Hey, this is Richard Chansey. Welcome to Part 2 of Attitude, the Difference Maker on the

John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. If you want to get the notes for these three episodes

we're in the middle of, head on over to maxwellpodcast.com, forward slash Attitude, and click the bonus

resource button to download the notes. Now, here's Dr. John C. Maxwell with Part 2 of Attitude,

the Difference Maker.

Making your Attitude your greatest asset begins when you choose to have the right attitude.

And once that decision is made, the following steps will help you achieve an attitude that will be a

positive difference maker in your life. Let's look at it. Number one, evaluate your present attitude.

Sit down and evaluate what your present attitude is. Let me say something about what I am prone to

and perhaps you're prone to do when we evaluate something we don't like. They say that a professional

logger, if the logs have jammed in a river, what he'll do is he'll find a high point, maybe a

hill beside the river, and he'll get up there and he'll look at all the jam of the logs and we'll

try to determine where the log jam is. And then what he'll do is he'll go to where the problem is

and maybe take dynamite and blow up that issue right there and then the logs will flow. Where an amateur

an amateur person in dealing with logs will just start working on the first one and just keep working

and working and working and fixing. Many of them need to be fixed. I think sometimes when we

evaluate ourselves and we look at things that we do not like or things that are not right,

there's a tendency for us to over engage in a lot of activity. Let me just say something that I

think is very important. When I try to evaluate my weaknesses and when I try to evaluate things that

I come up short in, I spend a lot of upfront thinking time. When I talk about my thinking chair,

a lot of my thinking time is me sitting in the thinking chair working through issues that I need to

work through. And what I've discovered is a lot of good thinking time on the front, a lot of times

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