Rich Lawyers Have A Winning Attitude by Ojijo

(Extracted from Ojijo's Rich Lawyers: Officers of Court & Owners of Businesses. ISBN. 978-9966-123-25-1)

Rich Lawyers Have A Winning Attitude 

Having a mindset of success is very important, especially if you have a goal or a list of goals you want to achieve in life. But what exactly is this mindset of success that people are talking about? Is it something that we're born with? Is it something that can be learned?

Honestly, others are naturally inclined towards success. I guess you could say that they were already born with a mindset of success. However, that doesn't mean that the rest of us have to content ourselves with being mediocre. We too can adopt this winning mindset. Read on to find out how!

Rich Lawyers Think Positive

Achieving success involves a lot of positive thinking. Don't set yourself up for failure. As backward as it seems, a lot of people actually end up setting themselves up for mediocre performance. These people are too afraid to hope for the best because they just don't believe in themselves.

Don't be like the rest of these folks. Instead, think nothing but good thoughts. Do that and you're one step closer to success.

Rich Lawyers Give It Their All.

The success mindset requires me to give your best effort in everything. Why try at all if you're not willing to give your 100%?

Think this through very carefully. Whatever you do and in whatever industry you are in, you must give it your all. Success requires nothing less than this. If you think this is too intimidating, then perhaps you're not ready for success yet.

Take Jane, for example. She wants to win the singing contest; but she's too afraid and ends up singing too softly for the judges to hear clearly.

Rich Lawyers Think Long-Term.

If success is your goal, then you must be able to think long-term. You must be able to see the big picture. Given this, you also have to understand that some things are worth sacrificing.

For example, if your goal is to lose weight by the end of summer, then you ought to consider sticking to one thin slice of cake instead of your usual three.

Having the mindset of success is the first step to achieving all your goals and ambitions. Once you've got that down pat, the rest will inevitably follow. Just remember to keep your thoughts positive, to give it your 100% and to look for the bigger picture. Be consistent with all three and you'll soon find yourself ticking away at your goals checklist!

Having the mindset of success is the first step to achieving all your goals and ambitions. Once you've got that down pat, the rest will inevitably follow.

Rich Lawyers Think “I Can”

Positive attitude is an ‘I Can’ attitude. Positive attitude is inspiration.  Positive attitude inspires me to act towards achieving my goals. Positive attitude makes me to act; and action brings results; and results create achievement; and achievement generates happiness; and happiness is the essence of living-the sole purpose of living. As Les Brown asks, ‘if I am not happy, then what else is there?’ Positive attitude is very important to being successful and happy.  Thinking and acting with a positive attitude can do more than anything else towards getting me whatever I want out of life, because those who are in positions to make things happen for me will want to be around me, and want to work with me to help make my dreams a reality. ‘If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.’ wrote Maya Angelou.

Having a positive attitude in whatever I do will make things easier, and even more enjoyable. ‘The only disability in life is a bad attitude.’ said Scott Hamilton. The right attitude will set the right atmosphere for the right response. My attitude determines what I see; indeed, my attitude is how I see things.

My attitude either makes me happy or miserable; sad. ‘Happiness is an attitude.  We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong.  The amount of work is the same.’  said Francesca Reigler. My attitude determines how I handle what happens to me. Without a doubt, the problem is not the problem; the problem is my attitude towards the problem.

Every obstacle has an opportunity, and every opportunity has an obstacle. ‘Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution’ Norman Vincent Peale understood. And Hugh Down wrote, ‘a happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather, a person with a certain set of attitude.’ ‘Zig’ Ziglar the American author, salesperson, and motivational speaker was accurate when he said, ‘Your attitude, not your aptitude, determines your altitude.’ My attitude determines how well I do whatever I do. Certainly, attitude kills more mountain climbers than altitude.

Abundance is, in large part, an attitude. Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich, says, ‘Having a positive mental attitude means that your actions and thoughts further your ends; having a negative mental attitude means that you are constantly undermining your own efforts.’ Great effort springs naturally from great attitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, ‘What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.’ An unknown author wrote, ‘God chooses what I go through; I choose how I go through it.’ And Kahlil Gibran wrote; ‘Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens’  Today, I can alter my life by altering my attitudes. Out of lemons, I will make lemonade.

Today, I will cultivate positive attitude. Positive attitude makes disabled people to become successful actors, actresses, celebrities, singers, world leaders, and many other famous people. It is positive attitude that made Alexander Graham Bell to invent the telephone, though he had a learning disability. It is positive attitude that made Edison, despite his deafness, to inventor over 1,000 patents and his inventions are in various fields used in our daily life, including incandescent lamps, electric bulbs, transformers, telegraph, and countless others.

It is positive attitude that made Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had Polio and was in a wheelchair, to be elected governor of New York State and then elected President of the United States for 4 terms. It is positive attitude that made Francsico de Goya to become an internationally renowned painter, though he was deaf. 

When I have positive attitude, then like Helen Keller, I can be Blind, Deaf, and Mute, but still obtain university degree, author books, and lecture normal students; like John Milton, I can be blind, but still write the most famous epic, Paradise Lost; like Lord Horatio Nelson, I can have only one eye, but still command a naval force win crucial victories at Trafalgar in 1805 and the Battle of the Nile in 1798, during the wars with revolutionary and Napoleonic France; like Ludwig van Beethoven, I can be deaf, but still compose the most classical piano pieces; like Marlee Matlin, I can be deaf but also a stand-up comedian and an actress; like Sarah Bernhardt, ‘The Divine Sarah’, I can have an amputated leg, but still star as an actress. 

 Posted by Ojijo-Principal Partner, LawPronto (www.lawpronto.com); Joint MD, allpublicspeakers (www.allpublicspeakers.com); owner www.achibela.com, priceapp,www.luopedia.com, www.ajuoga.com- author of 31 books, performance poet, armature pianist, ICT and law firm management lawyer, public speaker on investment clubs, financial literacy and personal branding; and business systems consultant on business profiles, strategic plans, investment plans, financial projections, and marketing plans.ojijo@allpublicspeakers.com; +256 776 100059.