The Greatest Thought You Can Have

Visualize the best, be the best, and have a great attitude, and ultimately you really do become what you want to be. I know it has been heard and read many times before, but when considering the greatest thought you can have, it is not enough. What is enough though is when you make the action into a genuinely good habit that you live every single day, night and hour there is to live.

Once, I read a book by Uell Stanley Andersen or U. S. Andersen called "Success-Cybernetics", it was a cute, little seemingly meaningless motivational book with one little poignant question: "Is not winning just an attitude?" That one question impressed me because of the simple answer that question had to it and that answer was "yes". Because, no matter how many times you seemingly fail, when you let the failure become permanent, that is when it becomes more than an attitude. It is the same with permanent winning only on the other side of "permanent failure". Everything comes down to an attitude. Genuine loss and genuine winning are attitudes.

The greatest and the worst thought you can have are within an attitude. If they were not, and everything were external and reactive, then I could say differently and mean it. But, winning and losing all does come down to an attitude. So, when I say "yes" to the question above, it is not just optimism or reverse pessimism, it is reality for me. I see the next action to take after loss or win, the actual winnings and losses do not matter, but my attitude does even more than both.

The best attitude about everything is the biggest advantage of all. For those who depend on outer circumstances too much, it is the ultimate hidden advantage to them in life. But, that is the ultimate open secret of the "genuine winners club", having the best attitude about everything and letting there be a next time to succeed genuinely, instead of putting everything into one effort or faking it until you really do make it. Take it or leave it, to be real all the way through is the most powerful thing you can do win or lose because permanent losses come through a viewpoint and not a reality.

So, I end with part of a rather familiar story out of the Napoleon Hill book "Think And Grow Rich" about Edwin C. Barnes: "His appearance may have been that of a pauper, but his thoughts were that of a king." I could say more than that, but what is an attitude to you? Go find out.

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