"Attitude: Your Most Priceless Possession"

"Attitude is the way you look at things mentally." The author explains that your attitude is like a camera and you have to decide how and on what to focus. This book offers eight methods to adjust your attitude. They are: The Flipside Technique, Play Your Winners, Simplify! Simplify!, Insulate! Insulate!, Give Your Positive Attitude Away, Look Better To Yourself, Accept The Physical Connection and Clarify Your Life's Mission. They can all be incorporated or you can choose those that most benefit you. I found that The Flipside Technique and the Simplify! method were most beneficial for me.
The Flipside Technique means taking a seemingly negative situation and finding the humorous side to it. An example happened when making coffee at work once. The filter holder fell just as the hot water came flowing out of the machine. With coffee grounds all over the floor, all I could do was let the water run into the glass coffee pitcher. My manager saw the "flipside". The coffee pitcher was getting cleaned.
The Simplify method involves a short questionaire to determine the "clutter" in your life. The clutter could be possessions,
involvements, imbalances, procrastinations or relationships. After determining your clutter, you make a "to do list" to release
your clutter. I chose to throw out lots of papers, give away clothes I no longer wear and designate a day for laundry and
cleaning at home.
The book shows how attitude is reflected in your personality and how it affects all of your environments. The main point of this book is to teach us that attitude should be considered as important as money, material possessions or relationships.

©Rhonda Kelley and "The Dispatcher" 1995