I hope you had a great holiday week and a happy New Year!
Each new year brings change. As for Brand-Yourself, we’re about to officially launch our online reputation management / personal brand management web service. As for you, this is the perfect time to make some positive change in your life.
I’ve been reading Jeffrey Gitomer’s “Little Book Of…” series lately. They are chock-full of great and practical tidbits to start the new year off right. In his Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude, there is a list of 20.5 attitude gems that I’d like to share with you.
Your attitude in life determines how you perceive yourself and how others see you. So here are 20.5 attitude adjustment tips straight from Gitomer to help you achieve your new years resolutions:
- Change your input to change to change your attitude. If you seek a positive mind and a positive attitude, you MUST expose yourself to positive information and hang around positive people. If you want to achieve positive, you have to surround yourself with it and live it
- You were born to win. But, “You must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”
- “The will to win is nothing without the will to prepare to win” (A Vince Lombardi quote)
- You will get whatever you want if you help enough people get what they want. A quote that many claim to have said. It doesn’t matter who said it – just live it.
- Make every day as productive as the day before you go on vacation. That’s the day EVERYTHING gets done.
- Ignore people who tell you, “You can’t.” (Except your boss.) People will try to discourage you for fear that you will pass them. Don’t let it happen.
- If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing.
- Don’t dwell on (whine about) the problem; concentrate on the solution. Resolve how you can; don’t lament why you can’t.
- Forgive and go forward. Grudge blocks positive. Until you clear the past, you are destined to repeat it.
- Self talk equals self-performance. Look at any athlete. Self-talk is a crucial part of expected positive performance.
- What is the picture you have of yourself? That is what you will become. Spend 15 minutes a day focusing on a positive picture.
- You will hear the word “No” 116,000 times in your lifetime. (Maybe more.) Try converting just 1,000 of them to “YES!” and the world is your oyster.
- What you do off the job determines what you are likely to do on the job. Uh oh.
- Strengthen your weaknesses and strengthen your strengths at the same time. Combine positive with negative for better personal development results.
- Failure is an event, not a person. Think of failure as “it,” and not “me.”
- ”It’s not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.” Sounds familiar? Attitude manifests itself in your response to events
- Every obstacle presents an opportunity, if you’re looking for it. “Revel” and “Lament” are choices. Your choices.
- Hard work makes luck. Nothing affects positive circumstances and results more than hard work.
- How many of your problems are cured with ten grand? If money makes your problems go away, attitude can make them go away as well.
- It’s not what you say; it’s how you say it. The tone of your verbiage determines the atmosphere of your environment.
and finally…
20.5 Resign your position as the general manager of the universe.
I hope that these have helped you as much as they have helped me and wish you the best in 2009!
Jeffrey Gitomer is the author of The Little Golden Book of YES! Attitude. President of Charlotte-based Buy Gitomer, he gives seminars, runs annual sales meetings, and conducts Internet training programs on selling and customer service at www.trainone.com. He can be reached at 704/333-1112 or e-mail to salesman@gitomer.com © 2008 All Rights Reserved.
- Author: Trace Cohen
