Attitude Determines Your Altitude

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how hard it is, we continue the job until it is perfected. Thomas A. Edisonsaid ³I have not failed. I¶ve just found 10,000 ways that don¶t work.´Why do people quit so easily after making a mistake? In my perception, amistake is not something terrible or negative but a life lesson learnt.Sometimes, we can never have or get what we always wanted. So what?Let it go and get on with life! If it is meant to be, then it is. Don¶t getdemotivated just because something didn¶t go the way you intended it to be.Most importantly, never beat yourself up for it. If we blame ourselves, thematter only gets worse. We¶ll be wallowing in sadness and we won¶t beable to think straight. This incident might eventually lead to depression.Take a break and smell the flowers. Don¶t go too hard on yourself. After all, we are only human.Think of God¶s wonderful creations and all the beautiful things in life. Lifeis magnificent if we look at it from a brighter perspective. It¶s not meant to be about work, stress or depression. These things happen only if we letthem happen. It¶s not anyone else¶s fault because you let it happen.Happiness starts within.

Perseverance is commitment,hard work, patience, endurance. With nodetermination and perseverance, we can kiss success goodbye.Perseverance is being able to bear difficulties calmly and withoutcomplaint. We have to try and try again. Who said life is a bed of rosesanyway? There definitely got to be ups and downs. We should rejoice and be grateful when we are at the ups and pick ourselves up when we areexperiencing the downs.All things will come round to him who will but wait. You may bedisappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. When

something starts to bother you, wait as long as you can before you expressfrustration. Focus on someone or something that ordinarily makes you loseyour patience and try to understand it. Whatever happens in life, face andaccept it.Write your problems down if it makes you feel better. When you look back at your entries, you¶ll either realise that your previous problemseemed so petty now or you had finally overcame that problem you hadand you¶re ready to tackle a new one. Besides that, relaxing or motivatingmusic will definitely perk you up.Beethoven persevered despite being deaf and managed to compose many beautiful pieces like Fur Elise. Thomas Edison (inventor) had a learning problem, Stevie Wonder (musician) is blind, Terry Fox (runner) is anamputee with cancer, Helen Keller (author) was deaf and blind, Franklin D.Roosevelt (president) was paralyzed from polio and Stephen Hawking(physicist) has Lou Gehrig¶s disease. Great people always persevere nomatter what.

The right attitude

Many inventors were first frustrated when using the wrong resources for their inventions but when they imbibed the right information with the rightattitude, their inventions became known and they became inventors.Money, wealth, riches, good quality of life, flashy cars or big houses etc.whatever is it that drives you to acquisition of anything is not the greatestachievement in life but the right attitude to everything and everyone in life.As we embark on this new journey this week, let us adopt the right attitudeto our friends, neighbours, colleagues, workers, employers, businesses andto everyone we come across, every relationship or friendship we findourselves in and more importantly our relationship to our maker, our creator, the one who moulded us out of nothing, HE has made ussomebody out of nothing, record how far your positive or negative attitudetakes you this week and determine to change the world around you.