Our life is an obstacle course and we
become our own biggest obstacle by having a negative attitude. People with a
negative attitude have a hard time keeping friendships, jobs, marriage and
relationships. Their attitude leads to
- bitterness
- resentment
- a purposeless life
- ill health
- high stress level for themselves and others
They
create a negative environment at home and work and become a liability to
society. They also pass on their negative behavior to others around them and to
future generations.
WHEN WE BECOME AWARE OF OUR NEGATIVE ATTITUDE, WHY DON'T WE
CHANGE?
Human
nature generally resists change. Change is uncomfortable. Regardless of its
positive or negative effect, change can be stressful. Sometimes we get so
comfortable with our negativity that even when the change is for the positive,
we don't want to accept it. We stay with the negative.
Charles Dickens wrote
about a prisoner who stayed for many years in a dungeon. After serving his
sentence, he got his freedom. He was brought out from his cell into the bright
daylight of the open world.
This man looked all around and after a few moments
was so uncomfortable with his newly acquired freedom that he asked to be
brought back to his cell into confinement. To him, t e dungeon, the chains and
the darkness were more h secure and comfortable than accepting the change of
freedom and the open world.
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