HOW DO YOU RECOGNIZE PEOPLE WITH A POSITIVE ATTITUDE?

Just as the absence of ill health does not equal good health, in t to same way the absence of negativity does not make person positive. People with positive attitudes have certain personality traits that re easy to recognize. They are caring, confident, patient, and humble. They have high expectations of themselves and others. They anticipate positive outcomes.

A person with a positive attitude is like a fruit of all seasons. He is always welcome.

THE BENEFITS OF A POSITIVE ATTITUDE:

There are many advantages to having a positive attitude. The advantages are easy to see. But what is easy to see is also easy to miss!

A positive attitude:

Benefits for you:

• Makes for a pleasing personality

• Is energizing

• Increases your enjoyment of life

• Inspires others around you

• Helps-you become a contributing member of society and an asset to your country.

And for the organization:

• Increases productivity

• Fosters teamwork

• Solves problems

• Improves quality

• Make for a congenial atmosphere

• Breed loyalty

• Increases profits

• Fosters better relationships with employers, employees and customers

• Reduces stress

THE CONSEQUENCES OF A NEGATIVE ATTITUDE:

Life is an obstacle course and we become our biggest obstacle by having a negative attitude. People with negative attitudes have a hard time keeping friendships, jobs, marriages, and relationships. Negative attitudes lead to:

• Bitterness

• Resentment

• A purposeless life

• Ill health

• High stress levels for themselves and others.

Negative attitudes create an unpleasant environment at home, at work and become a liability to society. They pass on their negative behavior to others around theta and to the future generations.

WHEN WE BECOME AWARE OF OUR NEGATIVE ATTITUDE, WHY DON'T WE CHANGE?

Human nature generally resists change. Change is uncomfortable. Regardless of its positive or negative effect, change can often be stressful. Sometimes we get so comfortable with our negativity that even when the change is for the better, we don't want to accept it. We stay with the negative.

Charles Dickens wrote about a prisoner who was locked up for many years in a dungeon. After serving his sentence, he got his freedom. He was brought out from his cell into the bright daylight of the open world. This man looked all around and after a few moments was so uncomfortable with his newly acquired freedom that he asked to be taken back to the confines of his cell. To him, the dungeon, the chains and the darkness were more familiar, secure and comfortable than accepting the change of freedom and an open world.

Many modern-day prisoners do the same thing. The stresses of having to cope in an unfamiliar world are so great that they may purposefully commit another crime in order to be sent back to prison; where, though their freedom is restricted, they have fewer decisions to make.

If your attitude is negative, your life is restricted. Your success at work will be limited. You will have fewer friends. Your enjoyment of life will be less.