Your Attitude Determines Your Future
How we react, the action we take, and, more importantly our attitude determines our future. There are times in all of our lives where our self-confidence wanes which can then lead to a negative outlook on life.Short Stories
Your Attitude Determines Your Future
by Catherine Pulsifer
This past week was one of those weeks for me. I questioned the work I was doing, both on the web sites and on our crafts. I found myself wondering if all my time and effort was worthwhile. Would our new business provide the income we needed? Is my work good enough for others to want to buy or to read? These are only a few of the questions that ran through my mind. And, with every question, my self-confidence was sliding downward! As my doubts swirled in my mind, I could feel my attitude changing. I was thinking is it really worth the effort?
Realizing that these negative thoughts were affecting my attitude and my self-confidence, I went to the website to read quotes on self-confidence only to find I did not have a category for "self-confidence". I then did a search on the wow4u website and found that I had wonderful quotes on self-confidence. I also went through my files and found more great quotes. So I ended up establishing a category on self-confidence.
As I worked on the web page, my self-confidence was being restored. I could feel my outlook changing, almost like I gave myself an attitude adjustment. Many times in my life I have found quotes have actually changed my outlook, and, without fail, it was happening again. The quotes I was reading reassured me, and provided me with the motivation to realize that what I was doing was in fact what I loved to do. Like everything else in life, it takes time; success does not happen overnight. My mindset was changing to one of a positive attitude.
As I was reading a quote from Rosalyn Carter, I realized I do have confidence in my ability. What I was lacking was the persistence and determination to follow it through!
"If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through."
Rosalyn Carter
Reflecting on my previous career, it took me 20 years to realize success. I laughed at myself for thinking this new career would be a success in one year. If I have realized anything from working on the wow4u website, and from the experiences of my previous career, it is that success takes time, persistence, determination, and most importantly, believing in yourself!
One of the techniques to discover what it would take to alter your own life to acquire whatever success you want is to read extensively about the wisdom through the words of those who have experienced great failures but went on to achieve success. There are many authors and biographies from around the world that you can find. Some of these works are modern day and some are from previous eras. But, it doesn’t really matter when or where or whom the true success stories are about, the messages are clear and to the point.
From all of these wonderful words of wisdom, you will see just what it took to overcome obstacles and to beat the odds especially when, in many cases, other important people said that they would be a failure and were stupid to try and succeed. If this were the case, we wouldn’t have seen a man on the moon or an orbital space station. In fact, we wouldn’t see many medical breakthroughs throughout the world. Scientists are known to quit trying and it is their perseverance against all known odds that successful medicines have been developed.
There are those success stories as far away as you can imagine and there are those fantastic and inspirational accounts that you will read close to home. Sometimes, it is a person who you might just bump into everyday without really knowing that you are rubbing shoulders with a success story. These are the people who have quietly gone forward without fanfare or public recognition but have succeeded where others have failed.
If you want to find and personally talk to a few people who have their own special success story to tell, I would also suggest that you join several community groups where there are volunteers from all walks of life. You will find business people who beat the odds and established profitable businesses on a show string; you will find lawyers who struggled to pay their bills as they went through school but are now successful in their practices; you will find leaders in all areas of expertise. These are the people who can provide guidance if you ask them.