How to Change Your Attitude

Changing the way you think about things

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. — Lou Holtz

Life hasn’t gone the way you had hoped.

You are in your same dead-end job, in a career you thought had some promise.

But it didn’t turn out as planned.

You believe it just isn’t on your cards to have that dream life.

However, what could be the problem is not having the right kind of attitude.

You may want to explore changing your attitude and see if that doesn’t result in the changes you need for the better.

The first step is to figure out if your attitude could use some adjusting.

Do you find people trying to avoid you?

Do you find that you get set off by the smallest incidents? You may have just ignored what people have told you about you having a bad attitude.

The next time you are involved in some incident that goes bad, ask yourself this question. Is this something that was my responsibility?

Go through the scenario from the perspective of an outsider observing you. Is there anything you could have done differently that would have changed the…