Attitudes are contagious and influence our behaviors, relationships, and work. A positive attitude creates enthusiasm, inspires creativity, and attracts others, while a negative attitude increases stress and makes problems seem worse. Our attitudes come from our own thoughts, feelings, and actions, so we can choose to respond positively or negatively to challenges. Changing negative self-talk and focusing on learning from mistakes can help improve our attitudes.

1. Attitudes are Contagious!

2. Benefits of a Positive Attitude
• Creates enthusiasm
• Enhances creativity
• Inspires others to reach out
• Contributes to effective team work
• Attracts people
• Increases relationships

3. Benefits of a Positive Attitude
• Opens the way for good things to happen
• Leads to recognition for positive contributions
• Helps Keep perspective
• Increases happiness
• Allows problem solving to occur
• Reduces stress

4. What is Attitude?
• A position or posture assumed by the body in
connection with an action, feeling, mood, etc.
• A manner of acting, feeling or thinking that shows
one’s disposition, opinion, mental set, etc.

5. What Makes Up an Attitude?
Where Does it Come From?
• Attitude comes from within us.
• We determine our own attitude.
• We choose to respond in a negative or positive way to
the challenges we face every day.

6. The Attitude Threesome-
Life Acts, We react
• What we think
• What we feel
• What we do
If we want to change our attitude,
where do we start?

7. EXPERIENCE
Situation
COGNITIVE
What we think
EMOTION
What we feel
BEHAVIOR
What we do

8. You Are What You Think
• Responsibility for your own thinking
• Recognizing self-talk – That inner observer
• What does it say at the start of your day?

9. Worry Can Make a Small Issue Big
• Self-talk can make any issue worse
• Imagination goes amuck
• Bigger issue exists only in your mind – you have
created it
• Response will be out of proportion to the original
concern – too intense
• May lead to other concerns

10. Mistakes Are the
First Steps in Learning
• Society’s rule “Mistakes are bad”
• Affects whatever project you are working on
• Blaming – “Look at this! It’s all wrong!”
• Role of response and inner criticism
• Rethinking the rule

11. To Change Your Attitude,
Change Your Mind
• Pay attention
• Stop blaming
• Rewrite your script

12. Positive Thinking
(Outside the Box)

13. Remember the Law of Attraction:
Whatever we focus on we attract.

14. Negativity From Others - What to Do
Minimizing the Effect on Your Attitude
• What company do you keep?
• What are your options?

15. Problem-Solving Steps
for Attitude Adjustment
• No more excuses
• Decide to change
• Find the source
• Fix it
• Observe your progress
Goal Reached - Resiliency