Never doubt how critical your attitude is to your successful career transition. You need to do more than just believe that there is an opportunity out there with your name on it – you need to know it with all of your being.
Below are some other perspectives besides mine on the topic. Gonna keep reading? Then prepare to be inspired.
Choose Your Attitude
“We who lived in the concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: The last of his freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” – Viktor Frankl, holocaust survivor and author of Man’s Search for Meaning
You’re Never Too Old
In the 1950’s, Ray Kroc was an exclusive distributor for a company that produced “multi-mixer” milkshake machines. Impressed by a small chain of hamburger restaurants based in San Bernardino, California, he acquired franchising rights from the owners, the McDonald brothers, and founded the McDonald’s Corporation at age 52.
Stay Open to the Possibilities
It’s been said that Henry Ford went broke 5x before he finally succeeded. He stayed open to possibilities, which served him well. Ford observed how the meat processing and packing industry in Chicago used an overhead assembly line process. Each butcher along the line made individual special cuts as the beef carcasses passed by. Ford and his efficiency experts figured out how to adapt this process to the production of cars, and reduced the assembly time for a Model T chassis by half.
Let Nothing Hold You Back
Wilma Rudolph was born prematurely, weighing only 4.5 lbs at birth. When she was a toddler, she contracted scarlet fever and pneumonia, resulting in a paralyzed left leg. At age 9, she removed her leg brace and began to walk without physical support. In high school, she started competing in track races. After a lot of hard work and some failures, as well as victories along the way, she ended up winning 3 gold medals in the 1960 Olympics.
When you woke up this morning, what attitude did you choose? If you don’t like the one you picked, then consider exercising your freedom to trade it for another.