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Summary of Attitude That Attract Success

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I. BACKGROUND OF THE BOOK

Title: Attitudes that Attract Success
Data of Publication:
Originally published in the USA by Regal Books, a division of Gospel Light Publications, Inc.
Ventura, CA 93006. All rights reserved.
Published (2005) in the Philippines by
OMF Literature Inc.
776 Boni Avenue
Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila www.OMFLit.com Reprinted --- 2005, 2006
ISBN 971-511-899-2
About the Author: Dr. Wayne Cordeiro is senior pastor of New Hope Christian Fellowship in Honolulu, one of the nation’s fastest –growing churches. He is also the president of New Hope International, a ministry dedicated to developing emerging leaders to plant twenty-first-century churches. The author of Doing Church as a Team. Wayne has planted churches in …show more content…

Some people stopped growing years ago. We might not bury them until they have stopped moving, but they really died years ago. You can change your attitude. When we refuse to change and resist God’s leading, life can become pretty miserable. Nevertheless, many times we won’t change until the pain of remaining the same becomes greater than the pain of changing.

Failure is not when you get knocked down. Failure is when you refuse to get back up. Don’t hang around the swamps of despair. They will only skew you attitude and impede your resilience. Learn to bounce back quickly.
Our attitude will either protect us or defeat us in the midst of storms. Let us develop our attitude well.

Train your eyes to see what is good was emphasized on the third chapter of the book. All our lives, we have trained our eyes to see what is bad. From an early age, we have been training ourselves incorrectly. We get up and read the morning newspaper over breakfast, getting our minimum daily requirement of bad news. On the way to work, we stop by the newsstand and by the latest issue of a newspaper so we can find out what’s wrong with the world.

We have to retrain our eyes. The reason is this: Whatever we’re looking for is what we will see. That’s how God made us. If we are looking for something good, we will see what is good. If we are always looking for what is wrong with people, what we will see is everything that is wrong.

One way to cultivate staying power is to

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