The diseases of the attitude
Ahmed Khaled
CEO @ Unleash?? We help CEOs build personal brands that outlive their titles ??Author ??Award Winning Podcast ??
Till today, all physiologists haven't discovered any external treatment or cure for those diseases.
The only cure for those diseases is self internal healing.
Those diseases can literally turn your life into chaos and paralyze it fully.
Your mind is part of the invisible, transcendent world of thought, feeling, attitude, belief, and imagination.
Let's confess that "Negativity is normal" and it's a big chunk of life.
But we have to learn how to handle it.
If you live in the best castle in the world, looking around to the colorful stuff, enjoying the blessing of your sight, and sudden darkness attacked the castle without any alarm.
All the colorful stuff will turn into one color "black".
The same happens with negativity, you could've all the blessings around.
But you won't be able to see one bless even, because you don't fortify yourself from negativity.
A positive person:
A person who's well equipped and shielded to receive all kinds of negativity with a clear filtration process.
Our mind is in a constant battle with negativity but the stronger one who controls it cognitively.
Jim Rohn said it's a war between evil and good, the same battle happens between positive and negative.
There are 6 diseases that are affecting ourselves unconsciously mentioned by Jim.
1-Indifference
Indifference means "Careless", and if you don't care, then be ready as this is the first signal for fertilizing and planting the seed of "Neglect".
I found that neglect is the enemy of all kinds of Self greatness, it lowers "self-confidence, self-esteem, self-reliance, and self-worth".
The key phrase here "A week of neglect costs a year of repair" (Jim Rohn)
It's a very simple formula, imagine a person is perceived as a "person who neglects" and this person decided to change this habit, How long it takes to change the people's cognition about him?!
surely, it takes decades.
How can we avoid "Indifference disease"!?
To overcome this disease, you need to learn how to put "everything you got" into "everything you do" in one direction.
This will allow you to quickly open up into opportunity and if the direction is not right, it will quickly disclose to you that you ought to be doing something else.
Take a decision and go at full speed. You can handle the road bumps along the way. Don’t be a spectator or sit on the sideline. Too many people are content with watching from the security of indifference instead of being an active participant.
2-Indecision
Indecision means simply the art of "hesitation and confusion."
Personally I diagnose this disease as a mind's earthquake, always ending up with destructions and failures if it keeps shaking.
This disease could be transmitted through human-being by air.
And it's a very rapid infection especially people who are in leadership positions, easily they can transmit this disease to their team.
The key phrase “The man of a decision cannot be stopped, The man of indecision cannot be started." "Napoleon Hill"
Most people are playing safe, crawling beside the wall, doing no mistakes and avoiding any sort of embarrassments, but this will neither serve the world nor you.
What is the cure for "Indecision diseases"?!
"Massive action is the cure-all", the best solution for this disease is taking massive action.
Right or wrong, you'll not discover, until you take a direction to liberate yourself from this hesitation then let the experience teaches you, learn from it, record the watch-outs, this will put you in your power position to be decisive next time.
3-Doubt
Doubt means "suspect and being uncertain about something"
Sometimes we doubt our ability to perform because we have a lack of self-confidence.
This disease is spreading wildly inside due to the lack of knowledge, lack of ability, lack of trust, lack of performance and lack of self-confidence.
The key phrase "We learn from failure, not from success!" (Bram Stoker)
What is the treatment for "Doubt"?
The best way to be healed from any doubt, become an "Active searcher", searching is the enemy of any doubt, search for the info that you have a doubt.
This search could be through the assistance of someone who knows and could be also through reading or whatever way could be.
If you become a good searcher, I guarantee you that your doubts will totally vanish.
4-Pessimism:
A dangerous deadly disease and could literally kill you, it opens all doors for external diseases.
Always looking to the (bad side, problem side, and the difficult side).
On this side, the concept is always finding reasons not achieving results.
He doesn't try to figure out what's right, he tries to figure out what's wrong and when he finds what's wrong, he is delighted how ugly it is.
The same person looks out of the window, he doesn't see the sunset, he sees the specks on the window.
He is always blaming all-around "Circumstances, people, life and everything around" except himself.
The poor pessimist leads to an ugly life, always saying "Checking all the reasons so I can't be done"
What is the medicine for that killer disease " Pessimism"?
The only way for this disease is to enrich your immunity with positive thinking, always look to the bright side of any challenge, not the dark side allowing yourself to grow with this challenge.
Don't look for the empty part of the glass and begin to glimpse the full part of the glass.
The key phrases " You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down†(Charlie Chaplin)
Let's agree that it's not easy to process it, but trust me it's working if you build a conscious effort when the strikes knock the door, just remind yourself with the bright side and don't miss the chance to grow with it.
5-Complaining
I do believe that this disease is very malicious.
Most of us are infected with it without knowing, and that disease expands in each and every cell in our brains.
The interesting part of this disease, that people don't care about your complaints.
How can we discover and deal with this "Complaining" disease?!
Don't judge and invest emotions when you face any challenge, just program your mind to be very assertive and direct your effort rightly.
Take full responsibility and be the final backstop of any difficulty.
There is a big difference between the people who work by sight, judging based on what they see, and those people who work by the mind, those are the people who can see the invisible and they are always seeking to find opportunities to grow through it.
Key Phrase here "If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.†"Maya Angelou"
6-Over Caution
named this disease as the "anti-growth" and sometimes "anti-ambitious" diseases.
He is always moving into the corners with zero calculated risks,
Life with these diseases is deteriorated automatically.
Everything we do in our life is risky, but what makes us different is how do we think about it, so we can react based on our thoughts.
Our mind is a product of our beliefs.
Is it possible to get rid of that anti-growth disease "Over cation"?
The answer is obvious "Yes", but how can we do it?!
Don't ask for security, ask for adventure.
It's better to live 30 years full of adventure than 100 years safe in the corner, so live the experience and be brave to embrace it.
It's not important how long you live! what important is "how you live".
The Key phrase "There is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that is less the one you are capable of living". (Nelson Mandela).
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