Rating: 5/5
Favorite Quote:
"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes"
Do you love the life you live, or do you want to live a life you love? Which one are you?
One day sitting in my den, I realized - there is got to be more to my life than what I am doing/what I have now – there is got to be more than this misery and unhappiness and that night in my ‘den’ was turning point of my life. Hopefully it will be visible to the world soon.
When we combine the positive attitude with other success principles, we become unstoppable.
Your thoughts dominate and drive your circumstances, your attitude towards life and people is your window to your world.
Attitude is everything is a book based on Jeff Keller's journey of being a motivational speaker. Being a lawyer, he was doing well, but something is amiss. He decides to make a gradual and start working as a full-time motivational orator in 1992. This is a self-help book that makes us look at life in a different light. In this book the author talks of how his life was completely transformed when he modified his attitude toward life.
Jeff has very smartly used quotes from famous leaders to connect the story and convey his message. The author explains how one can bypass negative people in their personal and professional life.
What my take from the book is we have the whole universe to offer us what we want, it depends on what we ask for. The universe does not build boundaries, we build our mental boundaries that are restricting us from achieving our dreams.
As humans, we always try to insinuate/evaluate something good or bad of any future event or action, and this defines the quality of efforts that we put to achieve the goal. The fact is as a general tendency, we have been tuned to think of the negatives first and hence, we direct our efforts to prevent the anticipated damage rather than focusing and putting more energy on the positives.
Positive thinking doesn't mean that you will achieve your goal overnight or you will think about making money and gets the opportunity next day. Success requires effort, commitment and patience. With this action plan and positive believe system everything is possible to achieve.
The author portrays our attitude as a window to the world (one of my favorite parts of the book). Keeping our window squeaky clean with dominant positive thoughts and a vision of the future enables us to attain anything and everything in life.
This book is divided into three parts (12 Lesson):
Success begins in the mind - THINK
Watch your words -SPEAK
Heaven helps those who act - ACT
The foremost objective of the book is to make you believe that you can achieve anything you desire.
Some of the lessons:
The key to success lies in only 6 words, but the most interesting thing is that these words are the key of failure too.
Are you ready for the key to success? Here it is:
"WE BECOME WHAT WE THINK ABOUT"
There is a law called "LAW OF DOMINANT THOUGHT" which states that:
"THERE'S A POWER WITHIN EACH ONE OF US THAT PROPELS US IN THE DIRECTION OF OUR CURRENT DOMINANT THOUGHTS"
It means that whatever we think mostly in the whole day does happen with us.
This book is a necessary addition to anyone's success library and must be visited frequently.
"You can’t control the circumstances. But you can control your own thoughts"
Shi'tare
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