Use your Positive Mental Attitude to Accelerate Your Goals – An Interview with Maryanne Ross
This week’s guest on the Institute of Success and Goal Achievement, Maryanne Ross shows how shifting your attitude can enable you to improve your results and experience more fun, freedom, and fulfillment in everything you do.
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Do you wonder what separates average from great results? Our inner cheerleader – our Positive Mental Attitude – has proven to be part of the answer to this question over and over, yet many people struggle to maintain a Positive Mental Attitude day in and day out.
Maryanne Ross is a living example of how any of us can thrive once we’ve learned how to harness the power of our Positive Mental Attitude. She shares her story – from fork truck driver, to middle management, to entrepreneur and small business owner. The edge she had all through her career was her Positive Mental Attitude.
Maryanne does a wonderful job describing the difference between a Positive Mental Attitude and the opposite – a negative attitude. I think you’ll find that even the most positive of us slip and have a negative thought now and then. She shared a statistic that 80% of the thoughts we think are negative – imagine if you should change this percentage even slightly in your favor the advantage you’d enjoy.
One of many other principles for maintaining positive attitudes and great results is gratitude. Another is having great mentors. She demonstrated both during this interview. Maryanne graciously credits the mentors she’s had during her life for guiding her on the path that led to her many great successes. My challenge to you is to be sure that you have mentors in your life, too – people who have been through the challenges you’re likely to face, and can help you come out on top.
One thing that is important to remember – we can choose the attitude we “wear”. Maryanne describes this as Mental Apparel. Too often, we spend more time deciding what clothes to wear than what attitudes to wear. Choose to wear a positive attitude.
As you listen to this interview, consider the times when you were faced with a challenge and chose to have a great attitude through the experience. Were you satisfied with the result? What about when you chose to have a negative or critical attitude through the challenging experience – how did that work out for you? I hope you find that choosing to hold a positive outlook no matter what will shape your experience to be more enjoyable and satisfying for you.
