“Create or attract through focused desire the things you wish for in life.” ~Stephen Redhead.
A positive attitude is the difference between winning and losing, that’s not a secret, successful sportsmen and Women have been using that approach for generations. It works for sports but it works that way in your every day life too. I’m not going to use an everyday example as you know those already. I’m going to use the Maasai tribesmen as an example.
Every year the young men of the tribe go on a Lion hunt as a right of passage, they begin by building up their courage through chanting and dancing before setting out to hunt. They locate a Lion and corner him using the terrain. when the Lion is cornered, the young Maasai warriors surround the Lion to attack him, if the Lion breaks through the barrier of warriors, the warrior who is pushed aside by the Lion believes he is the weakest of the warriors and that is why the Lion chose him as his escape route. This, they believe brings great embarrassment to him and his family.
The warrior the Lion pushed aside may have been the strongest of his generation but he may not have had the right attitude, he could have been thinking, don’t attack me instead of I’m going to attack you. The difference in his attitude would have been exposed through his posture, the slight leaning back instead of pushing forward. The Lion who is the greatest expert on body language of prey would have noticed this and then chose him as the weakest link.
Now, we in the western world don’t go chasing after Lions but we do chase other things we desire, such as the perfect partner, the perfect job, the perfect life. If we have doubts about whether we can get those things, it shows up in our body language. We look at some people and wonder, how on earth did they get that? The thing is, they didn’t have a negative attitude, they believed they deserved it and it was delivered to them. It’s the power of being positive in action.
“A positive mental attitude will achieve positive results every time, but you have to work on your positive attitude every day.”
