Got attitude? “YES!” You all scream. 

A positive one? “YES!” You all scream.

Wanna bet? 

I’ll bet every one of you “thinks” you have a positive attitude, and the same amount of you have NEVER taken a course in it or studied it. 

Let’s go a bit deeper. How much of your success is dependent on your positive attitude? The answer is somewhere between “lots” and “all.” 

So 80 to 100 percent of your success is dependent on your positive attitude, yet you’ve had no formal training. OK, suppose you needed surgery and I recommend a surgeon with no formal training, but “thinks” he can do a great job. Get it?

You can start by reading and studying these four books:

1. Think and Grow Rich — Napoleon Hill
2. How to Win Friends and Influence People — Dale Carnegie
3. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living — Dale Carnegie
4. The Power of Positive Thinking — Norman Vincent Peale

Me personally? I read two pages from these books every day. I’ve been doing attitude reading, watching, listening, studying, and practicing for 15 minutes a day for 35 years. 

If you want attitude, first study the science of it.  If you want wealth, first build a wealth of knowledge. 

I also recommend that you enroll in the nearest Dale Carnegie program. Carnegie courses are timeless and will provide a great attitude foundation.

Here are attitude gems I’ve picked up along the way that I recommend you read, cut out, copy, share with others, post on your wall, and study in a way that you implement into your “thought and expression” process. 

1. Change your input to change your attitude. If you seek a positive mind, you MUST expose yourself to positive information, and hang around positive people. 
2. You were born to win – but you must plan to win, prepare to win, then you can expect to win. (A famous Zig Ziglar quote).
3. The will to win is nothing without the will to prepare to win. (Vince Lombardi, famous coach).
4. You will get whatever you want if you help enough people get whatever they want. 
5. Make every day as productive as the day before you go on vacation. 
6. Ignore people who tell you “you can’t.” (except your boss). People will try to rain on your parade because they have no parade of their own.
7. If you have nothing nice to say about someone, say nothing. (A famous quote said by your mother).
8. Don’t dwell on (whine about) the problem, concentrate on the solution. 
9. Forgive and go forward. Grudge BLOCKS positive. Until you clear the past you are destined to repeat it.
10. Self-talk equals self-performance. Look at any athlete – self-talk is a crucial part of their expected positive performance.
11. What is the picture you have of yourself? That is what you will become. Spend 15 minutes a day focusing on a positive picture.
12. What you do off the job determines what you are likely to do on the job. Uh oh.
13. Strengthen your weaknesses and strengthen your strengths at the same time. Combine positive with negative for better personal development results.
14. Failure is an event, not a person. Think of failure as “it,” not “me.”
15. It’s not what happens to you. It’s what you do with what happens to you. 
16. Every obstacle presents an opportunity. 
17. Hard work makes luck. Nothing affects positive circumstance and results more than hard work.

OK. I have just given you the awareness – all you have to do is take the actions. Daily. Forever.