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POSITIVE TALK... with Linda Attitude Makes The Difference  Attitude: The way we think, act and feel. We create our own lives with our ideas and actions, and they can lead to great success or to frustration and disappointment. We all want success in our lives. And we can have it with the right attitude. Attitude encompasses our actions, feelings and moods. We can control our actions, feelings and moods; therefore, we can control our attitude.  Most people believe attitudes just happen. They don't. Attitudes are formed by the thoughts we hold in our minds over a period of time. These attitudes become the blueprints for our lives. Negative attitudes, full of fear, doubt and worry, reinforce negative behavior. But thinking positively creates positive attitudes, responses and feelings.  It's not easy to change our negative attitudes. It takes time, practice and it requires stepping out of our comfort zone, and allowing our selves to be uncomfortable. But the joy and success we experience when we act instead of react, when we see opportunity instead of problems, when we see possibility instead of impossibilities, is the greatest gift we can give ourselves and the people around us.  The ability to choose our thoughts, and thereby control our attitude, is one of our greatest assets. Positive thoughts produce a positive attitude thereby producing positive results. Negative thoughts produce a negative attitude thereby producing negative results. It is not so important that we have negative thoughts. That is natural. The long-lasting, harmful effect is our tendency to hang on and justify those thoughts. There is no negative attitude that the human mind cannot justify as being right. Fear, doubt, worry and hate are the basis of just about every negative attitude.  We can change our negative attitudes to positive ones and we can learn to control our reactions to life's situations by:  Controlling our thinking in a positive way. We can deliberately feed our minds with positive information. Replace fear with faith, doubt with determination, worry with work and hate with love.  Read positive books, listen to tapes, take classes, go to seminars, and surround yourself with positive people.  When you catch yourself putting yourself or others down, stop yourself immediately. Remember whatever you say to or about others, effects you because, whether they hear you or not there is one person that will always hear what you say and that person is you.  Use positive, uplifting words and affirmations. The way you verbalize effects the way you think and act. Our minds and bodies react to words. Either we control our words or they control us.  So, since we know that a positive attitude empowers us and we know that we have a choice why not choose a positive, optimistic attitude?  Questions/Comments