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A New Attitude

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A New Attitude

Achieving Personal and Professional Success by Keeping A Positive Mental Outlook

Career Press,

15 min read
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The first step in the journey to prosperity and happiness is taken inside your head.

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Editorial Rating

5

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  • For Beginners
  • Inspiring

Recommendation

The universal goal is to combine career and financial success with personal happiness, but if that were easy, everyone would be prosperous and blissful. Well, maybe not everyone, but certainly you, says author Marian Thomas, who maintains that you can achieve all this and more by changing your attitude. In this concise book, the author discusses attitude as it relates to personal and business success. In her spin on the Norman Vincent Peal classic, The Power of Positive Thinking, Thomas offers workplace examples and tips. The book is an excellent primer for readers who want a quick introduction to positive thinking and attitude. Readers who want more depth may need to consult secondary sources, but they will still find value here.getAbstract recommends this book to employees, students and managers, as well as to anyone who’d like a most positive outlook (and maybe some of that money and bliss).

Summary

Positive Mental Attitude

Success and attitude are intertwined. A positive mental attitude can contribute greatly to success in your personal life, your relationships and your career. In one study, a professor of psychology found that insurance agents who had positive mental attitudes anticipated a positive response from their sales calls. Those agents outsold their more pessimistic counterparts by 37%. Other experts estimated that attitude may account for as much as 80% of an individual’s success. Most experts agree that where two people have equal aptitude, success alights on the person with the positive mental attitude.

Given that, why do many people have a negative mental attitude? The answer lies in childhood programming. Optimistic parents tell their children, "You can do it," or "Give it a try." But, parents who are pessimistic program their children for negativity by saying, "Don’t waste your time trying," or "You never do anything right." This early training establishes attitudes that people take into adulthood.

Pessimistic tendencies do not have to remain with you for your lifetime, because you can learn to change your attitude from pessimistic to optimistic...

About the Author

Marian Thomas is the editor of Customer Service: The Key to Winning Lifetime Customers and is author of the following, out-of-print titles: Balancing Career and Family, Positive Mental Attitude in the Workplace and Service, Service, Service: the Key to Winning Lifetime Customers.

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