Developing a Positive Attitude

•Attitude is the way you communicate. Your mood to others. It is the way you look at things mentally.Attitude is the readiness to act.

•Your feelings ,desires, fears, convictions, state of readiness.

•External environment all combine together to form your attitude.

•85 % of interpersonal problems are caused due to negative attitude or biased attitude towards others, whether at home or at work.

•Mental Postures

• Guide to Conduct

• Feelings and Fear

• Frame of Reference

• Predisposition of Behavior

ATTITUDE

l Attitude is everything. It’s the way you respond to life each day-all day.

l It’s the way you define and interpret your experiences.

l It’s the sum total of your beliefs, assumptions,expectations and values.

l Attitude is the way we look at the world through our expectations and beliefs.

Attitudes In Action

l Early in life, we imitate the attitudes of our parents,teachers,friends and leaders.

l Entering adolescence, we latch onto the attitudes of those we admire, respect or fear.

l In later life either we continue the adolescent process; or adopt the behaviour and attitude of popular sports figures, entertainers, or cult heroes.

Parents must be positive models for their kids. However sometimes parents slip into negative modes. When they do, their kids are the first to remind them.

Attitude affects productivity

On an average, we process 50,000 thoughts during the day.-Our thoughts affects each of our personality. -Affects our attitude and productivity.

When expectations are positive - we are generous &helpful towards others.

Exercise better judgement in problem solving,decision making and creative skills.

When our expectations are negative, - We have less ability to solve problems - We feel insecure and emotionally fragile.

When Attitude Are At Odds With Behaviour

Sometimes attitudes and behaviour are not in harmony as they are supposed to

be. we must find a way to realign either the

attitude or behaviour and relieve the discomfort of what psychologist call

cognitive dissonance.

We all need to perform an attitude check :

•To take off our attitude shields

•Evaluate the attitudes developed

•Clean off some old attitudes and replace

them with new ones.

Nothing happens until you mix attitude and action.

If Mother Teresa had stayed in

her convent, the Missionaries of

Charity would not have

established 517 centres in 120

Countries.

• Knowledge of Attitudes contributes to understanding

people’s reaction. • Disagreements occur as attitudes influence the way

facts are experienced. • The meanings and importance of things are

determined by attitudes. • Prejudice is an unfavourable attitude • Interpretations of facts tend to support existing

attitude. • Attitudes have an emotional content, thus emotion is

likely to influence certain attitudes

The Psychology Of Attitudes

ATTITUDE STRUCTURE

• Attitudes develop in the process of need satisfaction.

• Individual develops favourable attitudes towards object and belief that satisfy his wants.

• Many attitudes held by people lack validity, simply because theyare not sufficiently well informed.

• The individual has to necessarily depend upon the opinion of experts. For a child, experts are his parents; for a student, the teachers; for the writers, the books; for the religious persons, the pundit or priests; for scientists, the findings of the other scientist of the field, etc.

The Right Attitude

l Reality, risk taking and responsibilityl Imagination, innovation and integrityl Goals oriented, graciousness and

greatnessl Habits, good health and humorl Time, thinking and trusting

The Wrong Attitude

Wrong attitude Characteristics:

Rushing to judgement

Overreacting

Neglecting areas of control

Giving up too soon

Worrying about things that can`t be controlled

Our attitude dictates our actions

l We need to learn how to process thoughts and think in the way that benefit our lives.

l The illiterates of the future are not those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.

l The real trick is to internalize the necessity of lifelong learning.

ATTITUDE

Family

Ethnic Group

Class

Mental Set

Geographic Location

ATTITUDEAttitude is pre- disposition state of mind characterisedwith consistency and definite direction

Attitude is a function of Environment, Organisationalsystems and group pressures

PERCEPTION

• People act as they perceive

• Perception is responsible for facts being seen differently by different people.

• People's perception is determined by their needs.

• The individual's perception is more influenced by his social environments then by his physical environment.

• An individual perceives any situation or thing according to his frame of reference and attitude which develops from his socio-economic and cultural factors.

CHANGING ATTITUDES

• Can be changed by Education • Can be changed by Training The following factors also play an important role in inducing change • The Credibility of person trying to induce change • The age of the person who's attitude is to be changed • The cultural context in which the change is being induced

Attitudinal changesAre you finding yourself in this box

l Envyl Ego and angerl Imbalancel Self pityl Indecisive l Critical in naturel Inferiority complex

DYNAMICS OF POSITIVE ATTITUDE

Attitude Activator

Personality Attitude In Action

Result

• Anticipation • Expectation • Hope • Confidence • Faith • Patience • Humility • Love • Belief

• Enthusiastic • Courageous • Optimistic • Cheerful • Sincere • Warm • Relaxed

• Success • Recognition • Happiness • Growth • Admiration • Friends

POSITIVE ATTITUDE

• Life is “now”• Time to do what you want to do is now

• Desire to achieve • Commitment to achieve

• Capacity to get along with others • Clarity in target/goals.

POSITIVE ATTITUDE

Key to SuccessNo Matter What Attitude We Adopt. The Flow of

Life Continues But in the Moment We Do Have Choice About the Direction In Which We Lean.

When We Resist the Flow, Life Becomes More Difficult.

“Positive Attitude Means Leaning in the Direction in Which Life Is Flowing”

DYNAMICS OF NEGATIVE ATTITUDE

AttitudeActivator

PersonalityAttitude In Action

Result

• Fear• Doubt• Envy• Anger• Conceit• Self Pity• Suspicion• Indecision• Criticism

• Inconsiderate• Pessimistic• Weak• Cold• Sour• Irritable

• Worry• Tension

• Frustration• Failure• Sickness• No Friends

Altitude is raised through

l Meditationl Contemplationl Prayerl Spiritual

exercisel creativityl Services

l Activities connected in some ways with the uplifting energy of life.

Attitude is lifted through

l Inspiring lectures

l Readingl Seminarsl Therapyl Support groupsl Booksl Movies

l T V showsl Learning

concepts and techniques that lead to an enlightened approach

A PositiveAttitude

Building Positive Attitude

•Look for goodness in people

•Build a positive Self Esteem

•Avoid Negative Influences

•Work on Continuous Self Development

IF YOU WANT AND IF YOU CAN’T - YOU HAVEN’T TRIED.

A Winning Attitude

Positive thinking - a missionsince you have recently developed

negative attitude

Do not under estimate your self .To boost your self confidence practice to say …..!

that,l I am relaxedl I am a person of great integrityl I am a sincere personl I am courageousl I am enthusiastic l I am a confident person.

Positive thinking

l I am a smart and honest personl I am a positive personl I am capable of doing all the

thingsl I give results

I Can win

Attitudinal changes(How to overcome)

l Winners recognise their limitations but focus their strength.

l Losers recognise their strength but focus their weakness

l Do not ever fight with pigs , you will get dirty.

l All success stories are stories of failures

What U should do

l Don’t be a complainer

l Do not express in negative ways

l always start with positive nods

l Do not wait for and expect response

l put smile on your face ( it gives face value)

l Practice enthusiasm

l Avoid arguments arguments comes out of ego and negative attitude

l ( This is a positive attitude)

Winners Vis-à-vis losers

WINNERl winners say “if it is

to be it is up to me”l Winners translate

dreams in to reality

l Winners says lets fine out.

l Winners are not afraid of losing

LOSERSl I cant help itl Translate reality in

to dreamsl Losers says no

body knowsl Losers are afraid

of winning

Winner vis-ve-vis losers

l A winner works harder than losers

l Winners make commitment.

l A winner does itl A winner sees

opportunitiesl Winner feels more

responsible far more than his job

l Loser is always too busy

l Loser makes promises

l A loser talks aboutl A loser sees probleml A losers says I only

workl Loser expects failure

Mind it well !

l A person who is afraid of mistake does not take decisions

l Weak people can never been sincerel Cowards can never practice honestyl All success stories are stories of

failuresl Keep your self esteem high (self

esteem = how you feel about yourself)

Mind it well !

l You are responsible for your behaviour

l Belief is the greatest motivatorl Winners put extra efforts to

accomplish their TASKl Be courageous things have to

happenl Whatever happens, happens for

good.

Mind it well !

l The world is full of lazes, if you want to do more, there is no competition .

l Winners do inspite of odd , losers find excuses

YOU CAN WIN ! The wolf has come to go….