Make Attitudes Your Allies
Bing Crosby, the popular Hollywood actor and singer of the forties and fifties, had made this song popular: ‘You don’t need to know the language to say you are in love’.
In fact, you don’t need to know any language to say ‘I like you’ or ‘I love you’ or ‘I envy you’ or ‘I like my job’ or ‘I am bored’ or ‘I am happy’, and so on.
People can communicate with each other even without making a sound. What we think shows through the way in which we act. Attitudes are like the mirrors of the mind. They reflect whatever you are thinking.
Professor Erwin H. Schell, who is an authority on human relationships, says: “There is something more than competence that creates accomplishment. It can be defined in a single word called attitude. When our attitude is right, we are at our best.”
I always choose a particular petrol pump to fill up petrol in my car tank.This service station is ordinary-looking but it is always crowded. I discovered the reason for it being crowded on the very first day.
When I entered the pump, an attendant signalled my position for parking and while I was waiting, he wiped the front windshield and said, “Today is a dusty day. Let me wipe the inside also.”
Quickly and efficiently he did his job, filled my tank, tested the air pressure and then while giving me the change, he also gave me a jovial salute. It was only a little courtesy but I never go to any other petrol pump because of this small gesture. It was obvious to me that this little service attracts customers, inflates the place’s profits and makes it so very popular. Now the owner is establishing more branches in the town.
Russell H. Conwell author of ‘Acres of Diamonds’ had once said,‘‘Money is important. It prints the Bible.”
Yes, money does help to build churches. It helps to build centres of justice. It also helps to create facilities for health. But what is puzzling about money is the backward approach using money to buy people, to corrode behaviour, to destroy values and degenerate culture.
Well, money cannot be harvested unless you plant seeds to grow money. Those seeds are services to others. Money automatically follows.When you grow correct attitudes, they become your allies.