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| The First 60 Minutes of Your Day
In working with clients I tend to hear from people who are
unsure of what they want to do with the rest of their life, but
will focus on telling me what they don’t want to do. It goes
something like this, “I’ve worked it that industry before and
wouldn’t want to do that again.”
The reality is, successful people focus on what they do want and
how they are going to accomplish it. As a result of this mental
attitude, they have much more fulfilling careers.
Unsuccessful people, who wander from one thing to another, tend
to focus on what they don’t want out of life. As a result, they
usually get just that!
Martin Seligman author of the best-selling book Learned
Optimism, interviewed 350,000 men and women over a twenty-year
period to find out how their thinking patterns.
What Seligman discovered was that the predominant quality of
successful people is optimism. People who succeed in their
career fields are much more optimistic than the average person.
They simply have a positive mental attitude about themselves and
others.
Let’s think about how people fall into patterns of negative
thinking. Many people start their days out watching or listening
to the news as they grab their cup of coffee and rush out the
door to work. This feeds a lot of negative input into the brain.
Disasters, fatalities, and corruption are all part of what sells
in news these days. Instead of absorbing this negative input to
start off, how about replacing it with something positive - like
spending time in scripture, exercising and reading, or listening
to something that motivates you to achieve?
Of course, I’m not saying that you should ignore the news like
an ostrich with its head in the sand. Instead keep it in small
doses and don’t make it the platform by which you start each
morning. Remember, the first 60 minutes of each day will set the
tone for what the remainder of the day will look like.
Want to start your first 60 minutes out right? Check out Dan’s
new inspirational book, The Rudder of The Day.
To access the links in this article, visit
www.careercalling.com/Archives.htm and read edition July 22,
2005.
About the author:
Find out why Dave Ramsey recommends the program that we teach.
Visit www.careercalling.com!
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