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Have you ever pondered, “What separates the best from the rest?” It is attitude!

Denis Waitley stated in the book The Winner’s Edge, “The winner’s edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner’s edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success. But you can’t buy and attitude for a million dollars. Attitudes are not for sale.”

Let’s consider four things that attitude can do for us.

Your Attitude Makes A Difference in Your Approach To Life

• The happiest people in life don’t necessarily have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.
• A person’s attitude has a profound influence on his approach to life.
• One of things that I have learned in life is that life often gives you whatever you expect from it.

Your Attitude Makes A Difference In Your Relationships With People

• To be successful you need to get along with people.
• President Roosevelt stated, “The most important single ingredient in the formula for success is knowing how to get along with people.”
• Consider these three key ideas
  • Who we are determines how we see others
  • Hurting people hurt people
  • We can lift up or take down other people in our relational circle
• Each person that we meet has the potential to teach us something

Your Attitude Makes A Difference In How You Face Challenges

• Life is going to give us obstacles, challenges and problems. They are inevitable. How will you handle them? Will you give up? Consider the following successful people.
• Demosthenes, the greatest orator has a speech impediment
• Martin Luther translated the New Testament into German while incarcerated
• Pilgrims Progress was wrote in prison by John Bunyan

Your Attitude Is The Difference Maker

• Dr. Earnest Rosenbaum stated that we have known for over 2,000 years there is a correlation between the mind, body and health.
• Poet John Milton wrote, The mind is its own place, and it itself can make a heaven of hell and a hell of heaven.
• Your attitude has a profound influence on how you see the world

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