“Your attitude, not your aptitude, determines your altitude.” – Zig Ziglar
Success is something that every individual strives to achieve.
Every single person in the world has their own goals and dreams.
Young or old, male or female, black or white, rich or poor, all have the
same drive and desire to live life in the best way they see possible.
Trying to succeed is an integral human behavior that pays no heed to
superficial and emotional factors. We are built to want something more,
to improve ourselves, and to be a better person than who we were
yesterday. How does one succeed in life? This is a common question that
one asks countless times. The answer depends on how you view yourself.
You know yourself more than anybody else. This means that you can have
the most precise answer from within you; and no one else can come as
close to the correct answer than you can. However, there is always
something you can do to ensure that you do find the answer.
Attitudes can be likened to a simple engine that can either slow you down, or help you move forward.
As simple as it is, it is the only sure method you have for being
successful in life and in the end, it all comes down to how well you
manage it. Always bear in mind that in the path to success, your
attitude determines what and how much you can do. It is the one
responsible for guiding your aptitudes, but when infected by pride; it
can become as useless as an abandoned car left to rust and waste through
time. Whether you make it or not depends mainly on which attitudes you
possess. For instance, Determination; which you learned as a toddler
when you got up after each stumble. Fortitude, which you discovered as
you learned to wipe your tears and continue after each hurt. Courage;
which you acquired as you learned to cope with the hazards of your
environment, and Sociability; which you begin to acquire as soon as you
talk and communicate with others. Such attitudes ensure that as you
strive to make your dreams come true and as you push to make your goals
ever nearer, you do so without losing your sense of worth. The seed of
success lies within and what we call maturing is the ever growing
ability to look inside and find our answers within our self. Self
knowledge is the fuel that feeds positive attitudes.
Aptitudes come hand in hand with your attitudes. Everyone is born with a basketful of aptitudes we usually call talents.
Aptitudes are our potential to learn skills which we develop and hone
through time. We call it growing up. When you learn and begin to
utilize your talents to take control of your environment, you begin
weaving a particular set of aptitudes. What works, you continue using.
What does not, you strive to change. However, aptitudes alone cannot
take you all the way through the path to success. It is fully dependent
on the very nature of the attitudes you have. This is mainly why your
attitude, not your aptitude, determines your altitude.
Run your attitude with humility and you can achieve your
highest goals and dreams, use pride and don’t hope to even see a glimpse
of them.
It is so very easy to weave a net of attitudes that lead to failure.
This is so because for every positive, there is a negative. Fortitude
carried to excess leads to a conviction that one exists only in
suffering. Courage can lead to foolhardiness, and self knowledge can be
infected by hubris, and to rigidity that kills creativity. Also, while
the pursuit of wealth is a given in our world- a necessity and an
adjunct to survival, it is not the ultimate aim. Life should be more
than that. In the tendency to forget everything else for the sake of
gathering wealth, failure comes easily. To avoid these unfavorable
changes, it is imperative that you keep your aptitudes in check and
never get carried away to the point that you don’t even realize your
attitude is changing for the worse.
Achieving success is never an easy feat; rather, it demands hard work.
You have an advantage if you know that your success or failure
depends on your attitudes. Start taking a closer look within and see if
you have been too focused on what you want to achieve that it didn’t
even cross your mind to check if you are still truly YOU. If you have,
determine what led you astray and work hard at finding the correct set
of aptitudes and attitudes and if you have not, then don’t lose track
and continue keeping a close eye on yourself. Only you can make your own
way to success. Have you reflected on your attitudes and aptitudes
today?
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