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.
 The Psychology Of Attitudes

• 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
 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 they

are 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 responsibility

l Imagination, innovation and integrity
l Goals oriented, graciousness and
greatness
l Habits, good health and humor
l Time, thinking and trusting
 The Wrong Attitude

Wrong attitude Characteristics:

Worrying about things that can`t be controlled
Rushing to judgement
Overreacting

Neglecting areas of control

Giving up too soon

 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
Attitude is pre- disposition state of mind characterised
Family w ith consistency and definite direction

Ethnic Group

Class ATTITUDE

Mental Set

Geographic
Location Attitude is a function of Environment, Organisational
systems 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 changes
Are you finding yourself in this box

l Envy
l Ego and anger
l Imbalance
l Self pity
l Indecisive
l Critical in nature
l Inferiority complex
 DYNAMICS OF POSITIVE ATTITUDE

Attitude Personality Result

Activator Attitude In Action
• Anticipation
• Expectation • Enthusiastic
• Hope • Courageous • Success
• Confidence • Optimistic • Recognition
• Faith • Cheerful • Happiness
• Patience • Sincere • Growth
• Humility • Warm • Admiration
• Love • Relaxed • Friends
• Belief
 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 Success
No 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

Attitude Personality Result

Activator Attitude In Action
• Fear • Worry
• Doubt • Inconsiderate • Tension
• Envy • Pessimistic
• Anger • Weak • Frustration
• Conceit • Cold • Failure
• Self Pity • Sour • Sickness
• Suspicion • Irritable • No Friends
• Indecision
• Criticism
 Altitude is raised
through

l Meditation l Activities
l Contemplation connected in
l Prayer some ways
with the
l Spiritual uplifting
exercise energy of life.
l creativity
l Services
Attitude is lifted through

l Inspiring l T V shows
lectures
l Learning
Reading
l
concepts and
l Seminars techniques
l Therapy that lead to an
l Support groups enlightened
l Books approach
l Movies
A Positive
Attitude
 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 mission
since you have recently developed
negative attitude

Do not under estimate your self .To boost your self

confidence practice to say …..!
that,
l I am relaxed

l I am a person of great integrity

l I am a sincere person

l I am courageous

l I am enthusiastic

l I am a confident person.
 Positive thinking

l I am a smart and honest person

l I am a positive person
l I am capable of doing all the
things
l 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 l Practice
complainer enthusiasm
l Do not express in l Avoid arguments
negative ways arguments comes
l always start with out of ego and
positive nods negative attitude
l Do not wait for and l ( This is a positive
expect response attitude)
l put smile on your
face ( it gives face
value)
 Winners Vis-à-vis losers

WINNER LOSERS
l winners say “if it is l I cant help it
to be it is up to me” l Translate reality in
l Winners translate to dreams
dreams in to l Losers says no
reality body knows
l Winners says lets l Losers are afraid
fine out. of winning
l Winners are not
afraid of losing
 Winner vis-ve-vis losers

l A winner works harder l Loser is always too

than losers busy
l Winners make l Loser makes
commitment. promises
l A winner does it l A loser talks about
l A winner sees l A loser sees problem
opportunities l A losers says I only
l Winner feels more work
responsible far more l Loser expects failure
than his job
 Mind it well !

l A person who is afraid of mistake

does not take decisions
l Weak people can never been sincere
l Cowards can never practice honesty
l All success stories are stories of
failures
l 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 motivator
l Winners put extra efforts to
accomplish their TASK
l Be courageous things have to
happen
l 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….