Got attitude? A positive one?

I will bet every one thinks that they have a positive attitude, and unfortunately the same amount of folks have never taken a course in it.

Eighty to 100 percent of one's success is dependent on their positive attitude, yet most have had no formal training. You can start by reading and studying these four books:

1. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

2. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

3. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Norman Vincent Peale

4. The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale

If you want wealth, first build a wealth of knowledge. I also recommend that you enroll in the nearest Dale Carnegie program. Carnegie courses are timeless and will provide a great attitude foundation.

Here are 21 other attitude gems that I have picked up along the way that I recommend you read, cut out, copy, share with others, post on you wall and study:

1. Change your input to change your attitude. If you seek a positive mind, you must expose yourself to positive information and hang around positive people.

2. You were born to win, but you must plan and prepare to win. Then you can expect to win (a famous Zig Ziglar quote).

3. The will to win is nothing without the will to prepare to win. (Vince Lombardi, famous coach.)

4. You will get whatever you want if you help enough people get whatever they want.

5. Make every day as productive as the day before you go on vacation - a day EVERYTHING gets done.

6. Ignore people who tell you you can't (except your boss). People will try to rain on your parade because they have no parade of their own.

7. If you have nothing nice to say about someone, say nothing.

8. Do not dwell on (or whine about) the problem, concentrate on the solution. Resolve how you can, not lament why you cannot.

9. Forgive and go forward. Grudge blocks positive. Until you clear the past, you are destined to repeat it.

10. Self-talk equals self-performance.

11. What is the picture you have of yourself? That is what you will become. Spend 15 minutes a day focusing on a positive picture.

12. You will hear the word 'NO' 116,000 times in your lifetime. Try converting just 1,000 of them to a "YES," and the world is your oyster.

13. What you do off the job determines what you are likely to do on the job. (Uh oh!)

14. Strengthen your weaknesses and strengthen your strengths at the same time. Combine positive with negative for better personal development results.

15. Failure is an event, not a person.

16. It is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you. Attitude manifests itself in your response to events.

17. Every obstacle presents an opportunity, if you are looking for it. "Revel" and "lament" are choices.

18. Hard work makes luck. Nothing affects positive circumstance and results more than hard work.

19. How many of your problems are cured with 10 grand? If money makes your problems go away, attitude makes them go away as well.

20. It is not what you say - it is how you say it. The tone of your verbiage determines the atmosphere of your environment.

21. Resign your position as general manager of the universe. Do not try to solve other people's problems, until you are problem-free.

Years ago I was riding down the road listening to a tape by Earl Nightingale (one of the founding fathers of personal development). On tape 4 of his legendary series "Direct Line" the topic was enthusiasm. "Enthusiasm," he said, "comes from the Greek 'entheos' meaning the God within." All of a sudden all the other quotes and advice made sense. The strength of self-belief is within your own spirit, it you hunger for the feeling.

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