of you for a reason, you will be able to face it with more strength and to eventually overcome it with great determination. Others, who may have been born into a better situation may be blessed for some reason that we cannot see upon first glance. It may seem unfair or unjust that they have been given more but, if we can remember that everything happens for a reason, we will be better equipped to turn to our own lives instead of pointing our fingers at others.
A positive mental attitude is something that is sometimes taken for granted by the people who already have it. They feel good about their lives most of the time and they rarely suffer from depression or anxiety like so many other people do. Successful people feel good and they sometimes take their positive mental attitude as a ?given?, often wondering why more people don't feel the same way as they do. Actually, what they fail to recognize is that they are extremely lucky to have a positive mental attitude and this attitude they possess is actually the real reason why their lives are so good most of the time. They are reaping the rewards of the good things they did before. If they decide they want more from their lives, they are in a good position to try for more and to even achieve greater and greater things and it is their positive mental attitude that will make these extra things possible.
Positive mental attitude makes it possible for people to add the frosting to their cake of success and to enjoy even greater things than just ?mere success?. We should be grateful that there are other people who can actually go on to spread their happiness to others and this is what the frosting of success is all about. For us, we must look at the place we are at and do everything we can to improve our attitude each and every day. This is the royal road to success at whatever cost it may come.
A positive mental attitude can indeed bring success to everyone but it requires strength and perseverance in many cases. Next time you think that attitude isn't enough, think again. You may not have all the answers just yet but more will certainly be revealed. You may just need to pick yourself up and try a little bit harder before you discover the success you were after.
One day he even puts a gun to your head and tells you:
"I love you but I will kill you."
Imagine a childhood surrounded by gangs and drugs.
Imagine being brought up in a society where it is commonplace to avenge a life by taking a life.
How do you think your life story would unfold?
Well three boys lived under these conditions. One has been in and out of prison. One is a well-respected school educator.
And the youngest, Johnny Wimbrey, is on his way to Hollywood.
Go figure. Nature or Nurture? Each child was brought up under identical conditions yet each life unfolded differently. I believe that while both our environment and our upbringing help to shape our character, ultimately it is our ATTITUDE that counts.
"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens." Lewis L. Dunnington
Normally, it is said that the word 'but' negates everything before it. Yet, somehow, when Johnny Wimbrey was told the words "I love you but I will kill you", it was the words "I love you" that he heard over and above everything else. Three powerful words indeed. These words gave him hope.
He believes that his brother who is currently in prison for the third time heard the words "I will kill you". He is now serving a 40-year sentence in State Penitentiary for aggravated robbery. It might as well be a life sentence.
Johnny's oldest brother chose, from an early age, to stay on the straight and narrow. Where did that child find the strength of character? What is certain is that with every decision he made to do the 'right thing' it became just that little bit easier.
He has been in the ministry since he was 18 years old and became principal of a public junior high school at age 30.
"Every moment of your life you're in a character-building process. You cannot stop the process of character-building but you can control what you allow to build your character. The very nature of who you are." Johnny Wimbrey
So what of Johnny? For a while his life could have swung in any direction and it did. At times he was literally selling drugs on the street on Saturday night and singing hymns in church on Sunday morning. But it came to a point where he realised that he had to make a choice. He decided to turn his back completely on a life that would've most likely landed him in jail or in the morgue. Judging how his life has been transformed over the ensuing years, one could say he made the right decision.
He has gone from being an ex-drug dealer to a success phenomenon. He is a best selling author, an international keynote/motivational speaker plus a success coach and trainer. Now he is about to host his own television show - The Johnny Show.
When he announced that he wanted to host his own television show many poured scorn on his ambitions. It couldn't be done he was told. And here's an important point - never let another person dream for you; they will dream too small. Johnny wasn't deterred. After everything he has been through in his life he knew that it wasn't a question of if he could do it but how he could do it.
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." W.W. Ziege
It is said that you don't have to know how you are going to achieve your goals. You have to clearly define what it is you want to achieve, believe that you can achieve it and take action. Your initial actions may seem insignificant but you have no idea what they will lead to.
What is all the more remarkable is that when Johnny announced his intention to host his own show he didn't have any Hollywood connections. However, he didn't let that put him off. Johnny will tell you that:
"It's not just about setting a goal. It's about seeing the possibility."
He could see the possibility.
Soon after, while travelling from one of his many speaking engagements he found himself seated next to someone who had just the right connections he needed to break onto the Hollywood scene. It was the first time this person was meeting Johnny yet he offered to help him achieve his dream.
"If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations." Shakti Gawain
Sigmund Freud said you become a product of your environment. I challenge that. You become what you think about.
"Where you come from has nothing to do with where you are going." Johnny Wimbrey
If someone with such a disadvantaged background can turn their life around and be a positive influence on thousands of people across the globe what level of success can you achieve in your own life with a positive mental attitude?
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