Keep a Positive Attitude Even if You’re on Your Last String!

The great violinist Paganini was performing before a most distinguished audience. Suddenly, one of his violin strings snapped. The audience gasped. But the master musician continued unruffled to play on the three remaining strings.

Snap! A second string broke. Then, with a sharp crack, a third string broke! For a brief moment, the artist stopped, raised his famous Stradivarius violin high, and with one hand announced, “One string — and Paganini.”

With outstanding skill, he finished the selection on a single string. His performance was flawless, and the audience gave him a tumultuous standing ovation.

There will be times in your life when one string after another will snap. And you will go through circumstances that might tempt you to give up. But if you maintain a positive attitude, you won’t allow yourself to give up. Here are my top four ways to creating an unbeatable positive attitude that’s invincible to failure - no matter what:

1. Stay calm.
When the tough times come into your business or into your life, it’s easy to get angry, agitated, or scared. This won’t help you. In fact the more emotional you get, the less capable you become. Instead, you must force yourself to remain calm. Not only will your calmness allow your mind to work, but it will also reinforce your own positive attitude. It’s a way of re-affirming that you can handle it.

2. Refuse to blame anyone or anything for your problems.
It’s easy and natural to blame someone else. After all, your company, your boss, your parents, your friends, and your spouse might even deserve some blame. Nonetheless, a critical step in attitude development is refusing to blame. Even though it may be justified, don’t do it.

The problem with blaming anyone or anything for your problems is that it doesn’t work. It doesn’t change anything. It doesn’t make anything better. All blame can do is keep you stuck in a rut or make you spiteful. I guarantee this won’t turn you into a winner. It’s not going to help you achieve peak performance.

3. Focus on the positive.
There’s always some good in a bad situation. And there’s always some bad in a good situation. It’s the Yin Yang effect. So, what do you choose to focus on? An old ditty says it this way:

“As you go through life, brother,
Whatever be your goal,
Keep your eye upon the doughnut,
And not upon the hole!”

Some people focus on the hole. But the strategy seldom if ever works. You’ve got to stop keeping track of the negatives. Perhaps you’ve noticed. On a bad day, some people tend to count every irritation or inconvenience that occurs. They’ll burst out with, “This is the third time today something like this has happened.” Yet seldom on a good day do these people say, “This is the third time today something great has happened.” Keeping track of the negative simply gives you a weak and defeated negative attitude.

If you want to achieve peak performance, you must focus on the positive like Frank did, even though his constant optimism irritated his friends. No matter how horrible the circumstances, he’d remark, “It could have been worse.”

To cure him of his annoying habit, his friends decided to invent a situation that was so bad, so terrible that even Frank could find no hope in it. On the golf course one day, his friends said, “Frank did you hear about Tom? He came home last night, found his wife in bed with another man, shot them both, and then turned the gun on himself.”

“That’s horrible,” Frank said.
“But it could have been worse.”
“How could it possibly be any worse?” his friends asked.
“Well,” Frank answered, “If it had happened the night before, I’d be dead.”

4. Refuse to use a loser’s language.
The happiest, most successful peak performers, whether in life, in sports or in business, are those people who refuse to use a loser’s language. They know that words precede results. They know if they talk like a loser, they’ll end up losing. But they know if they refuse to acknowledge defeat, they cannot be defeated.

It’s like the little boy who walked onto the baseball field saying, “I’m the greatest hitter in the world.” He threw up the ball, swung, missed, and said, “Strike one.” He threw up the ball again, and once more he swung and missed, and said, “Strike two.” He did that for three strikes in a row.

At that point he picked up his bat and ball. With a smile on his face, he walked off the field and said, “I’m the greatest pitcher in the world.” He refused to use the language of a loser. He only talked about winning, and so should you.

Tough times will come. You may get knocked down at work or in life. But with the right attitude, using the four skills I just discussed, you can get back up. You can get back on track toward success. And you can reach optimal peak performance.

As a best-selling author and Hall of Fame professional speaker, Dr. Alan Zimmerman has taught more than one million people in 48 states and 22 countries how to keep a positive attitude on and off the job. In his book, “PIVOT: How One Turn In Attitude Can Lead To Success,” Dr. Zimmerman outlines the exact steps you must take toget the results you want in any situation.

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Four Steps to a Super Attitude

Four Steps to a Super Attitude
By: Brian Tracy

Decide How to React
It is not what happens to you that counts. It is how you react to what happens to you, especially when you have unexpected problems of any kind.

Learn how you can use to keep yourself thinking and acting positively and creatively.

Here are four things you can do to assure that your attitude is the very best it can be, under all circumstances.

Focus On the Future
First, whatever challenges you face, focus on the future rather than on the past. Instead of worrying about who did what and who is to blame, focus on where you want to be and what you want to do. Get a clear mental image of your ideal successful future, and then take whatever action you can to begin moving in that direction. Get your mind, your thoughts, and your mental images on the future.

Think About the Solution
Second, whenever you're faced with a difficulty, focus on the solution rather than on the problem. Think and talk about the ideal solution to the obstacle or setback, rather than wasting time rehashing and reflecting on the problem. Solutions are inherently positive, whereas problems are inherently negative. The instant that you begin thinking in terms of solutions, you become a positive and constructive human being.

Look For the Good
Third, assume that something good is hidden within each difficulty or challenge. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, a major proponent of positive thinking, once said, "Whenever God wants to give us a gift, he wraps it up in a problem." The bigger the gift you have coming, the bigger the problem you will receive. But the wonderful thing is that if you look for the gift, you will always find it.

Seek the Valuable Lesson
Fourth, assume that whatever situation you are facing at the moment is exactly the right situation you need to ultimately be successful. This situation has been sent to you to help you learn something, to help you become better, to help you expand and grow.

Decide to Be Positive
A Positive Mental Attitude is indispensable to your success. You can be as positive as you want to be if you will simply think about the future, focus on the solution and look for the good. If you do what other successful people do, if you use your mind to exert mental control over the situation, you will be positive and cheerful most of the time. And you will reap the benefits enjoyed by all successful people.

Action Exercises
Here are three steps you can take immediately to put these ideas into action:

First, become solution-oriented with every difficulty you face. Make a habit of looking for the answers to your questions, the solutions to your problems.

Second, seek for the valuable lesson in every adversity. Make a list of every idea or insight you can gain from every setback or difficulty.

Third, think on paper. Take some time to write out every detail of the problem, and then take the most logical next step to solve it.

Never Give up..!!!

To hate all roses; because you got scratched by one thorn.
To give up all your dreams; because one did not come true.
To lose faith in prayers; because one was not answered.



To give up on your efforts; because one of them failed.
To condemn all your friends;because one of them betrayed.
Not to believe in love; because someone was unfaithful'



Remember that, another chance may come up.
A new friend, A new love, A new life...!!!!!

To do or not to do

This is one of the most boggling questions that confuses people. This is the question that keeps us from achieving or loosing it all together. There is a saying “Winners never quit and Quitters never Win.” This is just an extension of the well known quote.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step… that right, one who goes is the one who gets (read as achieves). So with all this around I don’t think there will any ways be the point of to do or not to do it’s only going to be “do and more do”.

There is no harm in trying what we have never tried, that is the only way we will get over our fear of failure. We fail only when we don’t try i.e. we quit trying, till we try and we have the strength to improve we can achieve our goal. It’s only that we are living in a frightened world… the fear of failure tends to take the joy of success away.

We have to be bold enough to face our own self. This is the way we are, we know we have to get some where then there is no point in thinking if we have to start or not. What that finally matter is the experience that we gain. Experience that we gain is more important than the end result of the attempt. The thing that lives with us in the long run (our life) is not the laurel that we would gain on victory, it’s the lessons that we learnt and can improve up on and apply further in our life.

Challenge familiarity

Almost every one of us want to live in a familiar domain... we want to stay in the city that we are familiar with... we want to keep company only with those whom we already know... we want to visit only those places which we know and are accustomed to, we want things to be easy and laid out. In general its the cozy feeling that we want to stay with... we don’t want to try something that might involve a risk, some challenge in it... we want the path of least resistance...
Well form another angle do we really benefit from this sort of an attitude, I hardly feel at any point we might have gained from such an attitude. If we look back in life its always been rewarding one way or another to challenge this love for familiarity that we have.... each of our experiences show that when we tried something new and difficult we have come out with a new understanding and perspective to the particular work or a whole new experience that has mad us richer and more open which is essential to our life on a much larger scale...

Essentially I don’t find any reason why we should not try something new... of course that we have to have the time and the resources that might be needed for the particular purpose... So just go ahead and try the next time you are contemplating as to - "TO DO OR NOT TO DO!!!"