Positive Attitude is the right path of our life

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Positive Attitude is the right path of our life

 

The seers who wrote the Upanishads have this excellent answer: " Life is

a bridge; enjoy while crossing it; but don't build a castle on it."

The creator of human life gave the positive mental attitude as a gift to

the new born child. This gift has helped the child to accept everything

from everybody. We better remember and learn from the child to accept

life, the gift of God. Let us also remember not to teach our bad habits

to the children! With positive mental attitude, we can accept the

realities of life without resistance and fear. We become the witness

of our own life and can probably accept joy, sorrow, good, bad, tall,

short, beauty, ugly, light, dark, past, present and future. We can stop

asking instantaneous explanations for everything. The root cause of all

our questions is our ego and it seeds doubts in our mind. Consequently,

we do not want to accept the world as it is and we crave for the world

to change!

 

Positive mental attitude will help us to change our life without forcing

others to change. Realities can be sometimes painful, but we can always

avoid unnecessary sufferings! Every religion wants to help people to

remove negative tendencies. Religions do play an important role to cope

up with uncertainties and unforeseen events in everyone's life. Modern

management techniques do stress the importance of positive mental

attitude and managers get training accordingly. Positive mental

attitude was responsible for the success of leaders in science,

politics, religion, industry, and sport. The Upanishads classify the

human mind into pure and impure. Persons who sustain pure mind can

maintain positive mental attitude. Ego, hatred and jealousy germinate

when the mind gets corrupted. The person who hates suffers more than

the hated entity! Positive mental attitude is obviously a win-win

choice for everyone. The following article will illustrate the benefits

of keeping a positive mental attitude. I hope that this article will

help us to take control of events and prevent the events to take control

of our life!

 

Ram Chandran

 

Positive Attitude Is Everything ( One of my friends has sent this

article and I don't know the author's name)

 

Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good

mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask

him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be

twins!" He was a unique manager because he had several waiters who

had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the

waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural

motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was there telling

the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation. Seeing

this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and

asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all of the

time. How do you do it?" Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say

to myself, Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a

good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood.' I choose to be in a

good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim

or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time

someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their

complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the

positive side of life." "Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I

protested. "Yes it is," Jerry said. "Life is all about choices. When

you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how

you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood.

You choose to be in a good or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your

choice how you live life." I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon

thereafter, I left the restaurant industry to start my own business.

We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about

life instead of reacting to it.

 

Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never

supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the back door open

one morning and was held up at gunpoint by three armed robbers. While

trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped

off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry

was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma center.

After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was

released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his

body. I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked

him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins. Wanna

see my scars?" I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had

gone through his mind as the robbery took place. "The first thing

that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door,"

Jerry replied. "Then, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had

two choices: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I chose

to live." "Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I

asked. Jerry continued, "The paramedics were great. They kept telling

me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency

room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses,

I got really scared. In their eyes, I read, 'He's a dead man.' I

knew then I needed to take action." "What did you do?" I asked.

"Well, there was a big, burly nurse shouting questions at me," said

Jerry. "She asked if I was allergic to anything. 'Yes,' I replied. The

doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took

a deep breath and yelled, 'Bullets!' Over their laughter, I told them,

'I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead."

Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his

amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice

to live fully. Positive Mental Attitude, after all, is everything.

 

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