And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development

Podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be.

I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols, and today you'll learn all about your attitude.

And if you're ready, we'll start the show.

Happy new month, everybody.

If it is a new month for you right now, you could be listening to this in two weeks or two years' time, for all I know.

But on day of release, it's a new month.

And it's a Friday as well, so you'll have my Friday bonus episode out this morning too, actually.

Maybe you're going to save this for the Mayday Bank Holiday Monday next week.

If so, happy Monday!

That's not a phrase you hear very often,

is it? Happy Monday. Aside from the band, obviously, it's usually happy Friday, isn't it? And that's our bandwagon I jump on. If you follow me on social media, you'll see my little Happy Friday posts.

But on Monday, it's always a motivational one.

I even email it out to people on my mailing list. You might have received one this week that said,

when a child falls down 50 times when learning to walk, it never thinks to itself, maybe I should

give up. And I do like reminding people of that.

Because our attitude towards things really is one of the biggest factors in whether we stick

at something long enough to get where we want to go. I once heard someone say that a bad

attitude is like a flat car tire and you're not going anywhere unless you change it.

Now, I don't normally like those slightly twee motivational sayings, but that one did sit quite well with me.

Because it reminded me of a quote that for some weird internet reason, people seem to think

Winston Churchill once said it, even though he didn't.

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