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THE POWER OF
A POSITIVE ATTITUDE
For the longest time in my career NOT change my attitude or allow others you how amazing your life could be
I’ve always wanted to make an impact into the people I meet or cross paths with. Managing clients,
meeting new people, networking, going to events, participating in the community or just showing up at your favorite party gives you the opportunity to express your human being nature, your personality, your talents and definitely your attitude but because I’ve always been an entrepreneur I really never experience working with the same people on a daily basis until I recently joined a corporation where you get to see the same face every day.
Big surprise for me was to adapt myself to what the team thought it was “the right attitude” when I got there in the beginning people thought i was the crazy one who would say Good morning to everyone” with excitement and happiness. Some thought they could be educated and responded the same way, but others definitely ignored my good mood and not even realized they were ignoring me.
To my surprise I was directly asked to
to change how I was without even thinking that other people can actually affect that on a daily basis. Then days went on and on and after a few months I realized that the happier, excited and thankful I was the more people were wondering where all that energy was coming from. until one day somebody had the desire and the intention to ask me and the response surprised most of the team-mates around the table when I say the reason why you always see me like this is because i have empowered my mindset every morning with positive affirmations, positive attitude, positive music in the car, positive reading and I made that decision when I step out of my bed every morning even when I do not feel like it. After everybody laugh about myself and called me “naive” I added that I do not come to the workspace because of a paycheck or because I need the job but because I have a passion for what I do so really coming into this space is not working at all.
I have been so caught up in fulfilling my passion and my purpose that I almost forgot to write this article and share with
transformed by practicing these simple steps on a daily basis. Of course, not every part of it is easy because of many reasons; number one we are surrounded with more than one negative person around us and believe it or not most of the times that person could be your significant other or someone that you spend a lot of your time with. Number two because we live in a negative society that keep criticizing and judging every step of your way and number three because the first word you were taught by your parents was “no”. Basically, your brain is already predetermined to say
“no” to everything as a natural reaction so when I’m sharing, speaking or mentoring other entrepreneurs in the reason why they fail in their business is because of these 3 reasons. Is it hard to keep up? Absolutely but the power of having a positive attitude relies on not thinking about yourself but in your commitment of enriching and painting the world with different colours, since then ... I’m called the rainbow of the office!
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BY: DANIELA FERREIRA
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