Six Stages of Attitude Changes - by John Maxwell:

• Identify problem feelings.
• Identify problem behavior.
• Identify problem thinking.
• Identify right thinking.
• Make a public commitment to right thinking.
• Develop a plan for right thinking.

Facts:

• The 1983 Report on American Business said that 94 percent of all Fortune 500 executives attributed their success more to attitude than to any other basic ingredients.
• The Carnegie Institute analyzed the records of ten thousand persons and concluded that 15 percent of success is due to technical skills and the other 85 percent is due to personality, and the primary of personality trait is attitude.
• Based on survey, the single greatest reason for firing an employee in 100 of America's largest companies: 30% incompetence and 70% attitude problems.

Attitude Axioms

• Axiom #1: Our Attitude determines our approach to life.
• Axiom #2: Our Attitude determines our relationship with others.
• Axiom #3: Our Attitude determines our success or failure.
• Axiom #4: Our Attitude in the beginning of a task will determines the result more than anything.
• Axiom #5: Our Attitude can turn problems into oppotunities.
• Axiom #6: Our Attitude can give positive perspective to life.

There is Always A Good Side

Everything depends on the way you look at things. View every problem you encounter as an opportunity. There is always a good side to every situation. The optimist sees an opportunity in every misfortune. The pessimist sees misfortune in every opportunity. The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist sees the hole.

You can develop success from every failure. Discouragement and failure are two stepping stones to success. No other elements can do so much for you if you're willing to study them and make them work for you. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Always Think Positive

You cannot always control your circumstances. But, you can control your own thoughts. There is nothing either good or bad, only your thinking makes it so. Things turn out best for those people who can make the best out of the way things turn out. It's not the situation, it's your reaction to the situation.

The reality in your life may result from many outside factors, none of which you can control. Your attitude, however, reflects the ways in which you deal with what is happening to you.

Life at any time can become difficult. Life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how you adjust yourself to life. What you see in your mind is what you'll get out of life.

Self Image and Self Esteem

What You See is What You Get

If you believe that you can do something, you can do it. You must believe in it one hundred percent. Your mind always sets your limits. What you believe yourself to be, you are. What you believe you can be in the future, you can become.

Your self-image prescribes the limits for the accomplishment of your goals. It prescribes the "area of the possible" for you.

Self-esteem is the strongest single factor in prosperity consciousness. Believe you can do it. Believe you deserve it. Believe you will get it. If you want to be successful, start thinking of yourself as successful. The feelings must come first from within you. It's all in your mind.

Building a Strong Self Image

Self-image is the picture of ourselves that we have in our mind. As the picture that we create, self-image can be changed according to what we want.

6 sources of bad self image:

• Negative self-image.
• Too many critics from parents.
• Too many critics from yourself.
• Chronic Comparison.
• Pushed to be Perfect.
• Continuous Negative Input.

5 Concepts of building positive self image:

• We're created in unique and special way by god, according to His plan for us.
• We can do everything that we want to.
• We have an unlimited strength to choose our thoughts.
• Life is abundance.
• Life is joy and blissful.

4 steps to build self confidence:

• Make your own success list.
• Act optimistic.
• Change your attitude about failure.
• Don't (only) see failure in everything.

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