Change Your Thoughts, Alter Your Attitude & Dictate Your Progress: Your Thoughts & Attitude Dictates Your Progress

Behavior is a by-product of attitude. That is, what a man preconceives is what he let out in form of behavior. Attitude is a mental disposition towards one's self, another person, a thing i.e. it is the feeling given to any stimulus around us. No matter what the opportunities available to you; if you don't greet such opportunities with positive attitude, you are doomed to fail. Attitude is the off-spring of nature, nurture and environment. Nature refers to all genetically inherited traits; nurture talks about the accumulation of life and living experiences (customs, tradition or culture) over time, while environment is centered on our present surroundings. William James an American Psychologist posited that "man alone of all creatures of the earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his destiny. The greatest discovery in our generation is that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." Bewilderedly, some people cannot live above poverty because they've already resigned to fate believing that they are destined to be poor while they assume that those who are rich were designed and predestined to be rich. More baffling is the notion that they are helpless and cannot do anything to change and improve their circumstances. This set of people who adopts this kind of mindset, attitude and/or approach to life are not always ready to take risk nor make efforts to upturn their circumstance. They are usually, laidback, pessimistic, passive and with grave low self-esteem often characterized with 'battered ego'. Attitude dictates and controls our behavior either consciously or sub-consciously. Whether you are a business person, a teacher, a student, a parent or whatever you are doing; your level of success will increase tremendously if you place high value on good thinking. James Allen maintained that "man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believe himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself..". as a man thinks so he is. Your thought empowers you for achievement. Emerson affirmed, "Thought rule the world" you can't gravitate above your thoughts. Your thoughts are propelling forces which create circumstances conducive to their own realization. They are invisible but cannot remain hidden for long because you will eventually act on them. In fact they are irresistible when they call for manifestation. Emmerson further noted that "thoughts converts itself into power." Your life and level of achievement today reflects the kind of thoughts you secretly conceived, harbored, encouraged and projected in the time past. It's impossible for you to manifest contrary to your thoughts. You are exactly a product of your thought. Praise George noted "many people allow their thoughts to be shaped by social consciousness; that is the beliefs held by a particular society. They refuse to question limiting beliefs and move along with the mindless crowd going nowhere" people fail to realize the utmost truth that they themselves are makers of themselves by the virtue of the thought they choose to encourage. In truth, victory and defeat originate from the mind. When all your thoughts are centered on victory in all your challenges, you will always emerge a victor conversely when your thoughts are debasing or centered on negation. "Every thought seed sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to take root there produces its own, blossoming sooner or later into act, and bearing its own fruitage of opportunity and circumstance" James Allen. Good thoughts bear good fruits, bad thoughts bad fruits. Change your thoughts, alter your attitude & dictate your life outcomes!

• | Author: Ekene A. Egbo
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Nov 03, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 56 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 153991013X
• | ISBN-13: 9781539910138