Is Your Attitude Undermining Your Personal And Professional Development?
Much has been written regarding Professional Development from various notable authors including Tony Robbins and Steve Pavlina to name a few. I believe they and others have contributed very positively to the professional development field and have made tremendous contributions to the field, but more importantly helping others-such as yourself to improve in certain areas of your life that you would like to improve.
One topic area I believe that has been genuinely been under looked by the industry as a whole is the area dealing with one's attitude. Your attitude and how you deal with it is critical to every aspect of your personal and professional development. A lot of this is common sense but I believe the topic area of attitude needs to be discussed, understood, and reinforced in the area of personal development if you ever want to make improvements in your overall quality of life.
I want to make the distinction between attitude and personality. Your personality is the "ID" of you are as a person, likes and dislikes-how you interact with others, introverted vs extroverted. Your attitude on the other hand is how you react to circumstances around you (both good and bad).
Many of the Problems You are Facing In Your Personal and Professional Life Can be Directly related to Your Attitude.
In Western Societies and here in the United States, there is an overwhelming epidemic of the "blame game" when it comes to people's problems and how they believe that they been "wronged". Perhaps you no doubt can identify. You didn't get the raise or the big job promotion you were expecting, because you were treated "unfairly". You didn't get the job, the nice house or any other material item because you were wronged-treated "unfairly".
Your relationship with your boyfriend/girlfriend, (wife/husband) fizzled or is ending because of "their" issues and "their" problems. You weren't compatible because "they" wouldn't change. If only "they" had changed the way that you wanted them too-then life would be ROSY.
There's a great verse in the bible: Matthew 7:3 "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? Don't worry-this is not a bible lecture, nor a sermon on the mount! However, this simple little verse is filled with all the wisdom you can ever hope to find, use and apply in your life-that directly deals with your attitude. You see as a society we are so quick to judge and condemn others for various of things in our life. I believe it stems from the human condition of sin-that we are all very selfish, self seeking and self serving individuals by nature at everyone else's expense!
The point here is this: before you falsely accuse or blame others for your "misfortune", that you were somehow wronged, and denied what was 'rightfully", and "deservingly" yours as an act of "birthright" or "entitlement"; why don't you first examine your own heart and attitude FIRST, to see if maybe you are part of the blame for misfortunes in your own life, the broken relationships, not getting he raise, or he big job promotion. Maybe, just maybe you are setting yourself up for failure because of your attitude and how you are reacting to your circumstances.
Nobody wants to admit to being wrong. So much in society is based upon being in control, image is a big deal. Just take a look at our political leaders and Hollywood elites. And these people are the ones that everyone wants to emulate because they have got it all "together". (Image is Everything.....)
Remember, in life, 10% of what happens to you happens, the 90% is how you deal with what happens to you. You cannot control what happens to you can control how you react to what happens to you. I leave you with this: You have two choices in life regarding circumstances, you can Bitter, or you can be Better? Which one of these are people seeing in you?
