The Power of A Positive Attitude: Your Road To Success

by Roger Fritz, Arthur R. Pell

Attitude affects every facet of our lives?from the way we handle stress to how we communicate at work. The way we view difficulties and setbacks can make the difference between success and failure. Roger Fritz has devoted his career to helping people overcome obstacles and achieve their goals by changing their outlook on life. In The Power of a Positive Attitude, he shows you how to develop a deeper understanding of the effects of your attitude and how it influences not only your performance but also the results others achieve. With The Power of a Positive Attitude, you can learn how to: ?Turn mistakes into assets ?Understand the do's and don?ts of dealing with your boss ?Overcome your own negative attitudes ?Build up your self-confidence ?Adopt the 10 characteristics of successful leaders ?Deal with overachievers and listen more effectively ?Improve morale and avoid doubters ?Sharpen interpersonal skills ?Conquer burnout and stress. Life-affirming and authoritative, this invaluable audiobook will empower you to face life and work with joy and confidence.

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction, Reference

112 pages, Paperback

First published June 9, 2008

Reviews

[Author Sherry · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a nice book for scoops on positive leadership

[Vamini Shah]

The book provides a good insight towards how to be positive even when one is low in their corporate life. Good insights and useful methodologies.

[Harithsa Vishruth · Rating 5 out of 5]

There is only one word I can say, LEADERSHIP.
Every word and page in this book is so good that each insight you can get in order to build a company or people skill is completely sublime.

It is a good read. It is a little book but the words are so mature to understand. Very powerful book to read if you want to build your character and change yourself. Keep in mind these 7 traits, SROSIAC (Self-Esteem, Responsibility, Optimism, Steady, Imagination, Awareness, Creativity).

To end my review about this, I would like to write the final words of the book here,

"Attitude is the scale on which we balance our strengths and
limitations. Outside circumstances are less important in the long run than our inner view of our selves."

Attitude is everything and also having positive attitude is a charm. Build upon your character with EQ. When you have goodness in your heart, life never lets you down. It is going to be hard but once you reach your level, you will live forever by leaving being your legacy of the greatest significance.

[Sharang Limaye · Rating 3 out of 5]

A me-too-ish SH book, right from the title (inspired, obviously, from more successful books) to the content that's all over the place. The generic title is a ruse to draw in the gullible, who only discover upon buying the book that it's a very basic document on the do's and don'ts for a corporate career, and not the motivational read they were expecting. The author makes a super-lame effort to bring in some connection to the 'positive attitude' bit at the very end. Of course, its a case of 'too little, too late'. I am still going with 3-stars because some parts about succeeding professionally are genuinely on-the-mark. It's actually a tad mysterious that the publishers didn't market this as a corporate success book. Perhaps it would have helped find a bigger audience.

[D U N Y A]

"الظروف الخارجية أقل أهمية من رؤيتنا الداخلية لأنفسنا على المدى البعيد."

"التوجه الإيجابي = التركيز على الاستجابة للحدث بدلاً من الحدث ذاته."

"ما يحدث لنا هو أقل أهمية مما نجعله يحدث."

"Learn how to learn then learn more."

[Rania · Rating 3 out of 5]

انت بصغر حجم ايمانك
تكبر شكوكك
بصغر ثقتك بنفسك
تكبر مخاوفك
بصغر امالك
يكبر يأسك
وقد تجعل السنوات بشرتك تمتلئ بالتجاعيد,ولكن التخلى عن الحماس يصيب روحك بالتجاعيد . صامويل اولمان

[Anuradha Sowmyanarayanan · Rating 4 out of 5]

All human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes. – Arthur Carnegie



The book THE POWER OF A POSITIVE ATTITUDE (Your Road to Success) by Roger Fritz is a book that pours in a lot of information on having a positive attitude. It advantages, effects, outcome, along with the ways to develop and implement is thoroughly dealt in the book.

It’s a handy book with 112 pages smartly sectioned as ten chapters brings positive attitude as light and leverages for a road to success.

Attitude is a way of thinking or feeling about something and is usually reflected in behavior.

A positive attitude involves having a positive mindset and thinking about the greater good irrespective of what the situation is. It helps you to accept your strengths and weaknesses and stay resilient. A positive attitude is instrumental in academic and professional success.



In this book PAQ, LVP, tips to overcome negative attitudes, characteristics of a successful leaders, exercise to assess performance priorities, ways to improve the abilities to care, dependable guidelines to minimise negative consequences of conflict. How to disagree without being disagreeable, test your stress level, list to examine the recovery from burnout, essential personal attributes and many more gems add extra shine to this treasure.



Dr. Fritz was a prolific author of over 63 books on management development and personnel motivation/ self- help. He produced 25 audio albums, and edited three video training series. His columns in weekly newspapers and monthly national magazines reached millions of readers providing a continuing influence on how individuals can increase their effectiveness on and off their job.



There are about 5 points of suggestions on CHANGE THE WAY YOU FEEL ABOUT YOURSELF are simple yet stunning and sure to lead you to become a positive influencer.



I quote “Communication is as much attitude as it is technique” highlights the author while imparting the necessity for a positive attitude for effective communication. He also presents a five point tip for it to be constructive.



How would you rate as a team leader? Here the author creates a quiz focusing on the 10 qualities and ask the readers to rate. In the same way, 10 questions on Interpersonal relationships are also given for the readers to examine themselves. This will work wonders to improve one self.



In one instance it was interesting to read the history’s greatest military leader’s valuable lessons. In an another context, author emphasis the words - “For success, attitude is equally as important as ability’ – Harry F. Banks and insists to work on the ten areas where coaching is most needed as stated by Franklin C. Ashby and Arthur R. Pell in their book Embracing Excellence



The author shares with the readers the list of aspects on generation gap found by a Harvard study. The book is definite to leave a mark in the lives of the readers, this is quite evident in the column dealing with – REJECTING SUGGESTIONS WITHOUT CAUSING RESENTMENT

Throughout the book the author has inserted fine, diligent examples of real life situations and experiences gained out of it. This is sure enough to encourage readers to practice positive attitude.



Finally remember these words: ‘You cannot tailor make the situations in life, but you can tailor make the attitudes to fit those situations before they arise.” Zig Ziglar

[Debomita Dutta · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book touches a lot of key factors on how you can develop a positive attitude in workplace and business, and how to get the maximum out of it. This book is not only a good read for leadership roles but is an extremely vital resource for any budding talents who needs to be more sharp and decent in their day to day work routine and anyone who thrives value and respect in their workplace. Not we all are born decision makers, born leaders but we all have something that can influence others. Capitalizing those things to move ahead can be a calculative task which needs a lot honest vision, observance, practice and unlearning before you learn new. Success have definition that you knit up for it and everyone have their own pair. This book is a goldmine which will make you think of how important is a positive attitude and how it effects the people around you for better eventually making up a win win situation.

[Rimjhim Kumari · Rating 5 out of 5]

Book is best for youth,teenagers and all age groups.It helps us to strong our attitude towards our life. It tell us that the other name of difficulty is the opportunity,only our attitude decide it. Optimistic kind of people see opportunity in problem and pessimistic kind of people see difficulty in problem.Only our attitude choose one of them, if attitude is positive we see opportunity and if attitude is negative we see difficulty.This book touches a lot of key factors on how you can develop a positive attitude in workplace and business, and how to get the max. out of it. Not we all are born decision makers, born leaders but we all have something that can influence others. This book is a goldmine which will make you think of how important is a positive attitude and how it effects the people around you.

[Polyn Shih · Rating 2 out of 5]

Essentially "Don't be sad, be glad! Don't be lazy, work hard! Don't be negative, be positive!" for like 100 pages. It's titled "The Power of a Positive Attitude" but tells you nothing about the power of positive attitude other than a two-page anecdotal intro. On that note, it gives little to no evidence about the actual merit of a lot of its advice. It tells you what you already know, tries to motivate you with lazy anecdotes, gives you unrelated data. Really, you come out of reading this book no more knowledgeable than when you came in. At most, you'd be a little more motivated after reading the whole barrage of repetitive change-your-perspective advice. There's a lot of better material on this topic elsewhere.

[Patricia N. McLaughlin · Rating 2 out of 5]

The full narration makes this audiobook even duller. Derivative of business gurus Peter Drucker, Anthony Robbins, and Brian Tracy, the book is full of cliches and trite expressions, posing as a primer for leaders looking for easy answers to common business problems. The text includes lots of simplistic do’s and don’ts with very little discussion and too few stories about the people who illustrate the principles in practice.

[Soumen Sadhu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent self help Book! Encouragement, motivation, moment of self introspection and great quotes are sprinkle everywhere. While i was reading this book I found my self surrounded with positivism everywhere in my mind body soul and it was a spellbound moment for me for last 30 days. It gives me a feeling like........i was reading this excellent book for last 4-5 months.

[Waris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not much to learn just some thoughts on how a positive attitude can affect you and the people around you.

The book is filled with examples and questions about yourself and after you answer those questions to yourself, Then you can look in which category you're in.

[saravana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best book for positive attitude at all cost

I like how to see the problems in different views and turn the same into opportunities. All said in this book are true. Need to follow if want to be successful in life.

[Bittu Davis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Author started with importance of positive attitude and its benefits. Explained workforce and how to deal with issues in a positive manner. Loved reading it.

[Shruti · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ideal for upcoming managers and Leaders.
Focuses on Positive attitude towards workplace success.

[♡«Annesha»♡ · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book provides several major factors on how to develop a positive attitude in day-to-day life, and how to utilize them.

[Crystal Dazzler · Rating 4 out of 5]

Helped me a lot

[Zaya · Rating 3 out of 5]

My rating: 🐰🐰🐰/5
Format: library hardcover
Cover Art: 🥕/5
Title: 🥕/5
My review:
🐰So, much useful information here but also there were a few bits that I had previously learned from other self help books.
Challenge: JanuaryRW2024
Date Read: January 4, 2024🐇

[Ajab Amin · Rating 1 out of 5]

kinda boring in my pov

[Nirbhay Thakur · Rating 3 out of 5]

okayish

[Ali Ansari · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great pick for improving and changing up your attitude.

[Viral Shah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good read, practical examples and some exercises to understand the chapter and about yourself.

[Jyoti Ranjan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great books to read if you want to become better Leader, Manager or excel in professional life.
All the explanation provided by author is straight forward and easy to understand.

[readwithpankti · Rating 4 out of 5]

"The Power of a Positive Attitude" by Roger Fritz

🔷 Genre :
Self-help

This book, you will develop a better understanding of the effects of your attitude. Equally important, it will help you see more clearly how a positive attitude influences not only your performance but also results achieved by others around you. Why is this important?

Three reasons:
1st, Attitude affects how you look, what you say, and what you do.
2nd, It affects how you feel, both physically and mentally. And
3rd, it affects how successful you are in achieving your goals.
What could be more basic?

🍁 Attitude shows many things, but one of its most important and prominent reflections is your confidence.
Confidence, in turn, is determined by four factors:
1st, what limitations will you accept?
2nd, what choices do you make?
3rd, what will you learn from your mistakes and your successes? And
4th, who determines your growth rate?

🍁 Freedom lovers are those who, confronted with several options, don’t want to commit themselves to just one. They want their options always open. And dependents are people who trust others more than they trust themselves.A perfectionist may come from a family in which mistakes were criticized. A dependent could have been told they made bad decisions and finally stopped trying.

🍁 The life lesson is, don’t take your attitude for granted at anytime, at any age, in any place.

❤️ Attitude is the scale on which we balance our strengths and limitations. Outside circumstances are less important in the long run than our inner view of our selves.

[Pari Sumbaria · Rating 5 out of 5]

☘️ This book is an outstanding practical book to show how a Positive Attitude can positively influence and enhance your personal life and professional life.

☘️It helps us to show how to be positive in every sitution and if you are facing any issue how to deal it with positivity.And how that positivity is going to affect you.

☘️While reading this you come across with so many awsome quote by well know personalities.One of my favourite among them is "All human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes."

☘️Also there are questionaire which help you to see where you stand when its comes to positivity and also let you know how to tackle that .

☘️I would really recommend this book for people who have low self-esteem,it will surely bring you a positive change in there mind and which will leads to positive change in there life

[Any Length · Rating 2 out of 5]

As far as good advice goes, this book is chock a block full of it.
AS far as you make the advice happen it's a bit thin.
Not good enough to tell people to be empathetic, tell them how that looks. Those who have no empathy, don't know what's missing and don't know how to be empathetic.
Not good enough to tell people to keep their head in a crisis and to suffer fools patiently. Tell us how to suffer fools when they give a person the pips.
Although I agree that a positive attitude is powerful, this book did little to help me get one.

[Nico Prahoveanu · Rating 2 out of 5]

O care care sinceră sa fiu nu m-a day pe spate.
Autorul ne împărtășeste noțiuni simplu cum ar fii sa nu întârzii la lucru pentru a face o impresie buna. Slăbuț din punctul meu de vedere, nu a fost nimic care sa îmi capteze atenția.

⭐️⭐️

[Jim · Rating 5 out of 5]

Roger's books , all of them are really great. I knew him personally for a few years until his death from cancer. He was an intelligent man who never held back on his belief and views. He wrote so many books and continued to write until in his 80's. His mind was sharper than most people in their 20's. He put his heart and soul into every book he wrote and was a very successful man who loved his family more than life itself.

[Avani Sharma · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an amazing self help book by Roger Fritz, it tells you the deficiencies in your attitude towards your boss, you coworkers, your employees, your friends or even with people you met for the first time. It takes a small survey for almost in every chapter and based on the survey, tells you about yourself and your attitude towards the people around you and how to fix the negatives. I haven't finished the whole book yet, but I can tell that this has helped me.