Attitude 101

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Attitude 101

• Dr. John C. Maxwell

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How Does Attitude Impact Leadership?

• Attitude is always a player on your team.

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Talent is Not Enough

• Attitudes have the power to lift up or tear down
  a team.
• An attitude compounds when exposed to others
• Bad attitudes compound faster than good ones
• Attitudes are subjective, so identifying a wrong
  one can be difficult.
• Rotten attitudes, left alone, ruin everything.

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Attitude is really about how a person is. That
overflows into how he acts.
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Common Rotten Attitudes

• An inability to admit wrongdoing.
• Failing to forgive.
• Petty jealousy.
• The disease of me.
• A critical spirit.
• A desire to hog all the credit.

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How Does Attitude Impact an Individual?

• Your attitude and your potential go hand in hand.

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Attitude Determines Success or Failure

• Our attitude determines our approach to life.
• Our attitude determines our relationships with
  people.
• Often our attitude is the only difference between
  success and failure.
• Our attitude at the beginning of a task will
  affect its outcome more than anything else.

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Attitude Determines Success or Failure

• 5. Our attitude can turn our problems into
  blessings.
• 6. Our attitude can give us an uncommonly
  positive perspective.
• 7. Your attitude is not automatically good
  because you are a religious person.

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When confronted with a difficult situation, a
person with an outstanding attitude makes the
best of it while he gets the worst of it.
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What Shapes a Persons Attitude?

• A lot goes into an attitude but a lot more
  comes out of it!

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Factors Impacting Attitude

• Personality Who I Am
• Environment Whats Around Me
• Word Expression What I Hear
• Acceptance/Affirmation What I Feel
• Self-Image How I See Myself

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Factors Impacting Attitude

• Exposure to New Experiences Opportunities for
  Growth
• Association with Peers Who Influences Me
• Physical Appearance How We Look to Others
• Marriage, Family Job Our Security and Status

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Can an Attitude Be Changed?

• The key to having a good attitude is the
  willingness to change.

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Choices for a Great Attitude

• Evaluate your present attitude.
• Realize that faith is stronger than fear.
• Write a statement of purpose.
• Have the desire to change.

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Choices for a Great Attitude

• Live one day at a time.
• Change your thought patterns.
• Develop good habits.
• Continually choose to have a right attitude.

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Can Obstacles Actually Enhance an Attitude?

• The greatest battle you wage against failure
  occurs on the inside, not the outside.

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The Benefits of Adversity

• Adversity creates resilience.
• Adversity develops maturity.
• Adversity pushes the envelope of accepted
  performance.
• Adversity provides greater opportunities.

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The Benefits of Adversity

• Adversity prompts innovation.
• Adversity brings unexpected benefits.
• Adversity motivates.

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What is Failure?

• Every successful person is someone who failed,
  yet never regarded himself as a failure.

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To Encourage Lead People

• Value people.
• Praise effort.
• Reward performance.

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Abilities Needed to Fail Forward

• Reject rejection.
• See failure as temporary.
• See failures as isolated incidences.
• Keep expectations realistic.

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Abilities Needed to Fail Forward

• Focus on strengths.
• Vary approaches to achievement.
• Bounce back.

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What is Success?

• Attitude determines how far you can go on the
  success journey.

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Misconceptions About Success

• Wealth
• A special feeling
• Specific and worthwhile possessions
• Power
• Achievement

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Identify Your Purpose

• For what am I searching?
• Why was I created?
• Do I believe in my potential?
• When do I start?

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Growing Your Potential

• Concentrate on one main goal.
• Concentrate on continual improvement.
• Forget the past.
• Focus on the future.

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We make a living by what we get but we make a
life by what we give.
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How Can a Leader Keep Climbing?

• Leaders have to give up to go up.

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The higher the level of leadership you want to
reach, the greater the sacrifices you will have
to make.