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Attitude is everything-Zig Ziglar



"Attitude is everything"


Attitude is something which makes major difference between the successful person and a failure one. Zig Ziglar is an amazing motivational speaker who has said about attitudes particularly right mental attitudes.

 would you like to make more money, have more fun, enjoy life more, reduce fatigues, increase effectiveness, get along better with your neighbors, contribute more to society, enjoy better health and improve family relationship?No, you are not reading the script from your daily soap opera. Nor is it Hadicol reborn.Nevertheless all the of these things are not possible without the right mental attitude.



In America today, there are over 30,000 schools that will teach you everything from trimming toenails to operating heavy machines to removing tonsils and curling hair. However there is not even a single school is there which will teach you how to better than mediocre unless you have the right mental attitude. This one thing about which everyone agrees, whether they are doctors, lawyers, teachers, salespersons, parents, kids, Democrats, Republicans, Coaches or athletes. They all share a opinion that your attitude as you undertake a project, is the dominant factor in its success. In short your attitude is more important than your aptitude.

 Despite the overwhelming evidence which supports the importance of the right mental attitude, our entire educational system from kindergarten to graduate school virtually ignores or is unaware of this vital fact in our life. 90% of our education is directed at acquiring facts and figures with only 10% of our education system aimed at our " feelings" or attitudes. And even than 10% is a little misleading because much of it is aimed at athletic events and their related activities.


These figures are truly incredible and distressing when we realize that our "thinking"(facts) brain is only 10% as large as our feelings(emotion-attitude)brain. 


A study at Harvard university revealed that 85% of the reasons for success, accomplishments, promotions, etc. were because our attitudes and only 15% because of our technical expertise(facts). Simply stated this means we are spending 90% of our educational time and money developing the parts on us which is responsible for 15% of our success. We spend 10% of our time and finances developing the part of us which accounts for about 85% of our success. And this doesn't take into account for the happiness and enjoyment factors. Students and teachers are starved for guidance in building the right mental attitude.  

 As a matter of fact, William James,the father of American Psychology ,stated that the most important discovery of our time is that we can alter our lives by altering our attitudes.









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