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You cannot disconnect Attitude from Reality and expect success!

Where Attitude Cannot Make The Difference

Your Attitude Cannot Substitute for Competence

• Confidence is a function of attitude. Competence is a function of ability. They are not the same but they are both needed.
• A great attitude can help you personally. It can make you content and more pleasant to be around. But it cannot help you positionaly. If you do not have competence in your favor, then you are going to be trouble.
• Even if your attitude is excellent and yet you lack competence – you become a major distraction to the Team’s effort of hitting their goals in a timely manner. Your incompetence becomes the distraction to everyone else around you.

Your Attitude Cannot Substitute for Experience

• The problem with experience is that you rarely have it until after you need it.
• Experience is often a hard teacher because the test is given firs and then the lessons come afterward.

Your Attitude Cannot Change The Facts

• A University of Texas study on aging found that people who had a more positive attitude remained more physically hardy than pessimistic people the same age.
• Poet Maya Angelou stated, “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.”

Your Attitude Cannot Substitute for Personal Growth

• Musician Bruce Springsteen says, “A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to be become and start being the man you want to be.”
• Nothing can substitute for continual learning. You need to feed your mind and soul to become the person you desire to be.

Your Attitude Will Not Stay Good Automatically

• In the book Today Matters, one of the concepts is that most people overrate decision making and underrate decision managing.
• It is easy to say that from now on I am going to have a great attitude. It is another thing to actually follow through.

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Music: “Gratitude Mood” by David Arivett. You can learn more about his music by clicking on his name. THANKS DAVID!