Harnessing the Power of a Positive
Attitude
By: Tammie Clarke Gibbs
I’ve been told I should have been a
motivational speaker. I reply by saying, “I am” because I try to motivate
every time I open my mouth or touch the keyboard with my fingertips. I’ve
been blessed, I guess with a gift that allows me to look past the shallow and
sometimes demanding nature of others and see through to the positive and gifted
person within. I know. We are surrounded by negativity. Open any
newspaper, magazine or online venue and you are bombarded by negative
expressions. It can be very depressing, and it can be very difficult to
rise above the attitude of others. It’s necessary.
Today is a new day. This hour is a
new hour. This minute is a new minute. We are surrounded by newness that we
overlook with frequency. When we wake up in the morning, we should value
the sunrise for what it is “an amazing new opportunity for change.”
The only way that we can achieve
anything is to resolve that we want to. Goal setting is important because it
gives us a framework to hang all our hopes and dreams and a way to measure our
progress. Whether you’re a reader or an author, it doesn’t matter we all have a
basic need for accomplishment, whether it’s a business or personal goal.
There are a few things that no one
controls but us. The major one is attitude. Our attitude is an extremely
personal thing yet it has the power to influence others and essentially cause a
domino effect. How is your attitude affecting your ability to reach your
goals? If a negative attitude could help you achieve even one of your
goals I’d say go on be negative, but it won’t it will only have the opposite
effect. A positive attitude alone may not.
How do you change an attitude and
regain that optimism you once had? Well, take a lesson from childhood and
rediscover the art of DAYDREAMING. Find a quiet place for some alone
time. It could be in your room on your bed, beside a pool or on a pallet
in the woods. Close your eyes and let your mind wander to places that only it
can. Allow the real world to melt away and call upon your inner child because
the child within was never afraid to dream and began life full of
optimism. If you find it difficult the first time, don’t give up because
it’s taken years to develop the attitude you’re wearing. If you’re willing to
change, to recapture the part of you that feeds your self-confidence you
can.
DAYDREAM and learn to use your
imagination again because all the biggest contributions to mankind were first
an idea as small as a grain of sand in someone’s imagination.
If you’re not achieving what you
want to, and you’re not happy with your life the way it is, you owe it to
yourself to try anything that will spark that renewed energy to face the world
again with fresh eyes, a new attitude and effect it in a positive way.
The world around us cannot change
until we change. We can only change the world as one-person changes and
then another and then another.
Without a dream, nothing is
accomplished, but without some work dreams cannot be accomplished. So,
how does one tackle the obstacles between their real-life situation and the
goals their imagination has set for them? By treating them as if they are
something we can achieve.
Here are a few tips:
1. Write your goals down.
2. Research what you will have to do
in order to reach your goals.
3. Then, divide those tasks up and
determine the path to take to achieve each of the minor objectives.
4. Start at the beginning.
Many goals are not reached because of poor planning and a lack of focus.
We all love a short cut but in most cases taking a short cut may prevent you
from reaching an otherwise obtainable goal.
The most important suggestion I can
make to you whatever your goals may be is to “do something.” Don’t just
allow your dreams to fade away. Today is the day to reach for the stars.
Tammie Clarke Gibbs has over twenty
years in marketing and graphic arts. She has two novels and several non-fiction
titles that are published and was a nominee for the 2001 Georgia Author of the
Year Awards. In addition, she spends time helping her fellow authors to
achieve their goals through assistance with everything from marketing plans to
cover art. The first book in her new 8-Hours Series for authors hit three
Amazon Bestseller’s lists on the first day of publication and is receiving rave
reviews for it’s easy to follow, step-by-step advice.
Here’s a little blurb from Book
One: 8 Hours to Jump Start Your Career: A Step-by-Step Guide for
Self-Published Authors
Forget about spending 8
Hours a day on promoting your book. For less than a value meal you’ll learn how
to take just 8 hours and invest them in actionable tasks that will pay
dividends into the future. Don’t you owe it to yourself to reclaim your life?
Authors are sick and tired of spending every minute of the day promoting themselves and their books. It doesn’t have to be that way. 8 Hours to Jump Start Your Career: A Step-by-Step Guide for Self-Published Authors shows you how to invest just 8 hours into actionable tasks that will pay dividends into the future freeing you up to do other things. These are not tasks thought up overnight they are the results of over 2 years of research and personal experimentation. I cannot guarantee that it will make you a Bestseller, but many who’ve followed the tasks outlined in the book can now boast that Bestseller status. Spend it with family, go on vacation, or write your next book it’s all up to you. What will you do with all that time you’re going to have?
Contact Tammie via:
@tammiegibbs
http://www.tammieclarkegibbs.com
(links to blogs, Facebook etc. can be found via the website)
To View the Cover Art she’s done for
fellow authors visit her Facebook Gallery
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