Here’s this weeks motivational message from my friend Arnfried at Be Motivated Today.
Be sure to read my comments after the post and feel free to add your own.
John Maxwell likens attitude to the orientation of an aircraft in flight. Just as the aircraft’s orientation in flight (in relation to the horizon) determines the aircraft’s altitude, so our attitude in the flight of life determines our altitude or outcome. For an aircraft to successfully remain in flight it needs to maintain the right orientation – attitude. It needs to maintain the right approach towards the wind of resistance. If the pilot lifts the nose of the aircraft, the wind of resistance will lift the aircraft. But if the pilot lowers the nose of the aircraft, the wind of resistance will force the aircraft down.
In the same way, our attitude in the flight of life determines our outcome. If we, the pilots of our own aircraft, choose to maintain a winning attitude towards life – a nose high attitude, we will make the best out of every situation. But if we have a loser attitude, we will be destructive and destroy opportunities and, thus, lose out.
Every day we face ‘winds of resistance’. People, challenges, frustrations and setbacks. These winds can cause us to go down and get depressed or rise and achieve anyway. It is all up to us and our attitude.
Fly with a nose-high Attitude!
Affirmations:
I have a great attitude
I face challenges with optimism
I rise above my obstacles
Be all you can be.
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By Rachel June 25, 2012 - 10:53 am
Having the right attitude is so key. I can remember a time when I gave up on trying to invest because my husband wasn’t comfortable with my plans – my attitude was one of defeat. Eventually I decided that I would continue to learn, explore my options and plan for my investing future with a winners attitude that I would be able to show my husband why we should do this.
I strongly believe that by portraying this attitude helped (perhaps even just subconsciously) him come around to my way of thinking.
By Joanne June 25, 2012 - 9:33 am
I just returned from USA Weightlifting’s National School Age Championships where I helped coach 3 young boys from our weightlifting team who had qualified for this competition. All our kids did very well, all made a few personal records and placed. Two of our boys made all of their lifts and placed second in their class, and the other made 5 out of 6 lifts and placed third in his class. They compete based on age and weight class.
There was some very good lifting by these youngsters at this competition. Some of the kids had better technique than others. This was the first competition where we gave a technique award. So in each category the lifter who was judged to have the best technique would get a special award along with the usual 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners. You would think that the athlete that got this award would be the winner or at least one of the athletes that placed in the top 3, but this was not always the case. Some of the 1st place winners did not have perfect or even near perfect technique. What they did have was strength, determination, and attitude.
I was watching these kids as they approached the bar to attempt their lifts. Many of them made their first 2 lifts in the snatch or the clean & jerk very successfully. But when it came to that final lift, which was something they had probably never attempted before, I could almost tell who would be successful and who would miss it. It showed up in their attitude. Sometimes you could see the uncertainty in their face, or they would approach the bar differently than they did with the first 2 successful attempts. Invariably they would miss. But when they approached the bar the same as they had for their previous attempts and you could see the determination on their face, they usually were successful.
Now I hope that I can use this observation to my advantage as a coach and as an athlete, and perhaps it carries over into other things as well, such as investing, business, and life in general.