Kristiina Teerikorpi
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Localisation : Moraga, California, U.S.A.
Registration date : 2006-12-20
 | | Subject: ATTITUDE Tue Feb 17 2009, 18:04 | |
|  An attitude is a hypothetical construct that represents an individual's degree of like or dislike for an item. Attitudes are generally positive or negative views of a person, place, thing, or event-- this is often referred to as the attitude object. People can also be conflicted or ambivalent toward an object, meaning that they simultaneously possess both positive and negative attitudes toward the item in question.
Attitudes are judgments. They develop on the ABC model (affect, behavior, and cognition). The affective response is an emotional response that expresses an individual's degree of preference for an entity. The behavioral intention is a verbal indication or typical behavioral tendency of an individual. The cognitive response is a cognitive evaluation of the entity that constitutes an individual's beliefs about the object. Most attitudes are the result of either direct experience or observational learning from the environment.
Attitudes are the established ways of responding to people and situations that we have learned, based on the beliefs, values and assumptions we hold. Attitudes become manifest through your behavior.
Attitudes drive behavior. Your body language is a result of your mental attitude. By choosing your attitude you get in that mood and send out a message that everyone understands, consciously or unconsciously.
"Almost always, you have a choice as to what attitude to adopt. There is nothing in any normal work situation that dictates you must react one way or another. If you feel angry about something that happens, for instance, that's how you choose to feel. Nothing in the event itself makes it absolutely necessary for you to feel that way. It is your choice. And since you do have a choice, most of the time you'll be better off if you choose to react in a positive rather than a negative way.
"People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within." – Ramona L. Anderson
It is not what happens to you that counts. It is how you react to what happens to you, especially when you have unexpected problems of any kind.
If you want to live a longer, healthier life then you need to develop and maintain a positive attitude.
The people who maintained a positive attitude are less likely to show signs of aging, they are less likely to become frail and were more likely to be stronger and healthier than those that has a negative attitude. If you have a doom and gloom attitude you're actually killing yourself and at the very least – you're negative attitude is just making you weaker.
Researchers found that a positive thinking and attitude improved a persons health because it made it more likely that they would succeed in life. So not only will a positive attitude help you be healthy and live longer – but it also increases the likelihood that you will succeed.
You must believe that your dreams can become reality and, through your attitude, get people to see exciting opportunities and possibilities for the future.
Attitude motivation is about how people think and feel. "It is their self-confidence, their belief in themselves, their attitude to life – be it positive or negative. It is how they feel about the future and how they react to the past."
Your attitude is the first thing people pick up on in face-to-face communication. Just as laughing, yawning, and crying are infectious, attitude is infectious. Before you say a word, your attitudes can infect the people who see you with the same behavior. Somehow just by looking or feeling, you can be infected by another person's attitude, and vice versa. When you are operating from inside a really useful attitude, such as enthusiasm, curiosity, and humility, your body language tends to take care of itself and sends out unmistakable signals of openness.
Do what you love to do. Find your true passion. Do what you love to do a make a difference! The only way to do great work is to love what you do...
"Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. "
~Francesca Reigler
"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine."
~Anthony J. D'Angelo
"You must start with a positive attitude or you will surely end without one."
~Carrie Latet
"Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life."
~Annette Goodheart
 Kristiina "Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching?" ~Dennis and Wendy Mannering | |
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showsilk
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Age : 32
Localisation : Norway
Registration date : 2007-09-04
| | Subject: Re: ATTITUDE Tue Feb 17 2009, 21:20 | |
| I really enjoy reading all from you!  | |
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