My cell phone broke last night. So I found myself spending Saturday evening with what seemed to be half the town at the cell phone store. What I encountered there was a surprisingly hostile crowd. I overheard complaints about repair prices and wait times, witnessed arguing among customers about who should be standing where, and found myself inconveniently placed next to a man who was demanding to see camera footage to show he hadn't been in the store at an earlier time.
There was nothing especially unpleasant about my visit to the store. I had to wait longer than was desirable, but the store appeared to be completely staffed and running as efficiently as possible. The sales associate that helped me was knowledgeable and pleasant. Yet, as I continued to experience the discontent around me, and as another customer attempted to engage me in unhappiness, I found myself getting impatient and irritated like the other customers.
I couldn't figure out any basis for my change in attitude. Undoubtedly, the hostility of the atmosphere was sucking me in. Because my work on personal values development made me conscious of it, I was able to pull myself up and maintain a pleasant and positive mental attitude. But truly, it was work.
And truly, it will be work for you to always have a positive attitude when getting your work at home business off the ground. That's why you need to have a solid start on your personal values development before you worry about how to HTML and FTP, and what your Cpanel is.
It all goes back to the fact that your home based business success is 90% dependent on your mindset. And the beauty of it is that your mindset, your attitude, is 100% within your control. At the cell phone store, I could have bought into the negative atmosphere and become entirely frustrated with my visit there. What purpose would this have served me?
Once you allow something to put you into a bad mood, it has a compounding effect. Think about the times that you've had a bad day. Usually, whether you recognize it or not, you let one thing negatively affect you and then everything else just seems to go wrong that day. It's not that you're just completely unlucky and the victim of the universe's bad fortunes that day. Rather, it's that everything you encounter is colored by your mindset -- which is, "I'm having a bad day." Others who have the misfortune of encountering you on one of these days may ask you if you "woke up on the wrong side of the bed."
So how do you develop a mindset for success? The biggest key is to surround yourself with others who have a "millionaire mentality," and limit your time with those who have a "minimum mentality." We'll talk about what this means and how to do it in part two of this article.
Jennifer Herndon is a home based business consultant who has a passion for helping you attain your personal and financial dreams. Read this article in its entirety at http://www.JenniferHerndon.com.
Jennifer teaches a combination of intense personal development training and powerful step-by-step instruction on how to start your own online business. This approach eliminates the fluff and allows ordinary people to achieve personal and financial success in record time. Take inspired action now by claiming your free Million Dollar Desire CD here.
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