A Good Attitude Is Empowering
"The only disability in life is a bad attitude."-- Scott Hamilton
Mental attitude is so essential. It is probably the most important thing worth speaking of in all the self -help material you will encounter. Because attitude controls your mind which controls everything, why;. It's what makes the difference between a good professional athlete and a poor one; a productive businessperson or a failure; a great artist/musician and a poor one. Hamilton, our blogger today was no stranger to disability; he was two years old when he contracted a mysterious health problem that caused him to stop growing. He was misdiagnosed as having cystic fibrosis and was told by health professionals at one point that he had 6 months to live. Diet and exercise routine healed the problem though Hamilton achieved only a height of 5 feet 2 inches in his life-time. He didn't allow disability to halt him. In 1981 '82 and '83 Scott Hamilton won the gold medal in the World Figure Skating Championships, and won the gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics.
Hamilton is not the only example of men and women overcoming great obstacles in their lives. There is Helen Keller, blind and deaf from a very young age; President Abraham Lincoln who rose from being a bare foot poor boy from Missouri, to becoming a self taught layer who eventually became our 16th President of the United States. The list goes on and on of people beating the odds against them armed with simply a good attitude. A bad attitude can stop any man or woman's dream.
What is the trick to attaining the great attitude we talk so much about? Art Link letter said it this way: "Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out." That is the magic strategy and nothing more or less.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigned from a wheel chair and won the Presidential election in 1933. He served an unprecedented 4 terms in office from 1933-1945 serving as a physically disabled individual serving through some of the toughest times our country has ever seem seen also including the 2nd world and the great depression war.
Hamilton is right when he says the only disability is a bad attitude. A bad attitude can prevent you from getting a job by acting poorly on a job interview, it can break up marriages and drive a person to use street drugs or become chemically Dependant. A bad attitude can keep a beaten house-wife to stay with her brutal husband till he finally beats her to death; it can keep us all imprisoned to our own bonds of self-limitation if we allow it. It makes us all make bad choices in life which leads to nowhere and can make us penniless pawns of society. Having a bad attitude has a bad ending in store for all who choose that road of self indulgence and self pity which is where a bad attitude always leads in the end.
Having a good attitude empowers you and when you are equipped you can empower others you meet. Yes that's right, at times you will have to fake it till you make but in the long run you will see that having a good attitude will get simpler and easier until is comes as second nature to you. Today be empowered and decide to face your moment with a good attitude!
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