Warrior Coaching

Recently I’ve started a series of blogs which breaks down what Warrior Coaching is all about.   The blogs aims to share exactly how it helps individuals and teams break through barriers standing in their path and to do that I broke Warrior down into an acrostic word so we could explore it further.

You may have noticed last week that I started with W which stood for Winning Mentality.  If you missed it you can check out the blog here:
http://www.warriorcoaching.co.uk/1/post/2010/07/w-is-for-winning-mentality.html

Well A stands for the most important aspect of any individuals success.  A stands for Attitude.

It is why the home page of my website contains this quote at the bottom from from Thomas Jefferson.  Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

This is not new information to us, we hear it all the time.  However how many of us actually commit to investing in our attitude?  How many of us spend hours forging an attitude that has the strength to empower us to the level that we aspire to?  The sad truth is not very many.  We live in the information age where knowledge is deemed as power though that is not the case.  It is the application of knowledge which is power and only those with the right attitude are out there taking the appropriate action when it is necessary to do so.  And it is action which drives you forward which is why the Middle East claim that when you start moving, God shows willing.  They believe God gives them further power the moment they start acting on their goals and dreams.  Though they are also totally aware that to proceed action they need the right attitude as without it too many of us procrastinate.

My first ever day in Sales I was told that selling was 99% Attitude and 1% Ability.  I would say this was true of many areas and I have observed the proof many times.  How many of you would like to be fitter and know what you have to do, but don’t?  How many of you know what activity you need to do to get that next sales lead, but don’t?  How many of you know exactly what your dreams are, but are waiting for the right time to act?  Well tomorrow never comes.  Start developing your attitude today and use time more wisely.

And yes, Attitude is not as simple as positive thinking.  It is partly about positive thinking but it is so much more than that.  For instance if you are up to your waist in crap and you have a positive attitude then it means your up to your waist in crap and happy about it.  It hasn’t done anything to deal with the problem.  Many of us use PMA (Positive Mental Attitude) as a tool to try and mask the pain and hide the fact we’re unhappy.  This is not strength of attitude and will not help you succeed.  It just makes your boss happier to hire you because you complain less.

Start focusing on your attitude today as it is the single one thing that stops 99% of people achieving their goals.  Knowledge and information is worthless without the right attitude.

Next blog I’ll tell you what the first R stands for.

Keep up the Intensity

Dean