#5: Attitude is a Choice

The Game Changer Life

Dave Anderson

Education, Self-improvement, Business

4.9 • 550 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2017

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

While you cannot control what happens to you, you can control your response. In this episode, Dave helps conduct an "attitude audit" so you can evaluate and adjust your attitude where necessary, and avoid the people or things who can influence it for the worse.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Game Changer Life podcast. I'm Dave Anderson.
0:19.2	Got a question for you.
0:20.6	Does your attitude rock or does it
0:23.9	stink? You know, you own it. You are responsible for your attitude. Now, there are bad things,
0:32.5	negative things, unfair things that can happen to you. There are terrible things people can do to you. And you
0:39.1	maybe can't control that, but you do get to choose your response to it. And you never want to
0:44.2	give up that freedom. You never want to give it up. You know, you can't control what happens to you
0:48.6	or around you, but you do get to choose how you handle it. And there's immense freedom in that ability to decide. I'm going
0:56.7	to tell you something, the quality of your choice greatly determines the quality of your
1:02.0	career, the quality of your life, the quality of your happiness, the quality of your relationships.
1:06.9	People that have lousy attitudes and make lousy choices. They choose to see themselves as a victim.
1:12.6	They choose to see the problem, always the problem, rather than the opportunity, right?
1:18.6	They choose to believe they're owed something that they're not, instead of being grateful for what they have.
1:23.6	And so, you know, they're miserable.
1:25.6	But the fact is, whatever your attitude is now,
1:30.0	you can make it better. And so if it stinks, it's your fault. All right, it's your fault.
1:35.7	The good, that's, and I always, that's not bad news. When I say it's your fault, that's good
1:41.3	news because if it's your fault, you can fix it. Okay, but somebody else's fault, you can't control that. But don't think that if something is your fault, that's good news because if it's your fault, you can fix it. Okay, but somebody else's
1:44.5	fault, you can't control that. But don't think that if something is your fault, then oh, then that's bad news. No, it gives you an opportunity to fix it. So the good news is you can fix it. All right, you can fix it. And you got to stop blaming. See, you can't walk out of a meeting saying, oh, man, that meeting gave me a bad attitude, or my manager gave me a bad attitude, or my coach gave me a bad
2:03.5	attitude, that meeting gave me a bad attitude, or my manager
2:01.2	gave me a bad attitude, or my coach gave me a bad attitude. That is absolutely impossible,
2:05.9	ridiculously stupid thing to say. Why would you want to give somebody that much power over your
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