One of the most powerful abilities we possess as individuals is the power to choose our attitude. We can’t always control our circumstances, but we are the only one who can control what we think or how we think. It’s completely up to us to figure out how we want to look at the world around us and decide how we will react to it. We can either have a positive attitude of self-encouragement and motivation or a negative attitude of defeat and self-pity. The bottom line is the choice is ours and ours alone, no one can choose it for us, and it starts with our inner voice. It starts with what we tell ourselves about everything that is going on around us with what we see, feel, hear and touch. And what we tell ourselves about it is how we will respond to it. It’s our self-talk that drives our attitude throughout life. People may think that if you talk to yourself, you’re crazy! The fact of the matter is that if you don’t talk to yourself, you will go crazy.
As simple as all that may sound, we know that it’s not always that easy to choose the right attitude in every situation. It’s easier to have a good attitude when we’re not facing challenges or devastating circumstances. It’s when we have those not so good times that our choice of attitude is put to the test. We all have our ups and downs, our highs and our lows, but the fact will always remain that no matter what, it’s our choice. Only you can choose your attitude, no one else can choose it for you. The amazing thing about choosing the right attitude is that it sets us up to make different decisions which can significantly affect our current and/or future circumstances. That is why the choices that we make about our attitude are so important, because it will have that ripple effect. Good or bad attitudes will ripple out to give us continued good or bad circumstances. It won’t always be an easy choice to give ourselves positive self-talk when times are tough and it may take a more conscious, deliberate effort to speak positive words during those times, but it’s when we’re able to do that, that we’ll see things in our life change.
How we choose our attitude is largely based on habits. Habits that we form by consistently feeding our minds, consciously or sub-consciously, with the things we see and hear. If we constantly see or hear negative things, then our minds will naturally produce negative thoughts, but if we consistently see or hear positive things, then we will naturally produce positive thoughts. Those thoughts that we develop in our minds is what will ultimately come out in our self-talk. Positive or negative, good or bad, what we take in is what we will put out. You don’t have to be a victim of your circumstances as long as you remember to realize that you have the power to choose your attitude. We don’t always have control of what is going on around us, but we do have control of what we tell ourselves about it!
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