How can you use a positive attitude to attain bigger goals?

Mahinda Herath
4 min readAug 25, 2021

The amount of goals you desire to and attain is a direct reflection of your mindset. Your goals and accomplishments will be grander if you are hopeful. Don’t waste your time improving your team’s performance; focus on changing your attitude. Start to believe that you are completely good, endlessly smart, and strong. Focus on those positive feelings more and more, and your attitude will improve. It can influence your team’s attitude and result in the accomplishment ambitions of your teammates’ goals.

It’s relatively simple: the amount of goals you desire to and attain directly reflects your mindset. Your goals and accomplishments will be grander if you are hopeful. Your ability to find a solution to any difficulty you’re facing is entirely based on your attitude. A negative attitude hinders our ability to solve problems, whereas believing that a solution can be found and that things will most certainly work out for the better frees the mind to receive creative ideas and creative visions. Using threats and pressure to force a team to achieve a goal is doomed to fail.

Rather than exacerbating your team’s worry and desperation, focus on changing their mood. You are allowing your staff to soar as you free attitude from the constraints of negativity. It would be best if you first improved your attitude before you can inspire others to do so. People you interact with will instantly feel better as yours improves. Looking inside yourself for any self-doubt about your ability to accomplish the desired end is the first step toward improving your mindset for higher goal achievement.

This stage of the process of improving one’s attitude is critical. If you ignore it, others will reflect you the negativity that you have deep inside. Do you genuinely believe that nothing can stop you from achieving absolute success? Don’t waste your time trying to improve your team’s performance. Your team will be better served if you keep your hands off them until you’ve gotten yourself into the internal, emotional form you’ll need to lead them to greater heights.

You’ve taken the first big step toward solving your attitude problem by recognising that you have one. If you believe others have an attitude problem, that’s the quickest way to detect if you have one! Here’s something you probably didn’t know about relationships. What you see in others reflects what you’re doing yourself! Suppose you encounter those who are unmotivated, irresponsible, indifferent, dishonest, or complex. In that case, you can safely assume that a part of yourself is acting in the same way.

Open up your mind and take an honest inventory of your character and personality until you can SEE how you express what you are criticising someone else for. It’ll be there for you. The second stage is to let go of whatever negative feelings you may have. This is how you go about it. Consider your bitterness to be a PATTERN YOU’VE LEARNED. It’s a style of feeling, thinking, expressing, and performing that you’ve taken up along the way, most often as a child when you start to act like the people you spend time with.

Begin to accept the new, improved attitude you desire within that place. Begin to have a sensation of boundless potential. Begin to believe that you are completely good, endlessly smart, and strong. Fear and anxiety, which inform you that success might not be feasible, can be seen as learned habits. Fill the space between yourself and you are acquired, limiting attitudes with feelings of boundless opportunity. Focus on those positive feelings more and more. Your attitude will improve, favourably influencing your team’s attitude and resulting in accomplishing ambitions.

Written By: Mahinda Herath (BSc, MSc, PhD (reading), Dip. in Psychology, AMPC, Professional Counselor, Scientist, Extension Officer)

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Mahinda Herath

Professional Counselor, Motivational Speaker, Corporate Trainer, Scientist, Extension Officer (BSc, MSc, PhD (reading), Dip. in Psychology, AMPC)