Thu, 21 Aug 2008

What is Your Altitude?
A blog that I recently started reading wrote an entry about attitude. They mentioned that the following quote was on a wall in the Middle School they attended.

"Life is 10% what happens to us, and 90% how we react to it."

That got me thinking about my own attitude. I remember one of my high school coaches reinforcing the following quote.

"Your attitude determines your altitude."

I don't think I really ever knew understood why he kept saying that phrase. After all, I can't fly so why should I be worried about my altitude. I eventually came to understand what that saying meant. Our attitude is what determines the paths that we take in our lives. Our attitude affects everything in our lives. Our attitude determine the ways of responding to people and situations. Our attitudes are then manifested through our behaviors. A positive attitude is what will carry us through the low altitudes, while a negative attitude will keep us in a low altitude.

In short, our attitude is what makes us who we are.

Once upon a time ago, I hired a fellow named Jon Tomlinson. Jon no longer works for me, but taught me a valuable lesson about attitude. He is one of those people that always sees the sun through the clouds. Nothing phased him. He always had a smile on his face and a great attitude to go along with it. Jon applied for a supervisor position. While his technical knowledge was lacking behind the other candidates, his attitude was far superior then the others. Jon wound up getting the position because of his attitude. His attitude is contagious. You couldn't help but feel better about anything after talking with Jon. He was always positive about the situation no matter what. Jon left you felling better about yourself, or whatever situation you found yourself in.His attitude definitely keeps his altitude above the clouds.

I need to do a better job of maintaining my altitude above the clouds.

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitude. Just like a great building stands on a strong foundation, so does success. And the foundation of success is attitude." 

         -- William James of Harvard University

:: Posted by brb on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:16 pm


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