POSITIVE ATTITUDE

Most people fail not because of lack ability & intelligence but because & lack of desire, direction, dedication & discipline. Great organizations are not measured with good wages & salaries but with feelings, attitude & relationships. If we want to create positive environment in our organizations then we have to develop Total Quality People. TQP: - Total Quality People are the people with character, integrity, good values & positive attitude By attitude we mean the beliefs, feelings and action tendencies of an individual or group of individuals towards objects, ideas and people. They reflect how one feel about something. Thus attitude refers to: 1. feelings and beliefs of individuals and group of individuals, 2. the feelings and beliefs are directed towards other people, objects or ideas, 3. they tend to result in behavior or action, 4. they may fall in between very favourable and very unfavourable, 5. all people, irrespective of their status or intelligence hold attitudes. If someone is saying that I CANT DO IT, then there are two possible reasons 1 Does not know, How to do it. It is Technical Training isuue. 2. Dont want to do then there is a Attitude problem Formation of Attitude The point to be stressed here is that attitudes are acquired but not inherited. Factors that determine on attitude: There Es of attitude
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Environment Experience Education Environment : - Home environment

School environment Work environment Social environment Political environment All these environment creates a culture. In Organizations where the management & environment

is honest, employees are generally honest, law abiding & helpful. In a positive environment a marginal performs performance goes up. But in negative environment good platforms performance goes down. It is tough to expect positive behaviour in a negative environment.
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Experience: - Experiences & events become reference points in our lives. We draw conclusions which serve guidelines for future. Education: - Education is ought to teach us not only how to make a living but also how to live.

Types In organizational context there are three types of attitudes: 1 Job Satisfaction: It refers to ones feeling towards his/her job. Employee, having satisfaction from his job said to be holding positive attitude. On the other hand a dis-satisfied employee will hold a negative attitude towards his job. 2 Job involvement: It refers to the degree with which an employee identifies psychologically with his/her job. High degree of job involvement will reflect positive attitude of the employee. 3 Organizational commitment: It refers to the identification of an employee with the organization and feeling proud of being part of it. Committed employees reflects positive attitude towards their jobs. Consequences of Negative attitude: -Bitterness -Resentment -A purposeless life -Ill health -High stress level for themselves & other Negative attitude creates an unpleasant environment of home, at work & become labiality to society. They pass on their negative behavior to others around them & to future generations. If your attitude is negative, your life is restricted; your success at work will be limited. You will have few friends your enjoyment of life will be less. Many times we develop negative thinking patterns because we become frustrated by our own challenges and frequent adverse situations. Practicing positive thinking allows us to focus on our strengths and accomplishments and increases our happiness and motivation. This in turn allows us to spend more time making progress and less time feeling down and stuck.

How you build a positive attitude? - Become aware of the principles that build a positive attitude. - Desire to be positive. - Cultivate the discipline & dedication to practice those principles. STEPS 1 Choices to create happiness for Positive Attitude "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." Helen Keller All of us meet people who just seem to be happy. Perhaps we assume that those people are naturally happy, or that they are the lucky people or that they are loving parents. But they are happy because they make specific choices regarding their thinking and behaviour which create happiness that further leads to their positive attitude. Their choices: a) Optimism: Optimistic people always see the glass as half full rather than half empty. They always charge their adult self (very mature part of the personality) and open their mind towards the wonderful opportunities the life has offered. They remain happy and enjoy every movement of their life. Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel that you appreciate their good qualities and strengths. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best.Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

b) Kindness: People who arekind towards others and themselves oftenly feel happy. They relies that happiness is the result of kindness. Mother Terrisa used to say that, you always show kindness towards yourself that will teach you to remain kind towards others; it will give you immense enjoyment and focus your mind towards your goals. c) Forgiveness: People who dont harbor resentment towards others remain happy and focus their energy towards positive things. d) Acceptance of reality: Accepting the reality prevents frequent mood swings and creates happiness. Happy people realize what they can control and what they can not. They accept the

thing they can not change and change the things they can and remains focused and positive. e) Gratitude: We are so focused on complaining about things we dont have that we lose sight of the things we have. People who show gratitude what they have rather than complaining about what they dont have often feel happy. We see even the disabled persons being happy (e.g. Ramanand Sagar- Blindman-Great Indian Musician, Helen Keller-Blind, dum and deff- great American poetess). They always showed gratitude to god what they have and remained focused towards their work. 2) Change focus look for the positive: - You need to become a seeker of good. Start looking for what is positive in a person or situation instead of looking for what is wrong. Some people will always look for the negative, negative people will always criticize.

3) Make a habit of doing it know: The habit of procrastination fatigues you more than the effort it takes to do it. A completes task is fulfilling and energizing. An incomplete task drains energy. 4)Live in the present Lets make the best of now and utilize the present to the fullest. The message is not that we dont need to plan for the future. If we utilize our present to its fullest, we are sousing the seeds for better future. 5) Get into continuous education programme: Intellectual education influences the head and value based education influences our heart. If we want to build character in our homes, offices and society we must achieve minimum level of moral & ethical literacy. A person with morally educated will be a lot better equipped to move up in life than a morally bankrupt person with excellent academic qualification. A person can & will be successful with or without formal education if they have the 5 Cs, Character Commitment Conviction Courtesy Courage

Schools are fountains of knowledge. Some students come to drink, some to sip & others just to gargle. Sharper your axe. 6) Build a positive self-esteem Self esteem is the way we feel about ourselves when we feel good within, our performance goes up, our relationship improves both at home and at a work place. If you want to build a positive self esteem, do something for others who cannot repay you in cash or kind. . 7) Stay away from negative influences: If you want to soar like an eagle, you have to learn the ways of an eagle, if you associates with achiever, you will become one. If you associate with givers, you will become one. If you associate with thinkers, you will become one. If you associate with negative people, you surely become one, Remember a persons character is not judged by the company he keeps but also by the company he avoids. Learn to like the things that need to be done: Start by doing what is necessary then what is possible, and suddenly you will do the impossible. 9) Start your day with some positive: Start your morning with good things. Read or listen good things in the morning. "There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there." IndiraGandhi

10) Always remain on Right Track We all experiences moments in our life when we have taken wrong decisions. Consciously we should analyze ourselves and make efforts to be on right track to be positive. a) Be honest with yourself: Admit, as quickly as possible, that you have made a choice that led you on the wrong path. You can not plant apple seeds and expect oranges. You only, not any other, is responsible for the fruits of your deeds.

b) Plan an exit strategy: Analyze the causes which lead you on the wrong path and plan consciously to come back on the track. c) Be gentle with yourself: Beating yourself up will only damage your self esteem. Remember, life is ten percent how we make it and ninety percent how we take it. d) Learn from the mistakes: People who do work shall make Mistakes. They are the greatest source and provide opportunities of finding better ways to do. Repeating mistakes shall lead to repenting and mood swings. So always try to improve to be focused and positive. e) Do better next time: Life is full of second chances, be willing to take them. So always try to be on right track to enrich your life and to be positive. 11) Increase Mind Power for positive attitude:To be positive try to increase your mind power. a) The power of Belief: Whether you believe you can or you can not, you are right.- Henry Ford. When you believe that you can succeed you will. On the other hand, if you believe you can not succeed, then you can not. Have a rock like confidence in yourself. b) The power of commitment and persistence: It is very much like planting a tree. We start with seed, we must water it, give it nutrients it needs, put out all the weeds around it, and then it will grow in a healthy tree. c) The power of knowledge: Knowledge always increases our confidence and self esteem. 12) Character and Integrity The world is filled with people who make money with unlawful means. If we measure success simply by how much money we make, then we must relize that people who accumulate riches in a dishonest manner lack something that is true mark of success- Character and integrity. No amount of wealth can compensate lack of character. Character equals integrity and integrity means you always do what is right. Albert Einsten said, Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. Character is what you are and success is what you achieve 13) Eliminate Failure barriers to remain positive

The word FAILURE is not everybodys favorite word. Everybody wants to avoid it at any cause. Everyone experiences failure in life. Whether failure in the exams, failure in the selections etc.It is very painful. Some people do not able to overcome their failure and those who know how to overcome become successful. They always analyze their weaknesses and eliminate their failure habits. a) Dont be Blame caster: This type of person will always find something or someone to blame, never himself. People become frustrated with him and avoid him. Learn to fix the wrong, do not seek faults. b) Dont be cynic: Person with this habit does not trust anyone. He simply believes everyone dose something manipulative. He believes nothing and trusts no one. c) Dont be Jealous: Such type of people can not focus on what they are doing because they are focusing what others seem to be doing. Jealous is wasted emotion that requires you to bring others down to satisfy your own ego. Stop it. Let the success of others inspire you to be successful. d) Dont be Liar/Cheater: It is easier to lie and cheat than to be honest. Your ne lie leads to be liar in many cases. When the truth surfaces, no body will trust you or faith on you. It shall bring down your self-esteem. Such type of personality criticizes everyone except himself. To be positive dont lie or cheat but make others happy. e) Dont be Quiter : Dont give up after one or two obstacles. To be positive be real and expect the unexpected and act accordingly. 14) Eliminate Fear to be focused There are lots of things or situations that can stop someone from what the can be or what they can do. Many times it is a matter of great fear to achieve objectives. When we take long and less risky way, then there is certain amount of self esteem loss and confidence. So to remain positive eliminate fear from your mind. a) Know what you want from the action: Set your goal up on the action you decide to do. Focus on the goal and act accordingly. b) Understand the nature of fear: Fear will come if we are not certain what will happen. Successful people are not the ones who do not have the fear, but the ones who know how to deal with the fear. c) Change the focus: Do not focus on the fear but focus on what you want. d) Have a positive visualization: Regular visualization always attract positive situations and attribute in the life according to law of attraction.