I am currently attending the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Diabetes Educators in Las Vegas, Nevada. Luckily, the buildings are sufficiently air conditioned, as it is a balmy 102 outside.
Anyway, today I attended a session entitled, “Positive Attitude: The key to wellness and peak performance.” I was very pleased to hear the speaker tell us about all the benefits of a positive attitude. I was even more pleased to see a huge room filled to capacity with diabetes educators who wanted to hear about this important topic.
We heard that a positive attitude is contagious: be positive and those around you will catch on! We heard a fun mantra: “if it’s to be, it’s up to me.” And we heard that “action is power.” What we do is more important than what we know.
We learned that our attitude is based on our perception of something, and our perception is selective. We find what we’re looking for, so we need to focus on good things in order to find good things. “Frequently, what we expect is what happens.”
Interestingly (but not surprising), we learned that positive people live longer, get sick less often, heal faster, and succeed faster. Negative begets negative. Positive begets positive.
The speaker’s name is Wolf Rinke, and he has published a book called, Make it a Winning Life, in case you want to check it out.