1. Making Your Attitude Your Greatest Asset
The Difference Maker
Making Your Attitude
Your Greatest Asset

2. The information for this presentation comes from the book:
“The Difference Maker” written by John C. Maxwell.

3. What is Attitude ?

4. It is your best friend or worst enemy
It is what draws people to you or repels them
It is never content until it is expressed
It is the librarian of your past
It is the speaker of your present
It is the prophet of your future

5. It is the vanguard of your true self
Its root is inward but its fruit is outward
It is more honest and consistent about you than your words
It is your outward look based on your past experiences

6. Where did I get My Attitude?
Personality- impacts attitude does not trap it.
Environment-What’s around you?
Expression of others-positive or negative words
How you see yourself-Do you limit yourself?
Exposure to growth opportunities-go out of your comfort zone
Peer relationships
Beliefs-What you think
Choices-What you do-As time goes by, choices increase

7. What Your Attitude
Can Not
Do For You

8. You Can Not
Separate Attitude
From Reality and
Expect Success

9. Where Your
Attitude Cannot
Make a Difference

10. Your Attitude Cannot Substitute for Competence-If you think you can do something, that’s confidence. If you can do it, that’s competence. Both are needed for success.
Your Attitude Cannot Substitute for Experience- The problem with experience is that you rarely have it until after you need it. You have to start somewhere.

11. Your Attitude Cannot Change the Facts
Your Attitude Cannot Substitute for Personal Growth
Your Attitude will not stay good automatically

12. What Your Attitude
Can
Do for you

13. Your Attitude Makes a Difference in Your Approach to Life
Your Attitude Makes a Difference in Your Relationships with People
Your Attitude Makes a Difference in How You Face Challenges
Your Attitude is the Difference Maker

14. How to Make Your Attitude Your Greatest Asset

15. Take Responsibility for Your Attitude
Evaluate Your Present Attitude
a) Identity problem feelings about yourself
b) Identify problem feelings related to others
c) Identify problem thinking

16. Develop the Desire to Change
Change your Attitude by Changing Your Thoughts
Develop good habits
Manage your attitude daily
Speak positive words

17. Part 2

18. The big Five
Attitude
Obstacles

19. Discouragement

20. 1) Get the Right Perspective
a) Take a look at the whole picture
b) Take a short look at the problem
c) Take a close look at yourself
d) Take a long look at successful people
e) Take a wide look at the possibilities

21. 2) See the Right People 3) Say the Right Words
4) Have the Right Expectations
5) Make the Right Decisions

22. Change

23. Why do People Resist Change?
People Resist change Because of Personal Loss.
People Resist Change Because of Fear of the Unknown.
People Resist Change Because the Timing Could be Wrong

24. 4) People Resist Change Because it Feels Awkward.
5)People Resist Change Because of Tradition.

25. Points for Successful Change
Change will Happen Whether you like it or Not.
Without Change There Can Be No Improvement.
Make a Commitment To Pay the Price for Change.
Change Must Happen Within You Before It Can Happen Around You

26. Decide What You Are Not Willing To Change
Remember, It’s Never Too Late to Change

27. Problems

28. A Perspective on Problems
Problems are everywhere and everybody has some.
Our perspective on the Problem, Not the Problem Itself, Usually Determines Our Success or Failure.
There is a Difference Between Problem Spotting and Problem Solving.

29. 4) The Size of the Person Is More Important than the Size of the Problem.
5)Problems, Responded to Correctly, Can Actually Advance us Forward.

30. A Problem is something you can do something about
A Problem is something you can do something about. If you can’t do something about it, then it’s not a problem. It’s a predicament.

31. Principles for Handling Problems
Define What a Real Problem Is
Anticipate Problems
Face the Problem
Evaluate the Problem
Embrace each Problem as a Potential Opportunity
Think of People Who Have Bigger Problems
List all the Potential Way to Solve the Problem
Determine the best Three Ways to Solve the Problem
Refocus on the Mission

32. Fear

33. Fear is Part of the Human condition
The Destructive Effects of Fear
1-Fear Breeds More Fear
2-Fear causes inaction
3-Fear Weakens Us
4-Fear Wastes Energy
5-Fear Keeps Us and Others from Reaching our Potential

34. How to Handle Your Fears
Admit Your Fears
Discover the Source of Your Fears
Realize How Your Fears Can Limit Your
Accept Normal Fear as the Price of Progress
Convert Fear into Desire
Focus on Things You Can Control
Give Today Your Attention-Not Yesterday or Tomorrow
Feed the Right Emotion and Starve the Wrong One

35. Failure

36. Self-Sabotaging Behaviors
Expecting Failure
Personalizing Failure
Refusing to take a risk
Letting Failure Defeat You

37. How to Profit from Failure
Change Your Attitude
Change Your Vocabulary
Pay Little Attention to the Odds
Let Failure Point You to Success
Hold on to Your Sense of Humor
Learn From Your Mistakes
Don’t Lose Your Perspective
Don’t become to Familiar with Failure
Make Failure a Gauge for Growth
Never Give Up