Constant Improvement

It's a rare person who doesn't get discouraged. Whether it happens to us or to an associate we're trying to cheer up, the answer centers around one word: perseverance.
The value of courage, persistence, and perseverance has rarely been illustrated more convincingly than in the life of this man (his age appears on the right):
Failed in business 22
Ran for legislature and lost 23
Again failed in business 24
Elected to legislature 25
Sweetheart died 26
Had a nervous breakdown 27
Defeated for Speaker 29
Defeated for Elector 31
Defeated for Congress 34
Elected to Congress 37
Defeated for Congress 39
Defeated for Senate 46
Defeated for Vice President 47
Defeated for Senate 49
Elected President 51
That's the record of
Abraham Lincoln

If you were to ask your family or co-workers to describe your attitude, what do you think they would say? Would they say you have a good positive attitude? Or would they say that your attitude reminds them of driving by a dead skunk with the windows down?

A healthy attitude is the most important single factor that insures good results, day in, and day out, all the months and years of our lives. Our attitude determines how we handle tense situations, how we relate to others, and our daily actions. Our attitude tells the world what we expect in return. If it's usually cheerful, it says that we expect cheerful people around us. If it's usually negative, then those are the people who will surround us.

How would you describe your own attitude? Most people never think about their attitudes at all. For most of them, it's a matter of beginning each day in neutral. Their attitudes are neither good or bad. All they do is react. If the encounter is good, the reaction is good. If the encounter is bad, the reaction will reflect it.

It's important for us to control our attitudes. It was William James of Harvard University, who said, "Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."

Great achievers always have a healthy positive attitude. They get things done. People like working with them and they believe that if they just keep trying, success will come. These people take the attitude that they can accomplish everything they set out to accomplish. They never quit.

Thomas Edison is an excellant example. It took him over 10,000 attempts before he could make his light experiment work. What would have happened if he had quit when he reached 9,000?

These people have a "never give up" attitude toward themselves and as a result, accomplish some remarkable things. Usually they are not smarter or more talented than most other people, but they have the right attitude.

Dr. Abraham Maslow, another psychologist, wrote, "one can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again, fear must be overcome again and again." Developing a good attitude doesn't happen overnight. It has to be developed like any other ability; through practice, practice, and more practice.

The first step in developing a good attitude is to ACT like you have a good attitude. Don't wait to feel like doing it, just do it. After a while the feeling will come with the action. When we first start a new exercise program, do w

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"You are to become a creator, not a competitor. You are going to get what you want, but in such a way that when you get it every other person whom you affect will have more than he has now."

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A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.
A person can form things in his thoughts, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created."

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My greatest inspiration is a challenge to attempt the impossible. -Albert Michelson

One can never consent to creep, when one feels the impulse to soar. -Helen Keller

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. -Oliver Wendell Holmes

When you are kicked from the rear it means you're in front. -Fulton Sheen

Some minds are like concrete- thoroughly mixed up and permanently set. -unknown

Reasonable men adopt themselves to the world; unreasonable men attempt to adopt the world to themselves. That is why all progress depends on unreasonable men. -George Bernard Shaw