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S2 E 5 Attitude + Mindset: I Got a New Attitude


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Attitude: how your mindset is reflected and manifested in your personality and what you physically do

  • Attitudes can be positive, negative, and uncertain

Your attitude determines how you react with the world. It’s external.

  • Ruled by your conscious mind and is the 5% that your 95% mindset sets in motion 
  • Determined by watching actions
  • Attitudes can be “faked” or “feigned”

First, get clear about your attitudes

  • Stop comparing yourself out loud or showing evidence of it outright
    • Recognize you and everyone else is unique and different…and should be!
    • Develop your own set of standards of what good character is so you aren’t using someone else’s measuring stick
    • But also, surround yourself with people with positive attitudes
  • Take care of yourself physically, emotionally, financially, sexually…
    • Internal dialogue becomes external behavior
    • If you don’t feel cared for, it’s hard to care for others in the world
    • You can’t pour from an empty cup
    • Find what fulfills you and do it regularly…not when you’ve run out of steam and are in crisis
  • Build up your self-confidence and look like it
    • Tell yourself how amazing you are for what you’ve already accomplished (write yourself love notes, don’t take opportunities to belittle yourself, etc.)
    • Keep yourself motivated so you can keep going when it’s hard to accomplish difficult tasks (ask yourself for help when you need it, be unwilling to let yourself down)
  • Believe in yourself
    • If you don’t, who will?
  • Laugh…often
    • If you spend time laughing, you won’t spend time frowning
  • Permit yourself to be loved
    • Stop sabotaging your relationships because you’ve told yourself you’re unworthy
    • Open yourself to the possibility of it…everywhere
    • Act like a person who is loved instead of the person who has been wounded

https://www.clarke.edu/campus-life/health-wellness/counseling/articles-advice/developing-a-positive-attitude/

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The addJOY PodcastBy Maria Newport M.S.Ed., Kanika Bell Ph.D.