Laziness Does Not Create Growth

Well as you can see by the massive void on this blog I’ve been lazy (well I’ve actually been very busy) but as far as this blog is concerned I’ve taken a lazy attitude to contributing towards its growth.

That got me thinking about how attitude contributes to growth in business and how that growth can in the beginning take a backwards step before moving forward.

So is a business growth attitude always a positive attitude ?

From Success Consciousness

Positive attitude helps to cope more easily with the daily affairs of life. It brings optimism into your life, and makes it easier to avoid worry and negative thinking. If you adopt it as a way of life, it will bring constructive changes into your life, and makes them happier, brighter and more successful. With a positive attitude you see the bright side of life, become optimistic and expect the best to happen. It is certainly a state of mind that is well worth developing and strengthening.

- In the face of adversity a positive attitude can be what sees you through.  However I think that being overly positive can blind you to the realities of your situation and sometimes the routes to resolving them

From shine.com

You are what your attitude is. The term “attitude” refers to our disposition or state of mind, whether to a specific event or to life in general. Is attitude the result of one’s perceptions? Yes, how we perceive an event or experience will largely determine the attitude we develop about future events and experiences. A positive attitude can help us journey through the rough patches in life. When an event affects us, it is we who give it the power to control the way we think.

- So, our experiences of business growth whether they be good or bad can affect how we perceive growth and whether its a good or bad thing.

From selfawareness

Avoid complaining and refuse to think in negative terms. Focusing on the positive things in life and business rather than going over everything that can and will go wrong is beneficial in many ways. It reduces the stress chemicals racing around in the bloodstream that wreak havoc on health and energy levels, and it also keeps the mind in a problem-solving zone rather than a problem-finding mode. Every time a complaint starts to rise to the surface of your brain or mouth, hold it back and replace it with something positive. You’ll soon discover that you’re much more efficient at work and at home.

- A mental positive attitude creates physical positive outcomes and our physical being is as equally important as our mental state in resolving a situation and creating positive growth. So if businesses created a more positive physical environment for working in, people would be more mentally and positively motivated to grow.

From gurusoftware

Each of us is made up of various physical, vital, and mental parts. There is our physical body and its organs, muscles, etc; the vital being with its sensations, emotions and feelings, and the mental part with its thoughts, memories, reasoning power, beliefs, etc. Somewhere between our emotions and our thought processing lie our attitudes — our emotional perceptions about ourselves, others, and life itself. Attitudes generally express positively and negatively. E.g., when I have good feelings towards my work or co-worker, my attitude is positive. When I feel reluctant to do certain things that are necessary, or show hostility towards certain individuals, then my attitude is negative.

- So the mental and physical states we create have a causal affect on our attitudes and therefore actions.  Maybe if I had been more positive towards this blog, it would have grown more ?

So, now I’m going to flip this on its head.  In the beginning of your personal or business growth you may have to find your place in this world, what you stand for, your voice, ideas and strategies.  This requires you to ask tough questions like Why ? How ? When ? If ? and can take you on a difficult journey along which your negative attitudes or responses to these questions can bring about positive outcomes and eventually attitudes.

Just look at some of the worlds most creative artist who have left us with a positive impression of art, or comedians who keep us laughing for years after they have gone. Digging deeper into their past you may find depression and hardship all of which brought about unbelievable and positive creativity given the right circumstances.

Sometimes you have to go backwards into negativity before you can go forwards into positivity.

I find that I am constantly dealing with problems which I may overlook or even avoid if I was overly positive and did not embrace or accept they existed or were coming.  Its the nature of being in business.  There is always some problems with a supplier, customer or piece of technology but you don’t have to make it worse by being negative either. It’s a tricky balance.

When was the last time you went backwards before you went forwards ?