Having the “right” mental attitude will determine whether you are a great networker or a poor networker. Each of us has bad days from time to time and on those kind of days, it’s best to have more alone or private time to re-coup, rest and release whatever is bothering us. But on our good days – watch out!!! Master Networker in the house!
Mental attitude starts from the second you open your eyes in the morning. Do you wake up saying, “Wow! Today is going to be a great day, I’ve got so many things to accomplish!” or do you tell yourself, “Ugh…I don’t want to get up, I want to sleep another 8 hours.” If the second one sounds like you, then starting right now, I want you to change your attitude. The free will each of us was given is for making the choice of how we want to perceive the world. You have a choice to see lack or abundance, poverty or wealth.
For over a decade I lived in Chicago and worked right off Michigan Ave. Within a 10 block length, there was everything material in the world you could possibly want if you had overflowing vaults of money. Yet, I met some of the wealthiest people I’ve ever met when I visited a family in Guadalajara, Mexico who lived in the poorest section of town. I shared a meal with them, a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken. The entire family talked and laughed and exuded a warmth of joy and sharing with each other – I had never seen anything like this in any family I’d visited in the United States. They were richer than anyone shopping on Michigan Ave in Chicago. You see, that family’s riches were in “relationship.”
I’ve mentioned it before about networking, it’s all about relationship. The money will come when you develop relationships. Sincerely desire relationships with the people you meet. This doesn’t mean you will be best friends with everyone or that you should ever feel used or victimized by anyone. It means sharing genuine friendship and caring. People need relationship in this world. It is too easy to walk past a person and not acknowledge their existence. But it all begins with the right mental attitude.
The right mental attitude means you have a choice each morning: you can choose to make an effort to have relationship with the people you meet or you can choose to be like many in this world and just pass them by. It is YOUR choice. YOU choose your attitude each and every day.
When you make the choice to have relationship with the people you meet, you will notice that doors will begin to open and avenues will become wider and easier to navigate. You will be introduced to the people you need to meet. By choosing to be in relationship mode, you have opened yourself up to opportunity and possibilities of all kinds.
There are many books available on mental attitude. Napolean Hill wrote several excellent books about positive mental attitudes. You should also watch the movie, The Secret. It gives some direction on setting attitude and creating goals. And for those who really feel stuck in their lives with perhaps many negative experiences, you too have choices. You can choose to stay where you are or you can choose to work on those past experiences by releasing them. The Delta Institute can help you do this through a clinically proven relaxation technique called EFT. But beware, for those of you who decide you are ready to change, it might not be easy, it will take commitment, other people may not like your positive change, and you just might start taking big steps in the direction of your dreams. Are you ready?