
Personal Growth – How Far Can I Grow?
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Each person has unique and beautiful gifts. Each one of us can make important contributions to our communities and the world around us. Your attitude is the single biggest thing that will enable you to maximize your gifts and contributions. At the end of the day, “your attitude will determine your altitude.” It’s important to take steps to understand and maximize your attitude to achieve your success.
Let’s start with the definition of attitude from Oxford: “A settled way of thinking or feeling about someone or something, typically one that is reflected in a person’s behavior.” The two keywords here are settled and behavior. Settled means that this is within you, a part of you. Behavior is key because it shows your attitude will be reflected in your actions. It’s what you’re thinking and how you are behaving.
It’s a fundamental piece for how you communicate both knowingly and unknowingly with others.
Many things shape our attitude: how we grew up, how you look, your current environment, your self-image, family, friends, and co-workers. Regardless of where we come from, we all have a choice each day. How am I going to live my life today? Taking a positive, energized view to answer this question can be a game-changer to make big progress toward success and reaching your potential.
Let’s get started with an attitude check. Here are a few prompts to get your self-assessment going; be sure to be honest and truthful:
Commit to changing. Attitude is a choice, with commitment and effort you can change for the better. Surrounding yourself with positive thoughts and positive people makes a huge difference. If you commit to changing and improving, just one day at a time, wonderful things will happen.
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You’ve been through some years and experiences by now. My guess is you have seen things that encouraged and maybe energized you as you look to the future. You probably have had some things that have turned you off to people and potentially the world around. These life experiences have shaped your attitude in a meaningful way.
Here’s the important part: your attitude today is the jet fuel to help you achieve your potential, success, and personal growth. A bad attitude can poison your life’s journey toward discovering your gifts, achieving your potential, and reaching success in your 20s and beyond.
An honest and heartfelt assessment of your attitude is needed to make sure this key aspect of you is in the right place to help you move forward.
In his book “Your Roadmap for Success,” John Maxwell gives us 7 signs of a great attitude.
Take some time to assess yourself for each one. A scale of 1 (low) to 5 (high) is an easy way to do this. Be honest. This is about you, your gifts and potential, and your attitude to discover them and truly make them yours.
Let me add 1 more to the list…
The above questions should give a good indication as to where your attitude is. Know how important this is to move forward to achieve success. What’s your honest assessment of your strength and what you could do better? Commit to getting better.
Starting tomorrow, write down what you will strive to change each day. Trust me, you will be surprised and awed with the results.
Recognize that attitude is one of the most important pieces of discovering and maximizing your potential and achieving success.
What’s going well? What do you need to work on?
Commit to improving your attitude each day. How can you leverage some strengths to truly propel yourself forward? What is something you could do better?
Senior Program Manager
Tim is a Senior Program Manager at the Christ Hospital Health Network, where he recently led their team to open a Joint & Spine Center. From start-ups to mature businesses, local to global, Cincinnati to Hong Kong, he’s seen it all. As a business driver, community leader, and personal coach, he specializes in helping people and organizations find and maximize their talents and opportunities.
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