Your attitude is your choice

Attitude is everything! It is part of what makes our self concept - ours.

People with “attitude” are wrongly labelled as troublemakers, punks, brats, spoilers, dissenters and drama queens. Whilst these people do seem to have a need to display some form of aggressive, emotional or “disturbing” behaviour, not all people with “attitude” are troublemakers, punks, brats, spoilers, dissenters and drama queens. In fact we all have “attitude” and depending on our mood or state of mind usually determines our “attitude” at any given time.

But the thing is - attitude is all about choice. You can choose the kind of person that you are and the attitude that you adopt in the same way that you can choose a pair of shoes or the clothes that you wear. What you have to eat and whether you drink a little or a lot. It is all about choice, and attitude is no different. Whilst it might be fun to play the drama queen game occasionally, pouting and flouncing to get your own way, if you do it on a regular basis it will only make you believe your own press. “it worked once, so it will work again”. Let me put it this way – most people can see straight through the attitude, so change it, you will get far more out of life and your relationships if you treat other people with the respect they deserve.

As we go through the next couple of weeks we will see some of the best and the worst behaviours of "attitude"  I hope yours is a positive one and your concept of self is not negatively impacted.