10 attitudes (secular)

Good article from Keith Harrell. "Why Your Attitude is Everything. One of the most important steps you can take toward achieving your greatest potential in life is to learn to monitor your attitude and its impact on your work performance, relationships and everyone around you."

Here are his 10 tips to develop a good attitude:

1. Self-Coaching Through Affirmations "Affirmations repeated several times each day, every day, serve to reprogram your subconscious with positive thinking. An affirmation is made up of words charged with power, conviction and faith. You send a positive response to your subconscious, which accepts what you tell it. When done properly, this triggers positive feelings that, in turn, drive action."

2. Self-Motivation Through Discovering Your Motives "Discover what motivates you—what incites you to take action to change your life. Basic motives include love, self-preservation, anger, financial gain and fear. Self-motivation requires enthusiasm, a positive outlook, a positive physiology (walk faster, smile, sit up), and a belief in yourself and your God-given potential."

3. The Power of Visualization Use visualizations either consciously or subconsciously to enhance and focus skills. 

4. Attitude Talk for Positive Internal Dialogue "Attitude talk is a way to override your past negative programming by erasing or replacing it with a conscious, positive internal voice that helps you face new directions. Your internal conversation—that little voice you listen to all day long—acts like a seed in that it programs your brain and affects your behavior. Take a closer look at what you are saying to yourself."

5. The Power of Words—WOW "Once released to the universe, our words cannot be taken back. Learn the concept of WOW—watch our words. What we speak reflects what is already in our hearts based upon all the things we have come to believe about ourselves. If we find ourselves speaking judgmental and disparaging things about our circumstances or those around us, we know the condition of our hearts needs to change. You can create a direct path to success by what you say."

6. The Power in a Positive Greeting Most people enjoy being with others who try to live life as a beautiful gift.

7. Enthusiasm: Vital Tool for Staying Motivated "Enthusiasm ... speaks through your actions from your commitment and your belief in what you are doing. It is one of the most empowering and attractive characteristics you can have."

8. Connecting to Your Spiritual Empowerment We need to feed our spirit because we are spiritual beings. 

9. Lighten Up Your Life with Humor "The more humor and laughter in your life, the less stress you’ll have, which means more positive energy to help you put your attitude into action."

10. Exercising Will Help Keep You Motivated

"Your mind is a computer that can be programmed. You can choose whether the software installed is productive or unproductive. Your inner dialogue is the software that programs your attitude, which determines how you present yourself to the world around you. You have control over the programming. Whatever you put into it is reflected in what comes out."