Your Attitude

My Dear Rishi,

I enjoyed talking to you on the weekend.

.Recently, I got a gift from a complete stranger. A 70 year old gentlemen in Bangalore airport gave me a small book called "Finding Your Strength in Difficult Times By David Viscott. He had a book marked one of the pages and requested me to read. Our entire meeting lasted for probably less than five minutes.  Today I am sharing this with you.....I really enjoyed reading it and thought this is really powerful.

Your Attitude

By David Viscott

Your attitude shapes your world.

When you intimidate others, you live in a fearful world.

When you are sad, you bring out the hopelessness in others.

When you act like a child, you invoke parental attitude.

When you act like parent, you inspire inspire rebellion and helplessness.

When you act dependent you invite others to abuse you. They resent you for smothering them.

When you act controlling, you lead people to use you. They think you have it coming for treating them unfairly.

When you act competitively, others want to beat you for putting them down.

Your attitude creates obstacles that you have to overcome and all your lucky breaks. No one wants to help a braggart, and everyone wants to repay the person makes him or her feel good.

The person who makes you feel good is free, and has no need to control or own you, can admire your achievements,without envy, and can be giving without expecting anything in return.

Your pattern of choices, becomes your attitude. When you chose to hold in feelings you become bitter.

When you are expressive, you become free.

Being free is letting others be free.

In this world you get what you give.

Rishi, it does not matter how much education you have or money you have, having a great attitude matters son. I wish you are free to be yourself , allow others to be free and in this lies your freedom, freedom to choose and see the world as is.

I love you Rishi, and I miss you very much..

Lots of  love, hugs and kisses,

Daddy.