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                                                                     Harvey Cohen, Ph.D.
     
    Attitude Is Everything!  
    It's a 'Cause and Effect' thing.

     
     
     
     
     
     
    Attitude (CAUSE) Success or Struggle (EFFECT)
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    Attitude Is Everything!  
    It's a 'Cause and Effect thing.
  • ATTITUDE  (Cause) = success or struggle (Effect)
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    Memo to Students:

    It's not you that attends classes, retains information and takes exams. It's your attitude, dressed up in your body, that does all the attending, retaining and exam taking.

    Your attitude is the energy, yes......energy, that decides how much value you will receive from all of your endeavors. Your attitude decides how confident you will be, not  circumstances. Your attitude makes up your mind about how successful you will be, not circumstances.

    Your attitude is not something you are born with. It is something you unconsciously pick up from others. Kind of  like you would unconsciously pick up an accent from your environment  without intending to.

    Uncertainty and struggle you may have as a student come  from someone else's thinking that you unconsciously took on. Like an accent.

    Much like an engine moves a car, your moving force is your attitude that has driven you to where you find yourself in life now. It really is an energy thing.

    You may make some adjustments to your attitude that does not serve you well only when you choose to think for yourself, not before.

    Your attitude as a student is a clue  to how you are preparing and directing your life. Your life today is a reflection of your attitude. An attitude tune-up couldn't hurt.

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    Attitude Is Everything! 
    It's a 'Cause and Effect thing.
    ATTITUDE (Cause) = success or struggle (Effect)

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    Memo to Sales professionals:

    As a sales professional it is important for you to realize that you are not a victim of the economy or a victim of competition, even though, because of conditioning, it may seem that way. You are a creature of habit.

    It's your attitude, that is as tenacious as any habit, that decides how successful you will be, not the economy or competition.  That's why there are those that prosper even in the lousiest of times, and there are those that struggle even in the best of times.  Attitude/Habit. 

    Your attitude contains; your self-concept, your self-imposed limitations picked up from others, the manner in which you are trained, conditioned, yes....hypnotized, to relate to life's various situations. It's all there, programmed in the background of your mind, waiting to react to all circumstances.     

    It's your attitude that will reveal or conceal greater life-enriching ideas and opportunities, not anything else.  Luck has nothing to do with it. There is no such thing as luck, good or bad. Nothing in the universe happens by luck or by accident. Cause and effect rules.  Remember?

    You've heard it a gazillion times; 'Attitude is everything.' Everything? You bet.

    There are countless creative ways to overcome any situation regardless of limiting outward appearances. But of course you already know  all that or forgot that you know  that. An attitude tune-up couldn't hurt.

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    Attitude Is Everything!  
    It's a 'Cause and Effect thing.
  • ATTITUDE  (Cause) = success or struggle (Effect)
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    Memo to Job seekers:

    Looking for a greater career opportunity? Hope to be in the right place at the right time? Hoping to be  lucky? 

    Actually,  success in reaching your career goals doesn't come from being at the right place at the right time or from luck, even though tradition and culture reinforce those notions. 

    Personal success and fulfillment come from one's attitude that intuitively reveals ideal ideas and opportunities whatever they are doing, wherever they happen to be, whenever they happen to be there. Surely you are aware of the many impressive and  'untraditional', 'off the wall', 'outside of the box thinking' successes.

    To get a handle on this 'attitude' thing is to empower yourself in ways that are not available to those waiting to be at the right place at the right time or hoping to be lucky or depending on the economy to get better.

    In the most remarkable manner the job or greater career opportunity you are seeking seeks you. Your attitude is the magnetic energy, yes....magnetic energy, that decides if you will be drawn to  or repelled from your ideal goals and desires, not circumstances, not luck.

    Your attitude is like a laser, zeroing in on experiences that best mirror your state of mind, your expectations. A narrow-minded 'woe is me' attitude, by its very nature, will not be aware of creative ideas and opportunities outside of its limited perception. But of course you already know all that or forgot that you know that. An attitude tune-up couldn't hurt.

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    Attitude Is Everything
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    ATTITUDE (Cause) = success or struggle (Effect)

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    Subject:  Weight Loss

    The idea that diets don't work is  common knowledge.  Even  the frustrated masses that keep going from one diet to another know, from their own experience, that diets promising weight loss easily and permanently just don't work. 

    In a most bazaar way, even those companies that know diets don't work still market products that they say will work. You don't really believe the random success stories on TV, do you?, Still, the pursuit for the perfect diet continues.  Finding the Holy Grail might be easier

    Desiring to lose weight is usually linked to the belief that; it would make you feel better about yourself to lose the weight you want to lose.

    However,  have you considered that, perhaps, you first must feel better about yourself before you can easily and permanently be your ideal weight? Or for that matter, any goal you wish to achieve, huh?

    Perhaps feeling better about yourself is just feeling more empowered about your ability to lose the weight you want to lose easily and permanently.  It's an attitude thing. Your attitude about your weight is the issue, not the weight itself. Your attitude about  your weight defines who you believe you are in relationship to  weight considerations and the culprit of food.

    Even though everyone knows that diets don't work, the diet industry is booming like never before, even though they know that diets don't work.  It's like there is an agreement between diet companies to keep people thinking it's their product that will work even though they know it doesn't.  Next year their product will be 'New. Improved, Better, Advanced, Easier payments.

    The diet industry grooms their customers to always be customers. IF not for their company's product, then to have the customer try another company's product. Sooner or later it makes the rounds again. Going from one company to another with a different name or a Newer, Improved, Better, Advanced version. The diet industry counts on  perpetuating customers, and products for weight loss that just do not work. And they know it.

    Your attitude about 'weight', promoted by the force of advertising, brought you to the place you find yourself now.  Maybe still looking for the perfect 'weight loss' gizmo.

    Your attitude is a magnetic energy, yes....magnetic energy, that decides if you will struggle or you will be successful in any of your pursuits, including losing the weight you want to lose.  After all, there are those that eat anything they want, as much as they want,  and are always their ideal weight. 

    The next time you go on a food diet include a diet of ideas that support an attitude of confidence in your innate ability to be your ideal weight easily and permanently.

    Actually, you can go on a diet of self-empowering ideas without going on a food diet. An attitude tune-up couldn't hurt.

    The Optimism Factor- The absolute essential element for getting the most out of life. Could be the only self-help book you will ever need self-help book. Could be.

     

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    Attitude Is Everything!  
    It's a 'Cause and Effect thing.
  • ATTITUDE  (Cause) = success or struggle (Effect)
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    Memo to Parents: 

    It's not unusual for parents to automatically, without thinking, take on the attitudinal behavior of their parents and become what their parents were to them, and so on and so on.  That's neither good or bad. It just is. How is it for you?

    Even if you desire to parent in a more open-minded, more positive direction than your parents resistance to change is in play. Tenacity is your greatest asset.

     It's the sum total of your attitude that takes you over and decides how you will behave as a parent.

    A conscious parent is aware of choices available.  They can choose to maintain an attitude that doesn't serve them well, although I don't know why they would, or they can choose a more patient, more understanding, more empathetic, more open-minded attitude.

    A conscious parent knows that an attitude that is  less than patient, less than understanding and less than empathetic, that is narrow or close-minded, is a habit picked up from others and is vulnerable to self-empowering, more reasonable ideas. They can choose to mold their attitude to relate to life in greater open-minded, less stressful ways than their role-models.

    Attitudes can be adjusted to better fit the needs of parents deciding to re-think their thinking. Updating one's thinking is a good habit.

    An attitude that is anchored in ideas that are in harmony with greater self-worth and limitless possibilities is magical. But of course you already know that or forgot that you know that. An attitude tune-up couldn't hurt.

    The Optimism Factor- The absolute essential element for getting the most out of life. Could be the only self-help book you will ever need self-help book. Could be.

     

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    Attitude Is Everything!  
    It's a 'Cause and Effect thing.
  • ATTITUDE  (Cause) = success or struggle (Effect)
  • Memo

     

    Subject:  Relationship;

    It's not you that is in a relationship or desires to be in a relationship. It's your attitude, behaving as you, that is relating and desiring.  It's your attitude that goes before you revealing what you think of you.

    Your attitude is the energy, yes....energy, that brings into your life   the people that reflect the value you place on yourself. To compromise your desires just to please someone else brings others into your life that expect you to compromise your desires. Hello!

    You will find that people treat you the way you treat you. No one comes into your life that is not a reflection of your self-identity.

    Your self-critical and self-judgmental nature is the reason you have people in your life that criticize  and judge you.  If it's not one thing it's another. It's not luck, not the stars, not circumstances. It's you.

    An attitude of  neediness attracts relationships to keep you needy. An attitude of confidence and self-appreciation attracts fulfilling and supportive relationships that appreciate you at the level you appreciate yourself. Logic rules.

    Your attitude decides if  you will be attractive and interesting, not your looks.  Your attitude is a window into  your soul. But of course, you  already know that or forgot that you know that. An attitude tune-up couldn't hurt.

    The Optimism Factor- The absolute essential element for getting the most out of life. Could be the only self-help book you will ever need self-help book. Could be.

     

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    Attitude Is Everything!  
    It's a 'Cause and Effect thing.
  • ATTITUDE  (Cause) = success or struggle (Effect)
  • Memo

     

    Subject: On Healing  and Wellness

    You think it's you going through each day doing what you are doing, going for your treatments and appointments? Nay, not so. It's your attitude that goes through each day reinforcing ideas of hope and/or ideas of hopelessness, ideas of anxiety and/or ideas of joy, ideas of lack and/or ideas of plenty, ideas of success and/or ideas of struggle, ideas of loneliness and/or ideas of completeness.

    It is important that you understand that your attitude is the energy, yes....energy, that supports or resists   any treatment, prescription or attempt for positive change.

    Doctors and therapists understand that someone's attitude   participates in their wellness. Doctors and therapists know the value of  one's  attitude in relation to healing and recovery.

    As a patient or client, are you better off with an attitude of hope and positive expectations or an attitude that unconsciously and habitually express doom and gloom? Figure it out for yourself. It's a no-brainer.

    You are not born with your attitude  towards  life. An attitude  that expresses fear, limitation, vulnerability, helplessness, for sure, come from someone else.  Your worrisome attitude  towards any of life's challenges  may be ready for re-evaluation. 

    Your attitude is an energy that feels through you.  An attitude of concern is not the same feeling as an attitude of confidence. And what you feel has a way of becoming real.

    Yes, wellness is better served with an attitude of hope and positive expectations.  Your doctors and therapists know it. You know it too or forgot that you know it. An attitude tune-up couldn't hurt.

    The Optimism Factor- The absolute essential element for getting the most out of life. Could be the only self-help book you will ever need self-help book. Could be.

     

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    Attitude Is Everything!  
    It's a 'Cause and Effect thing.
  • ATTITUDE  (Cause) = success or struggle (Effect)
  • Memo

     

    Subject:  Aging

    A 20/20-ABC TV report found that the number one reason for the longevity of healthy, enthusiastic, mentally alert, and physically active men and women over 100 years of age is; an optimistic, hopeful attitude. Not diet, not drugs, not exercise. The evidence is overwhelming.

    It's not you that is aging. It's your attitude, an aspect of yourself, that decides how you will age and how you will grow older. Actually, it's how much you bought in to ideas about aging from; family, friends, teachers and media, that decide your process for aging.

     Your attitude towards aging is reflected in your day to day experiences in some way.  

    Family history and culture play a significant part in one's attitude towards aging. However, attitudes are not written in stone. Attitudes are unconsciously learned and accepted, and/or consciously constructed.

    The quality of life depends not on what happens but how you react to what happens. Your reactions are built in to your attitude. What you expect, you get. Your joys and pleasures in life are a reflection of your self-worth, not someone or something, even though it may seem that way.

    A narrow-minded attitude is denied ideas of greater life-enrichment that are outside their narrow-mindedness. But of course, you  already know that or forgot that you know that. An attitude tune-up couldn't hurt.

    The Optimism Factor- The absolute essential element for getting the most out of life. Could be the only self-help book you will ever need self-help book. Could be.

     

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    Attitude Is Everything!  
    It's a 'Cause and Effect thing.
  • ATTITUDE  (Cause) = success or struggle (Effect)
  • Memo

     

    Subject:  Happiness

    Happiness does not come to you. It comes from you. That's just the way it is. A person, place, or thing does not make you happy, even though it may seem that way.

    To think that someone or something is responsible for your happiness is one of the great misunderstandings of life.  Sometimes it may take a life-time or two to figure it out. Sometimes it may take the wink of an eye. Once figured out,  you are empowered in ways that will astound you.

    Happiness is a byproduct of an attitude that habitually relates to life with positive expectations, and a sense of wonder, love and  appreciation for one's self. Sounds kind of hokey? Maybe. 

    An attitude that relates to life with positive expectations and a sense of wonder, self-love and self-appreciation is not just a nice way to be, and it is, but what you are dealing with is an energy, yes......energy.

    Your attitude brought you to where you find yourself in life now.  It's your attitude that touches and affects everything about you.  Yes, your attitude is an energy that reveals or blocks greater life enrichment and greater happiness.

    A narrow-minded, victim-minded attitude, a 'woe is me' attitudinal habit picked up from others, will always find someone or something to be unhappy about. If it's not complaining and bitching about this.....it's complaining and bitching about that. Attitude/Habit.

    Be happy with yourself and who you are and happiness follows. It's not rocket science. But of course you already know all that or forgot that you know all that. An attitude tune-up couldn't hurt.

    The Optimism Factor- The absolute essential element for getting the most out of life. Could be the only self-help book you will ever need self-help book. Could be.

     

    Online eBook for immediate access  $12.00
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     Attitude Is Everything!  
    It's a 'Cause and Effect thing.
  • ATTITUDE  (Cause) = success or struggle (Effect)
  • Memo

     
    Subject: Helping professionals 
    Doctors, Therapists, Counselors, Coaches, Alternative practitioners 

    As a helping professional, you  know the value of a having a hopeful attitude for yourself and for those  you serve.  It would certainly be helpful if patients and clients were to know the part their attitude plays in their well-being.

    The Optimism Factor is a gateway for clearly understanding and actualizing the awesome and powerful energy, yes.....energy, of an optimistic, hopeful state of mind.

    The Optimism Factor contains processes for transforming even the most 'gloom and doom, nothing seems to help' patient's attitude, into a more compelling focus for healthy positive change. The Optimism Factor is an ideal prescription  for self-empowerment.  It's an attitude tune-up.

    You can  use The Optimism Factor as a guide for  implanting ideas of wholeness into your treatments and sessions, and as a resource for conducting your own 'Optimism' classes.

    The Optimism Factor- The absolute essential element for getting the most out of life. 

     

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