Positive Attitude Training

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Positive Attitude Training
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What is a positive attitude?

• A positive evaluation of people, things, events,
  ideas etc
• Seeing the good in situations
• Expecting good and successful results
• Looking for happiness and joy
• Enjoying the unexpected
• Being friendly to those you know
• Making others feel happy

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Why be positive?

• Feel healthier expecting failure and being
  negative can cause stress
• People want to be around positive people
• Helps give you control of your life
• Makes you more creative
• See opportunities
• Motivates you to achieve your goals
• You motivate others easier
• You will be happier

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Easy to be negative

• Life isnt perfect
• Loads of reasons to moan in the world
• Negativity needs less effort, it is a lazy
  response
• Takes responsibility for our failings away from
  us and places it on other people and things
• Negative memories last longer
• We crave acceptance and connection, when we feel
  down, it satisfies us to hear others do
• Negative people will encourage you to be negative
  too

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How to feel positive

• Smile
• Remember positive feelings e.g. raffle wins
• Think of things that make you laugh
• Relax read, listen to music, go for a walk
• Look after yourself
• Surround yourself with positive people
• Hug friends, family and pets
• Increase your social life
• Charity work
• Give genuine compliments

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remove the negative

• Your life is your garden, your thoughts are the
  seeds. If your life isnt awesome, youve been
  watering the weeds Terry Prince
• Dont think or talk in negative absolutes e.g.
  they will NEVER join or Im ALWAYS late
• Be careful the environment you choose for it
  will shape you be careful the friends you choose
  for you will become like them W Clement Stone
• Negativity is contagious
• Never pass the negative

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positive action

• Eat that frog! Brian Tracy
• Dont put off doing what you have to do but dont
  like doing
• Use phrases like Im able to, It is possible,
  I can, I like them because
• Be positive about others
• Be positive about yourself
• Expect success
• Life is 10 what happens to YOU and 90 how YOU
  respond to it Charles R Swindoll

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Negativity in business

• Outside influences
• Complainers, moaners
• Professional victims who dont like things going
  right
• Jealous of your and others success
• Those who blame others
• Pressure
• Inner influences
• Self-doubt
• Fear of failure
• Laziness

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Be positive in business

• Plan for success
• Embrace change, it happens
• Conflicts happen, keep it professional
• Be strong when you disagree with others negative
  views
• Dont add to negative comments even if you agree
• Dont become the focus of negativity
• When things dont go your way, forget it

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Be positive about others

• Praise your downline
• Praise company
• Edify other leaders
• Be happy at others success
• Share ideas
• Pass on credit that is due
• Be genuine in your praise
• If you cant say anything good . . . Shut up!

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Be positive about YOURSELF

• Dont take a no personally
• Build for yourself, not your upline
• Aim high
• Reward yourself
• Develop your skills
• Find reasons to praise yourself
• Believe you can
• Understand happiness is a choiceChoose happiness