Choose your own attitude

It is not possible to choose your own attitude, when everything goes wrong at work: 


This story begins with a young roofer who shows up for work early in the morning. Cold rain is planing down from gray clouds. The roofer would like to be somewhere else entirely, but he has a job to do. While the icy raindrops cut his cheeks, he turns his face up to the clouds, grinning: 'Is that all you have to offer? Spit it out!'

The roofer understands that the 'choice' is his. By 'choice' means that he himself is responsible for the way he reacts in relation to what life offers him in his path. No one else can choose for him. 'You have to choose where you want to be as soon as you get up in the morning,' says Bear, one of the fishmongers at Pike Place Fish. 'I make a conscious choice every day.'

Trapped in an unpleasant situation
We often feel like prisoners in an unpleasant or stressful situation and our reaction shows it:

'I can not help it! I look like my father!'

'When will management stop subjecting us to all these changes?'

It is easy to justify our behavior by blaming others, or by pretending that it does not matter to others. But our position does not operate in a vacuum. When you CHOOSE YOUR ATTITUDE from moment to moment, it affects not only yourself, but also everyone else you come into contact with. Behaviors, encouraging or inhibiting, spread like viruses through offices, schools and homes.

Choose a HAPPY attitude
Some have mentioned that they would like to rephrase CHOOSE YOUR ATTITUDE to 'Choose a happy attitude'. They are the ones who want to use FISH! as a mood lifter towards the employees they don't think are making the right attitude choices.

Of course, the behavior that stands in the way of good customer service and drains colleagues must be taken care of. But FISH! after all, it's not about everyone now just having to put on the same, happy, professional smile. FISH! just suggest you make your own choice and don't try to monkey around with anything else or anyone else. When you realize that you alone are responsible for your attitude, you gain amazing strength. Once you are clear that you are the only one who can CHOOSE YOUR ATTITUDE right now, then you can decide whether to keep it, learn from it, adjust to it, and perhaps choose a more satisfying attitude.

Unhappy just in case
Think of the little kids who just decide to be naughty. No matter what is going on around them, they are unhappy. Then suddenly they decide to be silly. And suddenly they can't suppress a smile and everything becomes a game. Your choice determines everything. If you try to spot the worst, you will find it everywhere. If you try to spot the best, you will see possibilities you never imagined.

It is simply a choice
There is a lot we humans cannot control - the weather, other people, economic downturns, management decisions. The only thing we can control is our own reaction to these and other challenges. Sometimes we have to face the change. Sometimes we accept. The fishmonger Justin says:

'It is simply a choice.' But living it out every day, in every situation, requires something extra. 'It must be recreated every day.'

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Michael Meinhardt
LEADERSwarehouse.com 
☎ +45 71 92 55 63 ✉ info@LEADERSwarehouse.com

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