{"id":945,"date":"2016-11-29T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ubagroup.com\/57-marina\/2016\/11\/29\/does-attitude-really-determine-altitude\/"},"modified":"2020-09-03T18:56:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T18:56:39","slug":"does-attitude-really-determine-altitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ubagroup.com\/57-marina\/does-attitude-really-determine-altitude\/","title":{"rendered":"DOES ATTITUDE REALLY DETERMINE ALTITUDE?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left\">\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ubagroup.com\/57-marina\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/11\/shutterstock_249142768-1024x662.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"attitude\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubagroup.com\/57-marina\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/11\/shutterstock_249142768-1024x662.jpg\" alt=\"attitude altitude\" width=\"400\" height=\"258\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;margin-bottom: 0in;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'century gothic' , 'sans-serif';font-size: 14.0pt\">Keith Harrell\u2019s book screams, <b><i>Attitude<br \/>\nis Everything: <\/i><\/b><\/span><b><i><span style=\"font-family: 'century gothic' , 'sans-serif';font-size: 14.0pt\">10 Life-Changing Steps to<br \/>\nTurning Attitude into Action. <\/span><\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-family: 'century gothic' , 'sans-serif';font-size: 14.0pt\">\u00a0Jeff Keller not to be outdone goes a step<br \/>\nfurther and shouts, <\/span><b><i><span style=\"font-family: 'century gothic' , 'sans-serif';font-size: 14.0pt\">Attitude is Everything:<br \/>\nChange your Attitude, Change your Life<\/span><\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-family: 'century gothic' , 'sans-serif';font-size: 14.0pt\">.<br \/>\nTwo of the fathers of modern motivational literature, Napoleon Hill, and W.<br \/>\nClement Stone, had in 1960 written what many consider the definitive treatise<br \/>\non attitude when <b><i>Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude<\/i><\/b> was published.<br \/>\nThough it did not have the word attitude in its title, Dale Carnegie\u2019s <b><i>How<br \/>\nto Win Friends and Influence People<\/i><\/b> was on positive attitude and was<br \/>\nfirst published in 1937. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;margin-bottom: 0in;text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;margin-bottom: 0in;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'century gothic' , 'sans-serif';font-size: 14.0pt\">The Self Help industry according to The Guardian,<br \/>\nis a $11bn strong in the US alone, with books in this space such as Chicken<br \/>\nSoup for the Soul series selling over a billion copies. The book <b><i>The<br \/>\nSecret<\/i><\/b>, by Rhonda Byrne, published in 2006, and the follow up film<br \/>\nstarring Bob Proctor, made waves the whole world and was translated into 46<br \/>\nlanguages. The book has sold more than 19 million copies worldwide. The book is<br \/>\nbased on one of the several tendencies in the self help industry called the <i>law of attraction<\/i>. According to this<br \/>\nlaw, what you think about, you attract. If you think positive thoughts, you<br \/>\nattract positive things. The reverse, according to the author, is also true.<br \/>\nViola, change your thinking, change your life.<br \/>\nJohn C. Maxwell, Wayne Dyer,<br \/>\nDaniel G. Amen, Brian Tracy, and Marilee Adams are some of the more well known<br \/>\nauthors that have books on how thinking positive help change our lives.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;margin-bottom: 0in;text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;margin-bottom: 0in;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'century gothic' , 'sans-serif';font-size: 14.0pt\">So back to our question: does attitude really<br \/>\ndetermine altitude? For the non cognoscenti, altitude refers to the level of your<br \/>\nmonetary success, the height of your achievement glory, the stupendousness of<br \/>\nyour wealth. A deep look at some of the most successful people on the planet,<br \/>\nwhether in politics, sports, academia, business, and entertainment, to mention<br \/>\na few, however, shows no causal relationship between attitude and success, however<br \/>\ndefined. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Muhammad Ali, Arnold<br \/>\nSchwarzenegger, Michael Jordan, Nelson Mandela, Steve Jobs, Williams<br \/>\nShakespeare, Bill Gates, Ben Carson, and Oprah Winfrey, Tony Elumelu, Aliko<br \/>\nDangote, and Richard Branson, to mention a few, are some of the most successful<br \/>\nindividuals on record. How did each and every one of these individuals achieve<br \/>\nstupendous <i>success<\/i>? \u00a0One word: through <i>grit<\/i>.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;margin-bottom: 0in;text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;margin-bottom: 0in;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'century gothic' , 'sans-serif';font-size: 14.0pt\">By success, I don\u2019t just mean financial wealth,<br \/>\nbecause Nelson Mandela, one of the most successful leaders that ever lived was<br \/>\nnot a multi millionaire. So the one and only ingredient that separates<br \/>\nsuccessful people from others is grit, by which I mean hard work, burning the<br \/>\nmid night oil, iron determination, standing for something, sacrifice. Malcolm<br \/>\nGladwell tells us to succeed in any endeavour, \u00a0\u00a0you need 10,000 man hours of continued<br \/>\npractice, that is, about 10 years in the trenches. Ten years of learning, ten<br \/>\nyears of focus, ten years of faith, ten years of passion, ten years of<br \/>\nsacrifice are what you need to reach the proverbial tipping point.\u00a0 <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;margin-bottom: 0in;text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;margin-bottom: 0in;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: 'century gothic' , 'sans-serif';font-size: 14.0pt\">Attitude is a state of mind, of always expecting<br \/>\nthe best no matter what the world throws on your path. But attitude (the<br \/>\nsoftware) without hard work (the hard ware) will not put bread on your table,<br \/>\neven if you are a comedian. As a comedian, you have to continually come up with<br \/>\nfresh rib crackers otherwise you will become stale, and that calls for extreme<br \/>\nhard work.\u00a0 John H. Johnson of the Ebony<br \/>\nMagazine empire fame said \u201cthere is no defense against excellence\u201d, and the<br \/>\nboxing maverick, Don King, once said, \u201cIf you set yourself on fire, the world<br \/>\nwill come and watch you burn.\u201d\u00a0 Don King<br \/>\nwas talking about passion, zeal, determination, to go out and make something<br \/>\nout of yourself, not waiting for a dole out, social security or manna from<br \/>\nheaven. Are you ready for success? Then wake up, put on your running shoes,<br \/>\nfold your shirt sleeves, put your hand to the plough and never look back and<br \/>\nthe gods of success will show up. Only hard work will see you to the Promised<br \/>\nLand because the maker of all the universe Himself decreed that he who does not<br \/>\nwork does not eat. Attitude alone my friend is not enough. You need a ton of<br \/>\ngrit to stand on.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-bottom: 0in;text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;margin-bottom: 0in\"><span style=\"font-family: 'century gothic' , 'sans-serif';font-size: 14.0pt\">By Paul<br \/>\nUduk is the Author of \u201cThe Celebrity Speaker: Speak Like The Orators of Old,<br \/>\nImpact the World and Grow Rich\u201d, and \u201cBridges to the Customer\u2019s Heart\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%;margin-bottom: 0in\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Harrell\u2019s book screams, Attitude is Everything: 10 Life-Changing Steps to Turning Attitude into Action. \u00a0Jeff Keller not to be outdone goes a step further and shouts, Attitude is Everything: Change your Attitude, Change your Life. 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