What Kind Of Person Are You?

      As I have been working on my book over the past year I come across wonderful information that I need to share with others.  My studying of attitude and its applications toward success has always been a passion of mine.  This time I feel though as if I am learning more than I am teaching.  I am more than excited to see a work that I have labored so diligently on almost be finished.  It will be exciting to finally hold the completed product in my hands.  With that being said I challenge you to look inside yourselves and determine what type of person you are.  There is a poem I came across by a woman named Ella Wheeler Wilcox.  It is titled, "Which are you?" :

      There are just two kinds of people on earth today,
      Just two kinds of people, no more, I say.

      Not the sinner and saint, for it's well understood,
      That the good are half-bad and the bad half-good.

      Not the rich and the poor, for to rate a man's wealth,
      You must first know the state of his conscience and health.

      Not the humble and proud, for in life's little span,
      Who puts on vain airs, is not counted a man.

      Not the happy and sad, for the swift flying years
      Bring each man his laughter and each man his tears.

      No; the two kinds of people on earth I mean,
      Are the people who lift, and the people who lean.
      Where ever you go, you will find the earth's masses,
      Are always divided in just these two classes.

      And oddly enough, you find find too, I ween,
      There's only one lifter for every twenty who lean.

      In which class are you? Are you easing the load,
      Of overtaxed lifters, who toil down the road?
      Or are you a leaner, who lets others share
      Your portion of labor, and worry and care?

This wonderful work was written in 1896.  It is heartfelt and you can tell the emotion in which the author felt towards the subject of which she was writing.  So with my hand I too create a work.  I am excited to say that my book will be finished very soon for the public to enjoy.  I only hope that it inspires as many people as I wish it would.  Thank you all for taking the time to read my blog today.  It is my hope that you enjoy it and use today wisely, you will never have today back again.

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A Daily Change

      Everyday we wake up with the opportunity to inspire others or ignore them.  In today's society it is easy to stare at your smart phone and ignore a person in need.  It could be anythin,g, you don't know what people are going through, a smile could help someone more than you know.  That is what I am all about, my purpose in this life is to help others succeed at their life. 

      If you are just starting out on this journey of encouragement and inspiration, then you need to learn this one phrase that I learned when I first started, it was written by one of my favorite authors, John Maxwell.  The insight that this quote gave me was that I controlled my entire destiny, a truth that I knew but never applied until I heard this quote.

 

"You will never change your life until you change something you do daily."

 

      Think about that for a minute.  The key to the quote is the principle of discipline and consistency. You cannot change something in your life unless you master the discipline to develop the change you desire.  At the same time you cannot master the discipline until you learn to be consistent in the application of the discipline you are desiring to achieve.  I know it's a mouthful but read it over again, it makes sense, kind of a catch 22. 

 

      If you are stuck in the rut of life, miserable with a situation or circumstance, today is the day to change it, start doing something different to alter your existence for the better.  At our website we pride ourselves on the power of the right attitude, today is the first day of a new life you can begin to mold. With small incremental steps you can achieve great things with consistency and discipline over time.  It isn't easy to do and you will fail sometimes but the biggest thing to remember is that if you truly desire the change you have to develop a winner take all kind of attitude.  It doesn't matter if you fall but how long it takes you to get back up and keep going, the shorter the time frame the quicker you will reach the outcome you so desire. 

 

      I hope this has helped.  Just so you know I am  currently working on a MP3 download audio for daily developing daily discipline and consistency.  It will be perfect for listening to daily in the car on the way to work.  I should have it finished by Wednesday March 13.   I will also have a CD available for purchase if you would rather have that. 

 

     Looking forward to helping you achieve your dreams.   www.attitudedriveslife.com

 

     

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The Road Less Traveled....

                                                                                             



"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."

-John D. Rockefeller

     To those of you who know me, you could say that my entire life I have always been a little different.  What kind of person finds money in a store and gives it to the cashier in case the person who lost it came back looking for it, crazy right.  Well, I did that before.  How about someone who walks out of Walmart with something that the clerk didn't scan only to take it back in and pay for it, when I realized she never charged me for it, I did that 3 days ago.  So you can call me stupid for not taking advantage of the situation or you can call me a hero for actually doing to right thing.  One thing is for sure,  I am a bushwacker,  I don't follow the paths of those who have gone before me.  I make my own path.

 

 

       In my family we have a saying,  " Dare To Do Right".  It sounds simple but it is a lot harder to accomplish than presumed.  Don't get me wrong I am not perfect, just every once in a while  I actually do something that makes me proud, I screw up a lot too.  I am a human being.  I fail a lot but I fail forward.  It is easy to get stuck in the ruts of life, and want to follow the mundane paths of millions of other people, but that's when I find myself the most miserable, the most depressed and agitated.  I know that I am the happiest and most amiable when I am striking out on my own.  Doing my thing.

 

 

      So I guess this post is to the dreamers out there,  don't fall into the routines that are causing you to be unhappy, just because you think that it's the right thing to do.  It isn't you were made to make your own path,  so strike out and do something that is going to fulfill your deepest desires.  Don't let others dictate what you can or cannot accomplish.  I will leave you with this last bit of advice.

 

 

What are you doing today to make your tomorrow better?


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Your Destiny

          

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."
                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                  - Wayne Dyer


Write your own life, stop wasting your time on useless gimmicks that are slowly taking over.  I am not saying don't have some fun but we need to guard our time the way most people guard their money.  If someone was burning their money because they were bored we would think they were crazy.  Everyday I would bet almost everyone wastes some of their precious time.  As people we believe we have plenty, but we do not.  No one knows how much time we have left.

We our the masters of our own fate, but the last thing I want to do is look back on my life and wish I would have done it differently.  At that point it 's too late.  I want to control my life now, make the decisions that will bring lasting change into my life.  I believe there are 3 things we must do to take control of our destiny. 

      1.  Wake Up!
We obviously need to realize that a change must be made, things will not change themselves.  It is proven in a law of physics, an object at rest will remain at rest.  We must realize that we want to change things in our lives.  Otherwise we will be in the same place as last year.

      2. Take Action. 
After you realize that you hate your life (just kidding), you will want to change certain things in it to alter the outcomes that you have been receiving.  So you realized that you want something different, you must now be that difference. Don't want to be poor, study on how you can make money a different way then you did before.  Don't want to be fat, get up an extra 20 minutes early and jump rope before you take a shower, and do it everyday( don't eat so bad either). The choices are yours to make.  There is just one multiplier in the formula.

      3. Consistency
We can make decisions and never act on them but that usually just depresses us more.  When you truly want to make a change you will actually get angry at yourself for not acting on your new direction in life, you will force yourself to alter your direction everyday, or live in disgust that you didn't.  This I have learned first hand, I hate the fact that I didn't stay consistent, in turn I would get even more depressed.  We have to remain consistent over time to let momentum kick in, once momentum starts it is super easy to continue to improve ourselves.  The key is to think long term and not to be discouraged when we don't see immediate results, results compound over time.

So stick with it, follow the blog and lets make this year the best ever, at least until next year.

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Is today the day you start, or is it tomorrow?

    

You say you want something different in your life, yet everything you do is the same.  You say you want a better job, but you never strive to achieve it.  You say you want to have a more enjoyable life, yet you listen to those around you who are miserable.

      Don't get me wrong we all are on that roller coaster called life.  One day your on top of the world the next you feel like you don't deserve anything.  Deep inside everyone of us is a desire to achieve more, whether that be more respect, more knowledge, more wisdom, more wealth, more happiness, the list is pretty much endless.  Sure, you don't hear many people talking about how they want 'more' in their lives, probably because people just don't want to come off as greedy or selfish.  But the truth is  people just want their needs met, that is what mostof the people want, including me, probably you.

     You can go through this life reacting to the situations you find yourself in or you can make decisions and take actions that control most of the situations that you face. Instead of looking to government or corporate leaders for direction, take your own stance and start your own beginning.

     Here is a little secret.  Do it today.  If you want next week, next month and next year to be drastically different you have to start changing your course today, even if it is a small thing, do it.  You stay with it, adding other things you want to positively change in your life to the list of the things you have already done and you will find yourself transforming over time.

     One of the most helpful hints I can give is to read 15 - 20 minutes of a self improvement blog or book everyday, also listen to 20 -30 minutes of audio from a motivational speaker or business leader instead of listening to music.  It will alter the way you think.  They are simple incremental changes that snowball into a tidal wave of positive alteration of your life. Trust me. I am proof.

      You life can be drastically transformed but only if you want it to be, then, with the right tools, it will be.  Then you can help others do the same.


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Is your life determined by luck?

      Do you think that you are unlucky? Ever wonder why certain things happen to you or your family?   I always thought luck was something that you could will on yourself.  That you are one hundred percent responsible for your destiny.  I never believed in the notion that bad luck just happens to people or things go wrong on purpose.  I do think that bad luck comes to those who don't do three basic things.
       One, the unlucky seem to never be prepared.  Those people who are always ten minutes late for work and always blame it on some situation rather than taking the personal responsibility.  There seems to always be an excuse for every time they are unprepared and forget something.  Have you ever heard someone like this say, " It's not my fault, my ....."   You can pretty much finish the sentence anyway you want.  If you want to over come this in your life, or help someone you know break this brutal habit, offer this advice.
                         1.  Take personal responsibility, and act on it.  Instead of an excuse say, " I am truly sorry for being unprepared, making myself late, and I take full responsibility for my actions.  I have no excuse, please forgive me for being late". - or whatever the thing was that was forgotten.  This almost forces you to be genuine and it plays on your conscience to actually act on it.  Then you must take steps to alter the behavior into more profitable outcomes.  If you can do this first step then you are on your way to making luck work for you.
      Second,  which kind of feeds off of the first one. When did your life's course become determined by your surroundings and not your actions.  This is my absolute largest pet peeve.  When I over hear someone blaming anything but themselves for there situation, I cringe.  I hear others say," it's the governments fault for the way I live", or "my college promised me a job when I got out of school", or "it's my bosses fault as to why I don't make enough" .  Crazy right, I have actually heard these things when I used to work collections.  There is no personal responsibility, but even worse there is no drive to alter the course.
                        2.  Alter your situation. This is the 'act on it' part of the first point.  If you realize you are pointing fingers at everyone but yourself and you do nothing about it you will be worse off than before.  Your conscience will eat you alive, ever wonder why selfish people are so miserable? They know they are selfish, so they get extremely bitter.  After you realize you are guilty of not taking responsibility, you must act on it.  So make a plan, and implement it until you can successfully destroy the finger pointing and the blame game.
      Finally,  When persuading luck to be on your side.  It always helps to have an excellent attitude.   I find it extremely hilarious when you get a dose of 'bad' luck you usually have a dose of 'crappy ' attitude.  Now I know that bad things happen sometimes and it isn't easy to think that things happen because of a certain choice or a specific thing that you did or did not do.  It is better we try to avoid that kind of thinking. 
                     3.  Fill your attitude with awesomeness.  This is generally your overall mindset.  It is alot harder to stay consistent with this aspect than others.  It is also the most rewarding.  Some people think that being negative and judgemental all the time is why they are meant to be in this world.  They wear it as a badge of honor, it is very sad.  They bring other people down and criticize everything they do but never try anything new themselves.  These folks do not have a problem with you, but with themselves.  This is what happens when you become so bitter and prideful you never want to change.  We must avoid this.  Which is why concentrating on having an excellent attitude all the time is so important.  It can turn good moments in great ones, it can turn bad moments into lessons to learn from, and it can turn utter catastrophes into moments of reflection. 

Basically,  if you can take the positive out of every situation, and are grateful for the situations you have then luck can actually turn out to be something you wield as a sword.  Almost at your command, so don't wait on taking the action to remedy your current life's condition.  Make the world a better place because you can.

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