- Asaad Abdullah Al-Abbad
- 15/10/1424
- 09/12/2003
Series: Management Development Series
Book: Your Positive Attitude Is Your Most Valuable Thing
Author: Elwood N. Chapman
Number of Pages: 122
Publisher: Dar Al-Ma’rifa for Human Development
Book idea
We are faced with situations in which we are involved, and we feel that we did not act appropriately in these situations. We even feel blamed sometimes for our ineffectiveness in some situations, and we feel frustrated and dissatisfied with our behavior in some situations. This book will provide you, God willing, with the skills, concepts, and methods necessary for you to control yourself, act appropriately, and build good relationships with yourself and others in a positive manner.
Chapter One: Understanding and Analyzing the Situation
Chapter One
Defining the concept of positive attitude
Attitude refers to how you mentally view the world. When you are optimistic, this will be reflected in yourself and others, while when you are pessimistic, the opposite is true.
When we look at things, our mind focuses on one thing, much like a camera. If you focus on the negative aspects of your life, you will likely adopt a negative attitude. If you focus on the positive aspects and good news, you will likely adopt positive attitudes in your life.
What is a positive attitude? It is the outward expression of a mental state that focuses primarily on positive things.
The Effect of a Positive Attitude
1. It gives a person the courage to face problems and make decisions.
2. It creates a mental state that focuses on creativity and innovation.
3. It provides its owner with the ability to adjust and adapt to negative situations.
4. It provides psychological and health stability.
5. You have great ambitions that you strive to achieve.
Chapter Two
The relationship between personality and positive attitude
Personality is defined as the unique combination of physical and mental traits of a person.
It is worth noting that an individual’s personality exists in the minds of others.
What is the role of a positive attitude in building personality?
A positive attitude is a powerful reinforcer in building personality, while simultaneously counteracting negative attitudes.
Therefore, we find that a positive attitude:
1. Transforms a boring personality into an exciting one.
2. Makes a person more attractive.
3. Draws the attention of others to a person’s superior qualities.
4. With continued positive attitudes, a person acquires a brighter and more attractive image in the eyes of others.
5. Possessing a charismatic and attractive personality.
Characteristics of a positive attitude
– It stimulates enthusiasm.
– It stimulates creativity.
– Optimism leads to goodness.
Chapter Three
The attractive power of a positive attitude
A person may not appear beautiful or handsome, but their positive outlook increases others’ admiration for them.
Positive attitudes impact your work in particular and your life in general.
Chapter Four
Can anyone take away your positive attitude?
This is especially true when you get involved in a conflict with others. You put yourself at risk of losing your positive attitude. If this happens, your positive attitude is being stolen. Therefore, you should follow some strategies, including:
1. Try to resolve the conflict as quickly as possible so it doesn’t escalate.
2. When someone behaves unethically toward you, show them that you are above responding.
3. Stay away from the person with whom you have a conflict, meaning avoid and steer clear of people with whom you are constantly in conflict.
Chapter Five
The need to renew positions
Our attitudes are constantly influenced by various factors, requiring us to pause and renew or adjust our attitudes
and repair any damage. These factors include:
1. Environmental shocks, whether familial or financial, some of which may be inevitably imposed upon you.
2. Problems resulting from self-esteem issues that arise from a perceived lack of self-worth or self-loathing.
3. An internal tendency toward negative attitudes. This is an internal tendency toward negative attitudes and may be a product of the civilized nature of societies.
Therefore, a person must know the extent of the adjustment they need to make to their attitudes in order to plan for it properly.
Chapter Two: How to Adjust and Adapt the Situation
Chapter One
There are several specific techniques that can help you change your attitude and make it more positive, including:
1. Use humor when looking at a problem, and don’t consider it the end of the world.
2. Focus on the positive elements in your life and minimize the negative ones.
3. Keep your life simple, free of complications and obligations.
4. Protect yourself from the constant dominance of the problem in your thinking.
5. Let others share your positive attitude.
6. Take care of your appearance to yourself and others.
7. Accept the direct relationship between physical health and a positive attitude.
8. Set goals for your life, which will give you steady and balanced movement.
Chapter Three: The Relationship Between Attitude and Action
Chapter One
Your workplace is the best place to understand your positive attitude for several reasons:
1. Working alongside a positive person makes work more enjoyable.
2. Working with positive people helps you forget about difficulties and problems.
3. Positive employee attitudes boost morale, which plays a role in getting the job done.
4. People spend most of their waking hours at work, and without a positive attitude at work, time passes by slowly and difficultly.
The employee contributes to shaping the situation, whether negative or positive, regardless of their skills or qualifications. An employee with limited qualifications can initiate positive attitudes, which increases their productivity and effectiveness despite their modest qualifications and skills.
Chapter Two
What is your attitude towards working with multiracial people?
There has been a change in the work environment, and it has become possible to find more than one culture in the work environment, by finding people from different backgrounds and from multiple cultures. It is important to try to build new relationships with employees from different cultures, and adopt positive attitudes in dealing with them. This in turn will give you a great incentive to be positive with those who are not from your culture, so how about those who are from your gender and culture?!
Chapter Three
Your attitude determines how successful you will be in your business.
Your attitude plays a significant role in your career and your success or failure. If you adopt a positive attitude, it will be a testament to your success, and vice versa. What does job success depend on?
Success in your job depends on two factors: your work skills and the technical or professional aspects of your job. The second factor is your human relationships and the strength of your connection with others, which begins with adopting positive attitudes.
Building successful human relationships in the workplace leads to positive attitudes, the impact of which is reflected not only in employee relationships but also in the organization’s attitude, and consequently, increased productivity, which stems from adopting positive attitudes.
Chapter Four
Attitude and leadership at work
Managers can build positive attitudes among their employees, leading to increased success and increased productivity. This is because leaders strive to:
1. A positive leader’s attitude is reflected in followers, and vice versa.
2. A policy of building strong human relationships to motivate followers and boost their morale.
3. The rotten apple principle, advising and correcting negative employees.
4. The relationship between attitude and self-confidence. A positive attitude depends on self-confidence.
As a principle of immediate confidence restoration, a positive attitude must be renewed when a problem or mistake occurs, whether individual or collective.
Chapter Four: How can you maintain your positive attitude?
Chapter One
When faced with various problems, each of us can adopt a positive attitude under all circumstances, each according to his or her own needs. To adopt a positive attitude toward these problems, there are three useful steps:
1. Take your time until you develop a positive attitude, free from rashness and haste.
2. Determine the best solution to the problem by presenting options and alternatives to resolve it and making your decision based on the best one.
3. Accept the solution you arrive at with an open heart. You must realize that not all solutions are ideal, but the solution you arrive at and are convinced of, open your heart to it, and adapt to it as a new way of life.
Finally,
A positive attitude achieves success in every direction it takes. Therefore, a positive attitude is considered the most valuable asset you possess.
