“Our attitude tells the world what we expect in return.  If it’s a cheerful, expectant attitude, it says to everyone with whom we come in contact that we expect the best in our dealings with our world.”  ~ Earl Nightingale

Let me start with a question.  Out of a seven day week, how many of those days would you say that you wake up with a positive, “ready to take on the world” attitude?

I’m willing to predict that your answer is probably either 1 or 2 if you’re being honest…especially if you work outside the home 5 days a week.  To be really honest, I know some people who never wake up with a positive attitude so the answer for them is a big fat zero.

Have you ever considered the effect that waking up and starting your day like this, with a negative outlook, has on your entire life?  Would you say that it’s held you back a bit?  If you’re saying “no” then you’re lying to yourself.

Your attitude holds the key to your level of success in life, hands-down before anything else.

Nightingale goes on to state: “It is then our attitude toward life that determines life’s attitude toward us”.  What he means by this is really pretty simple…the attitude that you reflect outwards is reflected right back toward you.

Now this might just seem like some crazy “Secret” type motivational speech talk…but the fact is that until you take a good hard look at your attitude toward life, toward yourself, and toward all the people around you, your results in any endeavor are going to be and remain dismal.

On any one of those days that you’ve woken up “on the wrong side of bed” so to speak, with a less than desirable attitude… have you noticed that nothing else seemed to go your way on those days?  If you felt like the world was against you it’s because you were against the world, and it was just reflecting back what you were putting out.

Your attitude sets the tone for everything in YOUR life…for your, and only your reality.

You see, your reality is the only reality that you can ever be aware of at anytime.  Everything that you see and do comes through your perceptions, through your eyes, and your mind, and therefore what you see…and how you perceive anything at all, is totally unique to how anybody else sees it.

But the great thing is that with a change in attitude, you can actually change the way you see and perceive something.  Depending on your attitude you can change whether or not it becomes a negative or positive.  Some call this a paradigm shift.  You shift your paradigm of perception.

So now what does this have to do with your chances of success?

Well basically it goes like this.  Your quality of life – or lack of – is directly shaped by your attitude toward life.  You then are like the sculptor of your life, and your attitude is your number one sculpting tool.  This is because, since everything that you put out…attitude wise…is reflected back to you, then if you’re putting out a positive attitude that looks for the good in everything and everyone; that sees life as a winning game where there’s an abundance of prizes at the end; and as a life of vast opportunity then all of that will be reflected right back toward you.

It has to because that’s the perception and the reality that you’re creating for yourself.

Your attitude will shape your future…and frankly it’s one of the few things in this world that you actually have control over, so why not take control and mold it into exactly what you want it to be?