NAMASKAR Positive attitude for personal transformation Dr Kedar

NAMASKAR Positive attitude for personal transformation Dr. Kedar Rayamajhi

Victor Frankl once wrote, You could be faced with a thousand problems, many or most over which you have absolutely no control. HOWEVER, there is always one thing you are in complete and absolute control of and that is your own attitude. Attitude is a choice

If ATTITUDE is such an important word, why do SO ? FEW people understand it?

Attitude is more important than what past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do and say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. Charles Swindool

Research showed homeless people in Calcutta are happier than those in California; happiness level of middle class in UK, South Korea and Japan did not at all increase between 1960/70 s to 1990 s.

“Reference anxiety”: For instance, widening gap in income distribution increases reference anxiety of lower income group.

1. Think of a time in your work/life experience, when you worked with a person having very positive attitude /thinking. Tell the story – who, when, where and what s/he did? What was the impact? 2. What impressed you most about his/her behaviour?

�Faith �Integrity �Hope �Optimism �Courage �Initiative �Generosity �Tolerance �Tact �Kindness Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill, 1937

Pause and Ponder This is attitude… Your attitude is your window to the world better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. — George Bernard Shaw

Pause and Ponder The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. Unknown “Ninety percent of the input in your minds today is negative. ” Ziglar

Pause and Ponder “Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain— And most fools do. ” —DALE CARNEGIE “The only disability in life is a bad attitude. ” —SCOTT HAMILTON

Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses. GEORGE WASHINGTON CARV ER Chemist who discovered over 325 uses for the peanut

Concept of attitude: “Attitudes are likes and dislikes – favorable or unfavorable evaluations of and reactions to objects, people, situations, or any other aspects of the world including abstract ideas and social policies”. An attitude is a person’s point of view towards something.

The Power of a Positive Attitude • High confidence. • Planning ahead. • Encouraging others. • Showing appreciation. • Thoroughness. • Conscientiousness • Alertness.

+ Importance of Attitude THE THINGS INSIDE US THAT MAKES US GO UP/DOWN IS ‘ATTITUDE’. SUCCESS OF AN INDIVIDUAL, ORGANISATION OR A COUNTRY DEPENDS ON THE QUALITY OF THE PEOPLE. AND THE QUALITY COMES FROM HIS/HER ‘ATTITUDE’. INDIVIDUAL WITH BETTER ‘ATTITUDE’ WOULD BE BETTER PERSON, WHICH WOULD CUT DOWN NEGATIVITY.

+ + HUMAN BEINGS CAN ALTER THEIR LIVES BY ALTERING THEIR ATTITUDES OF MIND. THINK, CAN AN EXECUTIVE/EMPLOYER/ EMPLOYEE BE GOOD IN THEIR ROLE WITHOUT GOOD ATTITUDE ? THE CALGARY TOWER. [190. 8 meter, TOTAL WT. 10, 884 TONS, BELOW GROUND 6, 349 TONS (60%) ]

Positive Responses These are the enthusiastic people who say: “Terrific. ” “Fantastic. ” “Great. ” “Excellent. ” “Super. ” “I’m on top of the world. ” “It doesn’t get any better. ”

Negative Responses The negative replies to How are you? include phrases such as: “Lousy. ” “Terrible. ” “I’m tired. ” “Don’t ask, It's not my day. “Thank God it’s Friday. ” “A day older and a dollar broker. ”

A negative attitude can lead to: • Carelessness • Ignorance • Fatalism. • Not sensitive • Cynicism • Laziness • Recklessness

Learning to appreciate �Artists do not look at a landscape and ask what is wrong with the picture, their focus is to look for what is valuable. Strength matters

Have we ever thought? Large proportion of potentials is unused at individual and organizations level. What would happen if we can see and unleash some of these potentials?

A new way of thinking and doing is the most…. “No problem can be solved from the same level of thinking that created it. We must learn to see the world anew. ” -Albert Einstein

How can we develop a new level of thinking?

Learning is the key…

Attitude learning to change • I am too old to learn. • Learning is restricted to schools & colleges only. Because we get degree/diploma certificate. • Nobody is a potential source of learning for me. • If I learn, I will be over burdened with work.

Kind of “Glasses of listening and learning” that people generally carry

FACTORS THAT DETERMINE OUR ATTITUDE 1. ENVIRONMENT 2. EXPERIENCE 3. EDUCATION In a positive environment, a marginal performer’s output goes up. And in a negative environment, a good performer’s output goes down.

“The foundation of success regardless of your chosen field, is ATTITUDE” -Shiv Khera In his book YOU CAN WIN

Fatalistic attitude A fatalistic attitude prevents people from accepting responsibility for their position in life. They attributes success and failure to luck. They resign themselves to their fate.

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�Life is redesignable – rewrite the story �Results are not accidental. Transfer your learning into action. �Everyone has a will to will but very few have the will to prepare to win. �Leave the legacy. �Healthy Attitude.

Steps to develop positive attitude 1. Look at the bright side of life. Focus at positive. 2. Find reasons to smile more often. 3. Contemplate upon the futility of negative thinking and worries. 4. Associate yourself with happy and positive people. 5. Read inspiring stories. Read inspiring quotes. 6. Develop an attitude of gratitude

Continued Engage in continuous learning process. Start or learn to like things that need to be done. Start your day with positive in the morning. At the end of each day, reflect on the positives of the day. What went right and why? Rather than focusing on what went wrong. Focus instead on what you've learned. At the end of the day repeat this affirmation: I am an optimistic, hopeful, positive thinking person.

Continued… We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything. Charles Swindool

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. WAYNE DYER Coauthor of How to Get What You Really, Really Want

Initiative The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

Continued IF AN EGG IS BROKEN BY AN OUTSIDE FORCE. . A LIFE ENDS. IF AN EGG BREAKS FROM WITHIN. . . LIFE BEGINS. GREAT THINGS ALWAYS BEGIN FROM WITHIN.

Is positive thinking ignoring reality? �Positive thinking is not ignoring reality. �Positive thinkers look for the best in a situation. �They do not ignore the negative event, just that they accept it and look for ways to make things more positive.

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All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. WAYNE DYER Coauthor of How to Get What You Really, Really Want

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