Monday, January 1, 2007

Day 2 - 7:00AM

Sprung out of bed this morning!

Saying for the day from Napoleon Hill's Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude:

"What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve."

And the difference between positive mental attitude (PMA) and negative mental attitude in the workplace:

"Just look about you. Notice those people who enjoy their work and those who don't. What's the difference between them? Happy, satisfied persons control their mental attitude. They take a positive view of their situation. They look for the good, and when something isn't so good, they look first to themselves to see if they can improve it. They try to learn more about their work so that they can become more proficient and make their work more satisfying to themselves and their employer.

"But those who are unhappy clutch to their NMA tightly. Indeed, it is almost as if they want to be unhappy. They look for everything about which they can complain: the hours are too long; lunch hours are too short; the boss is too crabby; the company doesn't give enough holidays or the right kind of bonuses. Or maybe they even complain about irrelevant things, such as: Susie wears the same dress every day; John the bookkeeper doesn't write legibly, and so on, and so on. Anything - just so they can be unhappy. And they succeed very well, too. They are decidedly unhappy people - on the job and generally elsewhere too. NMA possesses them entirely."
(Napoleon Hill & W. Clement Stone, Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude, pp. 156-157)

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