Getting Prepared to Succeed...!

As calls keep coming from grateful and lovely students about their getting placed in reputed MNCs, Organisations and Institutions of Repute, we as their teachers feel proud in their happiness, and I thought of just sharing a few words of encouragement for their workplace: Please take just three minutes off your time to read this out:

Attitude is defined by Webster's Dictionary as:

1. A bodily posture showing mood, action, etc.
2. A manner showing one's feelings or thoughts.
3. One's disposition, opinion, etc.

When your boss singles you out to perform a certain work, how do you react? Are you willing? Are you enthused? Do you care who's watching? Do you care what your teammates think? Your answer to these questions determines your attitude.

Your attitude demostrates how you react to changes and challenges. Others will gain insight to your inner self by your outer behavior - your attitude, your demeanour, the way you carry yourself.

A positive attitude will help you climb high and achieve seemingly unreachable goals. Conversely, a negative attitude will ground you and keep you from ever recognizing your potential and the potential of others around you.

The great thing about attitude is you have the choice. It's up to you. You have to decide a positive attitude is what you carry. Once you have made the decision, you must work at it. Every day, every hour, every minute you must work at it until being positive becomes part of who you are.

Pellom McDaniels III outlines how negatives can be turned into positives:

Here's how:

When someone says something negative, respond positively regardless of what they say. It's hard to do because the first thing you want to do is make the person shut up and leave you alone. But in the real world, you cant always control your environment. By saying something negative, you lose that opportunity to focus on what you want out of life and what you have worked so hard to pursue.

Remember what your goals are. There will always be people who dont want you to succeed because of jealousy and envy. Dont lower yourself to their level if you want to be successful. Keep your attitude positive.

Believe in yourself no matter what anybody says. Dennis Smith and Michael Jordan were classmates. But you know all about Michael Jordan. But do you know who Dennis is? Of course not. he gave up after eighth grade in school when another kid said he was tooo fat to play football. Where is Dennis today? Who knows? He believed what the other kids said about him, not what he believed about himself.

A positive attitude will give you all the confidence you need to set out on your journey called "Success." A negative attitude will only sink your dreams before they have a chance to blossom. Repeat these lines out loud:

I can, I will, I must have a positive attitude. With a positive attitude, I can and will do great things." Now say it again and again unil you believe it. A positive attitude will help you do your best no matter what the circumstances. You will always find the silver lining in every situation.

Thanks to Pellom McDaniels III and his book, "So you want to be a PRO?" which changed my life for the better.