Monday, March 19, 2012

Choose Your Attitude

Taking responsibility for how your respond to life when it happens - and it does - impacts everyone around us. Not just the people with whom we work but family, friends, neighbors, store clerks and people passing by on the street. It begs the question "Is my attitude helping my team, (family, clients? Is it helping me be the person I want to be?


There is always a choice about the way you do your work even if there's not a choice about the work itself. Some may feel like there isn't a choice about where to work - maybe you're not qualified to do what you really want to do and don't have the resources to get additional training. Perhaps you aren't able to move from where you live due to familal obligations and where you live offers little choice. So changing the workplace or geography may not be an option. But the way in which you do it IS a choice.


When you are doing what you are doing, who are you being? Are you crabby? completely unapproachable? Or are you being the absolute best you can be? Being the best you can be is infectious and can reap huge rewards...


  • Accepting that attitude IS a choice demonstrates a level of accountability and proactivity that fills the workplace

  • Choosing your attitude and playing the victim are mutually exclusive

  • Making the decision to bring your best self to work allows us to bring our best qualities to work even though we are not able to do exactly what we want at the time

IT IS A CHOICE!