Attitude Management Skills – Check Yourself

Attitude is the way you act or react to a certain situation. Your attitude can open as well as close many doors for you. Your ability to have the best attitude in any given situation will determine your success.  Skills that can help with the management of your attitude can include anything from thinking before you speak, taking a deep breathe, counting down from ten when you feel your anger rising, and  reminding yourself of your goals and priorities and how a ugly attitude can deter them.

Attitude management skills have helped me to deal with very trying individuals in my classes who liked to disregard manners and etiquette. It has helped me to make the best out of a situation. I’ve learned not to stress over the things I can’t change, but to focus on the things I can. Skills I’ve put to use have allowed me to get the information I needed from someone or learn a lesson from an experience because I wasn’t held back by a skeptical or ugly attitude. For example, I had this particular teacher in high school Ms. X (this is not her actual name), and Ms. X would love to talk about how incompetent we were ,she would give punishment work for the most minuscule things; basically she was doing more trash talking then actual teaching. If I had let Ms. X attitude affect my attitude then she would have been right I would have failed and it would have been no one’s fault but my own.

Whether you’re aware or not, your attitude sets the tone for your day. If you wake up and say today is going to be the worst day, then most likely it will. If you wake up with a little optimism, then you open yourself up for good things and people to come your way.