FIVE

Develop a Positive Mental Attitude

SHAKESPEARE WROTE, “Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

There is a formula that says that it is your attitude more than your aptitude that determines your altitude.

The more positive and constructive you become, the more you will be liked and respected. You will be paid more and promoted faster. More people will like you, support you, want to be around you, and cooperate with you.

The more positive you become, the more influential and persuasive you will be with other people. Like flowers opening up in the sunshine, people open up to those who are warm and friendly toward them.

Maya Angelou famously said, “People will forget what you do and say, but they will always remember how you ...

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