Ecological Human Services Management

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference," according to Winston Churchill. But if a big difference is a bit more than you want to take on right now, a slightly better attitude is a good place to start. If perhaps you think that changing your attitude won't really make any difference, consider this from William James. "The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes." It's worth mentioning that Norman Vincent Peale agreed. He said, "Change your thoughts and you change your world." Just how much change you want is up to you. What is stopping you from that attitude change James and Peale think are so important? Mahatma Gandhi had this advice for us, "I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet." I think the point is to figure out who in our lives is feeding the attitude we have and making sure their dirty feet are not pulling us in the wrong direction. I suspect that attitudes are contagious and it's pretty easy to b