People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway.

If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies; Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway.

– Mother Teresa

Perception is the physical sensation interpreted in the light of experience; it is the way you see or look at something, while Attitude is the mental position, feeling, or emotion towards a fact or state.

Your attitude towards your work, your job, and the situation you find yourself in has a significant impact on how effective, productive, and happy you become; if you have a positive attitude, you’re more likely to succeed than if you have a negative attitude.

If you have a negative attitude, you feel bad about the things that happen to you, and you expect the worst. As a result, when bad things happen you feel bad, and you’re trapped in a cycle of negativity. Conversely, if you have a positive attitude, you generally feel good about your situation, and so when bad things happen you can take them in strides “one of those things” and move on.

However, having a positive attitude isn’t about being blindly optimistic. Things go wrong sometimes, and pretending that things will “be OK in the end” is not a good way to manage your life. But rather, having a positive attitude means being realistic about your situation and why things are happening, and trying to find a way to capitalize on your experiences – positive and negative – instead of allowing them to grind you down.

Have you ever noticed how some people can find something good in every situation?

One of the best ways to do this is to alter the way you look at the situations you find yourself in. Positive people always look at things from a positive perspective.

You may be lucky enough to have a “sunny disposition” but most people find themselves looking at the negative side of situations at some point. If you can look at what happens to you from positive perspective, then you can deal with situations positively.

Changing your perspective from negative to positive can benefit you by:

·   Enabling you to take control of what happens to you.

·   Letting you examine your reactions so that you don’t overreact to situations.

·   Allowing you to think of creative ways to deal with negative situations that you face.

Before you change your perspective, you need to understand what your current perspective is. The best way to do this is to consider 3 aspects of any situation:

·   What or who you believe to be in control of the situation.

·   The extent to which your reactions are rational.

·   Whether you focus of the negative or positive aspects of the situation

·   Emotional intelligence is not about being nice all the time. It’s about being honest.

·   Emotional intelligence is not about being touchy-feely. It’s about being aware of feelings, yours and other people’s.

·   Emotional intelligence is not about being emotional. It’s about being smart with your emotions.

·   Emotional intelligence is knowing how to use your passions to motivate yourself and others.

·   Emotional intelligence is knowing how to keep your distressing emotions under control.

·   Emotional intelligence is a type of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use the information to guide one’s thinking and actions.

·   Emotional intelligence is knowing how we and others feel, why we feel that way, and what can be done about it.

·   Emotional Intelligence is our ability to understand and use the power of our emotions wisely. It’s learning the difference between “I think” and “I feel,” and hearing the difference when others say it.

·   Emotional intelligence is learning to manage our emotions rather than letting them control us.

The thing to remember is that emotions are not good or bad. Emotions are information. By listening to them, we can use our IQ more effectively because we reason better when our feelings are taken into account. They give us valuable information we can’t get anywhere else.

Reference:

http://www.epanarpm.org/narpm2005/pdf/EmotionalIntelligence.pdf

Ever thought of your aim in life this way before…?  

That your AIM in life is all about:

    Awareness – Where you are at, right now?

         (They say awareness changes everything, and only when you become aware can you change anything…)

    Intention – Where do you intend to be?

         (Did you know the difference between “wanting” something and “intending” to get or do something…?)

    Motion – What fuel will you use to get there?

         (Why not use that emotion as fuel for the journey, to keep you going when you hit a sticky patch or a brick wall?) 

Ever thought deeply of this quote…  

“The soul is dyed the colour of its thoughts. Think only those things that are in line with your principles and bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny…it is the light that guides your way.”

              –Heraclitus 

Pretty interesting article by Deepak Lodhia… “What’s your AIM in life?”

http://www.trans4mind.com/counterpoint/lodhia.shtml

Enjoy!