Attitude can be the difference between success and failure. Why do some projects fail, and others succeed? If I’m one hundred percent committed to a project, my efforts will match my commitment. But, if I am not sold on the project, chances are I am not going to go above and beyond.
Attitude is more than just your perception of a project; it is a mindset that can lead you to success. When you have a positive attitude and see things as more open and doable, you will notice a change in your rate of success. When you have a positive attitude, you do not see weaknesses, you instead see an opportunity for growth. With a positive attitude, challenges turn into opportunities. With a positive attitude I do not see the competition as the enemy, I see them as a potential partner or a potential case study so I can improve. A positive attitude prevents you from sulking when you fail; it inspires you to learn from the mistakes and gives you the desire to bounce back from that failure. When you have the right attitude, you are more open to learning and your mind is ready to achieve because you can think clearer.
Let’s use hall of Fame baseball player Derek Jeter as our case study to bring home my point. Over the course of his career, his batting average was .310; he batted 11,195 times got 3,465 hits and was only one vote shy of becoming only the second individual to be unanimously elected to the Hall of Fame. He won a total of five championships and is considered the winningest player of his generation. Also, he is the only player in NY Yankee’s esteemed history to play his entire career for the team and get three thousand hits as a Yankee (Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, and Mikey Mantle, all considered to be one of the top ten players in history, never accomplished this feat). What an incredible accomplishment.
Now let us take Derek’s statistics and frame it differently and show you how a negative attitude would look at his statistics. He came to the plate 11,195 times and only got 3,465 hits. He failed 70% of the time he came to bat. He played for twenty years and only won five championships, losing 75% of the time. See what I did there, I took a Hall of Famer and made him a failure simply by changing my attitude on how I viewed his success.
Success is within your reach, and it may happen at a lower or slower rate than failure, but it is more satisfying in the end. You cannot achieve success without failure, and the key is attitude. Be positive, recognize challenge and threats as opportunities, see failure as growth, and you too can become a Hall of Famer in your career.
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