The Difference Maker- attitude- John Maxwell notes

 Bismillah.

I'm reading The Difference Maker by John Maxwell with one of my teammates. See below for notes from the book. I believe John Maxwell's reflection below is the best summary of the book-. Maxwell advises the importance of leveraging a positive attitude and explains how to deal with 5 Attitude obstacles in this book.   

"Attitude is important. It is so important that is truly is the difference maker. It isn't everything, but it on thing that can make a difference in your life."

How to make your attitude your greatest asset:

1. Take responsibility for your attitude
2. Evaluate your present attitude
3. Develop the desire to change
4. Change your attitude by changing your thoughts
5. Develop good habits
6. Manage your attitude daily

Dealing effectively with discouragement-->

1. Get the right perspective
2. See the right people
3. Say the right words
4. Have the right expectations
5. make the right decisions

  Get the right perspective (remember discouragement is temporary)

• take a good look  at the whole picture
• take a short look at the problem (focus on solutions)
• take a close look at yourself
• take a long look at successful people
• take wide look at the possibilities

Change

1. you must make a commitment to pay the price for change
2. change must happen within you before it can happen around you, and
3. its never too late to change

Problems:

Perspective on problems:

• problems are everywhere, and everyone has some
• our prespective on the problem, not problem itself, usually determines our success or failure
• there is a difference between problem spotting and problem solving
• the size of the person is more important than the size of the problem
• problems, responded to correctly, can actually advance us forward

Fear:

• Fear breeds more dear
• Fear causes inaction
• Fear weakens us
• Fear wastes energy
• Fear keeps us and other from reaching our potential

How to handle fear?

1. Admit your fears
2. Discover the source of your fears
3. Realize your fears can limit you
4. Accept normal fear as the price of progress
5. Convert fear into desire (Roger Babson, "If things go wrong, don't go with them")
6. Focus on things you can control
7. Give today your attention- not yesterday or tomorrow
8. Feed the right emotion and starve the wrong one

Failure: 

How to profit from failure?

1. Change your attitude
2. Change your vocabulary (failure isn't failure if you do better the next time)
3. Pay little attention to the odds
4. Let failure point you to success
5. Hold on to your sense of humor
6. Learn from your mistakes
7. Don't lose your perspective
8. Don't become too familiar with failure
9. Make failure a gauge for growth
10. Never give up

"Success each day should be judged by the seeds sown, not the harvest reaped." - John Maxwell