You have a choice each day you live regarding the attitude you choose
the longer I live the more I realize the importance of choosing the right attitude in life
it is more important than your past
more important than your education or your financial situation
it's more important than your circumstances your successes or your failures
more important than what other people think or say or do
it is more important than your appearance your giftedness or your skills
it will make or break a company
it will make the difference between a happy home or a miserable home
you have a choice each day you live regarding the attitude you choose
you cannot change the years that have passed
you cannot change the daily tick of the clock
I'm convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent how
I respond to it the same is true for you our attitude is our thought life turned inside out
it's something that's in us but everybody sees it it comes out in facial expressions
comes out in body language it's the posture that we decide to take toward our life
your attitude is an inward feeling expressed by outward behavior
that's why your attitude shows without you saying a word what is an attitude it's the portrait of
your mind it's the advancement of your rear self it's roots are hidden but the fruit is
always visible it's our best friend or it's our worst enemy it draws people to us or repels people
from us it's never content until it's expressed it will determine your success or your failure
but our attitudes are the most important factor that determine our success and our potential here
in this life president Thomas Jefferson said nothing can stop the man with the right mental
attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with a wrong mental attitude if
you've got the right attitude nothing can stop you if you've got a wrong attitude nothing can
help you our attitudes determine our success and happiness more than any other factor in
our life how many of you have seen people with the right attitude do nearly impossible things
how many of you have seen people with the wrong attitude hardly do anything your attitude makes
all the difference every circumstance in your life today your attitude helps you decide whether it's
a blessing or a burden whether your challenge is inspiring you to believe God for more or it
overwhelms you and you're frustrated by your circumstance your attitude is what you use
to determine whether or not you're going to give God the praise and the thanks that he's worthy of
or you're going to complain to everybody you meet about what you're lacking in your life
studies show that your attitude can have a greater impact on your success than your IQ
you can be extremely talented have incredible potential but if you don't have the right attitude
it will keep you from rising higher you can't change other people you can't change how you
were raised a lot in life we can't control but one thing we can all control is our attitude attitude
is more important than aptitude and your success and happiness in life it's not your aptitude it's
not how smart you are it's not how talented you are you give me a less talented person any day
with a good attitude rather than a talented person with a bad attitude I can do more with that person
your attitude is paramount in your life I have a picture in my office at home it's a picture
of a ship on a very troubled sea and the reason I have that that picture there is it reminds me
of this saying a calm scene never produced a good sailor an easy life never produced a great person
it's not what I'm going through it's how I'm going through it you know I would much prefer to work
with somebody who has a good attitude and is not as skilled I'd much rather work with somebody like
that than to work with somebody that's highly skilled but has a stinky bad attitude amen
so it's really not our aptitude that gets us promoted in life
nearly as much as it is our attitude your choice of attitude is without question the
single most important choice you make every day A.W. Tozer wrote our attitude toward things
is likely to be in the long run more important than the things themselves
the general public is watching whether we like it or not and our attitude is what they remember
and unfortunately what they never forget far more than what we may preach or write or sing or say
and some of you have already begun a habit of negativism toward life
already developed a spirit of entitlement as if you've got this earned or you deserve certain
treatment we need to do a real revisiting of our attitudes put your foot down and say I refuse to
go through life with a bad attitude I am not going to let what happened to me who did me wrong what I
didn't get keep me from becoming all I was created to be God I know you being for me is more than the
world being against me that's what allows God to show out in your life too often we're holding on
to the hurts disappointments the things we don't understand that poisons our attitude steals our
passion you have to let it go this is a new day you see the aggressive response when you
don't choose a good attitude is to blame or to have self-pity both of them are pathetic
what an absolute waste I made a list blame never affirms an assaults
blame never restores it wounds blame never solves it complicates blame never unites it separates
blame never smiles it frowns blame never forgives it rejects blame never forgets it remembers
blame never builds it destroys some of you think you got all these problems
and you're blaming everything on your problems but it's not your problems it's your attitude
toward your problems that is the problem Victor Frankl was in the concentration camps and he said
you can take away every right that I have but there's one thing you cannot take away from me
and that's my attitude it's mine and if I want to have a good one nobody can make me have a bad one
the choice of attitude made all the difference in the life of Victor Frankel
they will not make me hate I will live in hope they will not make me bitter I will forgive
they will not make me mean spirited I will love
they cannot make me anything I do not choose for myself
your attitude is yours and nobody can force you to have a bad one if you don't want to
I'm gonna say that again your attitude is yours doesn't belong to somebody else
and nobody can make you have a bad attitude if you don't want to have a bad attitude nobody
amen how many of you actually really believe that
see maybe we don't think about it like that we think well you know I'm just like this because
I've got all these problems but being like that doesn't solve your problems it doesn't change your
problems what it does is it makes you miserable and probably most of the people around you
nobody enjoys being around somebody for very long that's got a bad attitude
you have a choice each day you live regarding the attitude you choose
how important it is that we let that attitude stay positive
you can change the way you live by changing the way you think I hope that comes in you can change
the way you live by changing the way that you think I clip this this is something that Charles
uh Swindoll Chuck Swindoll wrote it's it's one of the finest things he wrote in my estimation
he says this the longer I live the more I realize the impact of attitude on life attitude to me is
more important than facts it is more important than the past than education than money than
circumstances than failures than successes than what other people think or say or do it is more
important than appearance giftedness or skill it will make or break a company a church a home
the remarkable thing is that we have a choice every day regarding the attitude
we will embrace for that day we cannot change our past we cannot change the fact that people
will act in a certain way we cannot change the inevitable the only thing we can do is play on
the one thing we have and that is our attitude I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to
me and ninety percent how I react to it and so it is with you we are in charge of our attitudes