Place a Higher Value on Your Positive Attitude

The more you respect and covet your positive attitude, the more you will want to take quick action to preserve it. Normally, we only protect those possessions that we deem priceless. When you come to the conclusion your positive attitude is the golden key to your future, you will want to restore it as soon as possible once it has been stepped on.

Genelle. Some co-workers pile extra, uninteresting work on Genelle because she has the reputation of being so easy-going. When she belatedly discovered that being such a “push-over” around the office was turning her negative, she did an about face and, as a result, she is respected more and fewer co-workers step on her attitude these days.

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