Attitude Makes The Difference

Dear lovely people,

From my hotel window in Kigali, Rwanda one 2014 morning, I watched a bike rider slip off falling terribly onto a roadside flowerbed. He laid there for some minutes and nobody was coming to his help, he looked up and around and realizing there was nobody coming or paying attention to him, he got up, pickup his bike, examined it over, dusted himself and road off.

Attitude makes the difference I tell you and much more, a positive attitude is a matter of choice. You can choose today to be happy or remain gloomy; you can choose to go out today and start making it or to remain a complainer. You can choose to go out there and earn clean money or to risk your life playing dirty tricks with strange men or women and end up being swallowed by snakes as myths hold in Cameroon.

The rains will certainly spoil your day, the people you count on will fail you, those you love will break your heart, the crops you’ve grown might not produce, the economy might not improve… Yes! And very true but you have the choice to take all these challenges as positive steps towards your goal or to be defeated by them. For example, if the rains spoil your most cherished and planned picnic and you get angry, my question becomes: is the problem with you getting angry with the rain – an external force you cannot control or the problem is with you taking the spoiled picnic with hate? You see what I mean.

The bike man made a choice. He had the choice to either remain lying on the ground crying of pains and waiting for somebody to come to his help or to get up and keep on. He decided to get up and to keep on. He saw through the challenge to his day’s program and decided it will not stop him. For sure trial moments will come your way. You will be beaten down over and over as you try to make progress but you have to fully understand that the difference between winners and losers is that: Winners get up each time they fall and continue in a batter way while losers accept the defeat and remain in their agony. While winners conquer new grounds, losers live with the memories of past glories.

I invite you to adopt a Positive Mental Attitude today and see the difference it will make in your life. For sure, attitude makes the difference.