Lecture 15
Positive Mental Attitude
I firmly believe that enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When we start doing anything, we should do it with all our might. Putting our whole soul into it, stamping it with our own personality and getting the best result from our efforts. We would be filled with extreme joy.
It is one of the many truths that when we are active, energetic, enthusiastic and faithful with ourselves, we would always accomplish our objective. Let me reiterate that nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Having looked at the power of enthusiasm, I feel now is the right time to indoctrinate you with the idea of positive mental attitude (PMA).
PMA is the beginning of all truth, beauty and goodness in us, it is a reality, it is a miracle but it is not always easy to attain because we have faced and witnessed a lot of negative things in our life time. It becomes much easier to believe that this is a terrible world and we are full of problems because our own people have continuously told us that seeing is believing. We are not prepared to take any risks and try out new things for us. This is due to an innate propensity called fear. Others who constantly think that things cannot be done have influenced us. We have to think differently and ACT otherwise so that we are not held back by our own fear of failure.
A = Assertiveness – This is our power and quality of expressing ourselves positively, strongly and meaningfully. C = Creativity - This is our ability to make the best use of our resources and invent new and positive ideas and solutions.
T = Thoughtfulness - This is our god given ability to consider, reflect and form useful and positive ideas in our mind.
I agree that PMA is a difficult phenomenon but certainly attainable if we throw away the mask of negative feelings and regenerate our power of imagination. We need to move away from all fear and start acting and looking at positive choices that provide us with positive results. Then we would have a definite edge for progress and join the group of so many ‘Can-Do’ types of people.
If these types of developments begin to grow then it would be easy to manifest your desire to think differently and see everything in the new light. Our new and valuable thoughts and ideas would provide us with greater inspir