I like the Make One Change that is on the AJH Homepage. That can apply to so many aspects of our daily lives. It can be our diet, our overall health-physical and mental, our exercise routine, volunteering or how we approach life. And that’s what I would like to talk about today-our attitude, especially having a positive attitude. When we get out of bed in the morning and put our feet on the floor, we can have a positive attitude or a negative attitude. The choice is ours.

Scientific studies have shown that there is a definite correlation between a positive attitude and good health and happiness. And studies have shown that having a positive attitude in business is an attribute that leads to success and is looked for in job applicants over many other attributes.

Charles Swindoll said “Attitude is more important than the past, education, money, circumstances, failures, success, what other people think, appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break an organization, a school or a home.” He goes on to say “I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.” These are pretty good words to live by each day!

Here’s how we can all have a great day—Awaken early, do some inspirational reading, exercise, listen to a positive CD, have a nourishing breakfast, have wholesome, positive thoughts, pleasant greetings to everyone we meet, appreciate everything we have, listen more, talk less, see work as pleasurable, count our blessings, have a moderate lunch and dinner, relax and play, review our accomplishments, give thanks and go to sleep.

Two books that I have read and re-read are Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking and Napoleon Hill’s and W. Clement Stone’s Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude. These are classics in the field and have meant a lot to me. I read them often to re-charge my batteries and fight off the bombardment of negativity that we all are subject to.