POSITIVE ATTITUDE

Assignment No: 01

Course Title: Industrial Psychology Course No: BA-2107

Submitted By: 6th SENSE

Saurav Das Alif Islam Sheikh Mamunur Rahman Shamol Kumar Ghosh MD. Masum Hasan : : : : : 100305 100308 100317 100327 100344

Submitted To:
S. M. Arifuzzaman Lecturer

KHULNA UNIVERSITY Business Administration Discipline BBA Program 2nd Year, 1st Term

June 29, 2011

Executive Summary
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force. Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

Attitude
A predisposition to act or feel in a certain way towards a certain person or thing is known as attitude. Attitude is a learned mental state. It is more or less enduring, subjective and reflects a persons values. Different situations influence attitude. Attitudes are generally positive or negative views of a person, place, thing, or event this is often referred to as the attitude object. People can also be conflicted or ambivalent toward an object, meaning that they simultaneously possess both positive and negative attitudes toward the item in question.

Positive Attitude
A hypothetical construct that represents an individual's degree of like or dislike for something positively is called positive attitude. Positive attitude helps to cope more easily with the daily affairs of life. It brings optimism into our life, and makes it easier to avoid worry and negative thinking. If we adopt it as a way of life, it will bring constructive changes into our life, and makes us happier, brighter and more successful. With a positive attitude we can see the bright side of life, become optimistic and expect the best to happen. It is certainly a state of mind that is well worth developing and strengthening.

The Importance or Power of Positive Attitude

Positive attitude helps to cope more easily with the daily affairs of life. It brings optimism into our life, and makes it easier to avoid worry and negative thinking. Now we are focusing the importance of positive attitude in human life. Achieving Goals and Attaining Success: Positive attitude helps achieving goals and attaining success. It motivates human to take challenges and risk to reach the highest destination of life.

Success achieved faster and more easily: Positive attitude makes it possible to achieve the goal of life faster and easily. For this reason we see the positive people in the high places.

More happiness: Those who are positive in their nature, they are the happiest person in the world.

More energy: Positive attitude creates more energy in the work of an individual. It creates greater inner power and strength.

The ability to inspire and motivate ourselves and others: A positive person can motivate or influence others with his or her positive attitude. That is important for everybody.

Fewer difficulties encountered along the way: By positive attitude, a person can think any situations positively. So, he or she faces fewer difficulties in life.

The ability to overcome any difficulty: With positive attitude a person can overcome any kind of unfavorable situation and produce the best result giving best efforts.

People will respect us. If we adopt it as a way of life, it will bring constructive changes into our life, and makes them happier, brighter and more successful. With a

positive attitude we can see the bright side of life, become optimistic and expect the best to happen. It is certainly a state of mind that is well worth developing and strengthening.

A positive attitude leads to happiness and success and can change our whole life. If we look at the bright side of life, our whole life becomes filled with light. This light affects not only us and the way we look at the world, but also our whole environment and the people around us. If it is strong enough, it becomes contagious.

Influence of Positive Attitude on Individual Perspective

A person with attitude always tries to do work positively and make the work perfect with his knowledge about the work. Basically positive attitude teaches us about thinking positively and creates confidence of the work of a person that is the key to success. Some points of influences of positive attitude on individual perspective: Enhance social relationship: A person with positive attitude keeps relation with others and make him familiar to them. As it is known to all that, we have some relationships with our society and enhancing social relationship a person with positive attitude keeps his duty or bondage towards the society. Remove ego problem: Ego is the combination of personal thoughts and values. When a person maintain positive attitude, he or she can avoid ego problem. Decrease break-up of marriage life: In marriage life people face many problems but actually those are not difficult to solve. In reality many relationship and marriage break up for these small problems. Positive attitude helps to increase bondage among family members and couples. Expecting success: Everybody wants success and it is the eternal want of a person. But the person with positive attitude can work for his expecting success. Because it is

known to him that every work requires accomplishing hard work with courage. That is possible only by a positive person. More happiness: A positive person gets more happiness than an ordinary person because he or she always happy what he or she has and for that he or she has no blame rather he or she tries to improve the condition of life. So the influence of positive attitude in an individuals life is very much effective. With giving a person confidence or ability, it takes him or her in the right destination of life.

Positive Attitude in Work Place

To cultivate a positive attitude in the workplace first requires a good look at what attitude is. Achieving success through attitude is the easiest way to climb our career ladder. Below there are some habits of thinking and behaving we need to practice in order to maximize our chances of achieving success through attitude. Find out how we're contributing to problems in our workplace: People who are the most successful have learned the importance of identifying where they're shunning responsibility. Looking at areas in our work life where we're always blaming or complaining. What are we failing to be responsible for here? Make a good position: In our life we want to gain a good position in every aspect. To gain success in our life positive attitude is too much necessary. Job satisfaction: Job satisfaction occurs when people take their assigned task positively. So employer wants to employ a person having positive attitude. Stop trying to change our workmates. Focus only on changing our own feelings, thoughts and actions in order to change our attitude. In truth, most people don't invest much time developing self awareness so they remain unconscious of their behavior and their impact on the people around them. We simply cannot change these people.

Well, we can. But the only proven way to see amazing changes in other people is to first change ourselves. To start, put more emphasis on practicing the power of positive thinking in our workday. Practice being grateful for our job and our workplace. It is said that the healthiest of all human emotions is gratitude. Rather than looking for what's wrong at work, start to focus on what's right. A great way to cultivate a positive attitude in the workplace is to keep a daily list of 5-10 things we're grateful for at work. we'll be surprised how quickly this simple positive self talk exercise will shift our perspective of work. Look for the opportunity. In every bad situation the Law of Polarity dictates there is also good. Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Whenever we perceive that something bad is happening or has happened, we will get into the habit of practicing positive self talk by switching our focus to see the hidden opportunity. There is always one there. Make a conscious effort to think before we act: If we have an attitude that needs shifting, it requires shifting thoughts, feelings and actions that have become habit. This requires greater mindfulness in each and every minute. Learn to practice more control in how we respond to work challenges minute-by-minute. This can be as simple as focusing on positive self talk and filtering out negative messages. We all want to feel good and enjoy our careers. But many of us have lost our way and no longer know how to find the joy in the everyday mundane tasks our jobs require. By cultivating a positive attitude in the workplace, we will slowly shift the energy and consciousness of the people around us. Just like some people can really bring us down, our attitude and behavior can elevate other people to great heights and new possibilities. By focusing on improving our attitude in the workplace, we will assume a position of leadership as we'll quickly become an influential source of strength and influence for those around us.

Tips for Developing Positive Attitude

It is not always easy to stay positive and keep a good attitude. As things go wrong throughout our day, it is easy to let negative thoughts start to take over. Thankfully there are many things that we can do to help maintain a positive attitude. These are things that we can do on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis to make sure we can keep positive focus. Those are given below Reading positive and inspiring books: One of the best ways to maintain a positive attitude is by reading positive books. These books serve to encourage us, inspire us, and teach us. Reading requires that we sit still and focus, and by focusing on something positive it helps us to keep a positive mindset throughout the day.

Waking up Early: One of the best ways to maintain a positive attitude is to create the habit of waking up early. Waking up early allows us to get a head start on the day. We can prepare for work and start our day without feeling rushed. We can get a head to start on important projects before the rest of the world is awake to interrupt us. We can spend time reading or in prayer or meditation.

Exercise: Very few things in life leverage our time as much as exercise. Obviously it makes a difference for our physical health, but it also has significant benefits to our mental health. Exercise is useful to combat depression and to improve overall positive mood. Further, if we exercise early in the morning we can go through our day knowing that we have already completed the most valuable activity we had to do!

Plan our week and day: Having a clear plan to our day and to our week can go a long way to helping us maintain a positive attitude. By knowing what we want to accomplish we will be able to focus on our important life priorities. A weekly plan allows us to match our long-term goals to our weekly accomplishments. Our daily plan allows us to complete the activities we need to do so that we meet our weekly goals.

Other ways to develop a positive attitude that will lead us to happiness and success: There are some others way to attain positive attitude. Those are as follows Learn concentration and meditation. Choose to be happy. Look at the bright side of life. Choose to be and stay optimistic. Find reasons to smile more often. Have faith in ourselves and in the Power of the Universe. Contemplate upon the futility of negative thinking and worries. Associate ourselves with happy people. Read inspiring stories. Read inspiring quotes. Repeat affirmations that inspire and motivate we. Visualize only what we want to happen. Learn to master our thoughts.

Conclusion
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. A positive attitude may not solve all our problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything we do and by our everyday attitude that we are wholeheartedly supporting them. Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. We get good grades or poor grades according to our attitudes. We cannot control what happens to us, but we can control our attitude toward what happens to us, and in that, we will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master us.

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