Mats Offerlind’s Weblog WhoRunsYourLife

Every minute of every day you’re exposed to things, events, situations, people, etc. and you have the opportunity to evaluate all of these, based on your own experiences. Most of these events, etc. you may consider to be of a relatively insignificant nature and therefore, deserving of little or no attention. But there are ALWAYS situations which have the possibility of enabling you to do something very special – regardless of who you are and whether you think you’re someone who gets opportunities.

I’m sure that, like most other people, you’re naturally disinclined to change your old behaviour and actions. You may be complacent and think that all changes are for the worse. You may wonder why you should change something you’ve done for many years and been comfortable with. You’ve built yourself a world in which you’ve adapted yourself to your life and what you’ve achieved, without reference to your dreams or your youthful visions of what could be. Your security in what you’re doing now is what’s most important and any change will be a threat rather than an opportunity.

Security is considered to be the one thing you most aspire to as a human being, but it’s also one of the most inhibiting and restricting things you can aim for! After all – what is security? Is it when you just do what you know how to do and don’t dare to do what might be the very thing that will make your life what you really want it to be? Who knows, if it came, it might be what you were really waiting for. But would you recognise it anyway?

Answer: You’ll recognise it only if you have an open mind!

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I often get asked the question “What specific things do you do in order to keep motivated, positive and maintain as good an attitude as possible?”

My simple answer is that I act as I speak, and every day I read or listen to something positive to do with personal development. I’m also very concerned to try to keep out, as much as possible, all the negative and destructive things that flow around out there and which are constantly trying to get into our super conscious minds.

For example; my wife Tina and I were listening to a speech given by Mia Törnblom, one of my colleagues in this business of personal development and motivation. The theme for the speech was strengthening your self-opinion, and it was very positive.

Our conclusion: Be sure to surround yourself with as much positive input as you can get, try to close out all the negative input and be with people who are positive for you. With this behavior you will attract much more positive energy than negative energy.

Please remember that personal development and motivation need to be maintained in order to keep them up to date. Just as flowers wilt through lack of water, so we ‘wilt’ if we don’t constantly nourish ourselves through our conscious efforts.

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Many people have asked me to give my personal description of ‘attitude’ and while I think I have done it before, repetition doesn’t hurt.

It’s how you position yourself in relation to yourself, other people, and situations that pop up in your daily life. Put another way, it’s about your reaction to the things that occur.

I hope that with this explanation you can start to make improvements in your attitude and through that, get closer to being a winner in your life. However, don’t forget that you can’t be a winner in your own life if you don’t also help others to do the same in theirs!

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