A Constructive Example of Making Your Attitude Your Ally

A Constructive Example of Making Your Attitude Your Ally

It can be quite easy for someone to just tell you that making your attitude your ally is a good idea. However, until you actually see it at work, you may not fully believe in the idea.

Here is a story about how making your attitude your ally can work beautifully. How it can help transform a lousy life into something great. Janet was quite the pessimistic person. Janet approached every situation thinking the worst would happen. She never tried to even think positive.

Janet rarely smiled and she often spoke negatively about everyone and everything in her life. Janet had high blood pressure, no close friends, a job she hated and she was deep in debt. She read an article about how making your attitude your ally will help guide you in life and how that attitude needs to be positive if you want a happy and productive life.

Janet considered what she had read and decided to put the idea to work for her. She figured she had nothing to lose. The next morning when she woke up, the same negative thoughts began creeping into her mind. Instead of embracing them as she usually did, she pushed them away and replaced them with positive thoughts. Instead of anticipating the traffic jam she usually encountered on the way to work, she thought only about her favorite song playing on the radio and thought about how lucky she was to be able to hear that morning. When she reached her office, instead of simply rushing to her office as she usually did, she smiled at a few co-workers and stopped to have a chat with the secretary.

Her boss even acknowledged her good work on the project she had just completed when he came in. She noted that if she had rushed to her office, she would not have even been standing there for him to talk to. Later that day her boss called her into his office. He talked to her about how she seemed different today. He said he was glad to see her that morning because it reminded him of what a good worker she is and he realized she was perfect for the opening in management that he needed to fill. Janet ended up getting a promotion.

After that day Janet kept making her attitude her ally. She trained herself to be positive and things started to really look up in her life. She made some friends at work and she started to feel better about herself and her life. When Janet turned her attitude into a positive one and made her attitude her ally, she started to live a life she could only long for before.

The same thing could happen to you. Make your attitude your ally and see how it works out for you. Why did this work for Janet? Take a constructive look at her situation. Janet usually sat in traffic and fumed about how it was slowing her down. She went straight to the negative and even though her favorite song had probably played on the radio during her morning commute, she was so stuck in the negative that she never even heard it.

Today, Janet was open to hearing the song and when she did hear it she got a slight boost in the way she felt. It was that slight boost that helped her to remain calm and relaxed whole sitting in traffic. Besides the immediate effect of Janet feeling more calm and being able to handle her traffic jam, there is also the fact that calming down and letting go of the stress is good for her health. Her blood pressure and pulse were likely lower than normal and that is great for her heart health.

Janet never greeted anyone in her office with any positive motions. She just went to her office every morning and sat by herself. Today, she actually took the time to smile at coworkers and to even talk. She was able to start building relationships at the office which will help her to be happier about going to work and enjoy the office much more. Having her boss come in while she was socializing gave her some much needed face time with him. Had she not been out there he would have never even considered her for the promotion. Janet made many changes in her life just in one day. Imagine what could happen to you. Could making such a change impact your life in a big way too? Yes it can. So you have nothing to lose by allowing yourself to try making your attitude your ally.