Your Attitude is Showing

Your attitude is very clearly identified every time you write.

Don't think you can hide it - it's there clear as day for anyone to see in your writing.

Like a great many other things that most people think no-one knows about them, attitude is very clearly identified every single time you write.

In some people it may be very clearly identified even when they don’t write.

A truly ingrained attitude will show in the face of anyone middle aged or older.

There is an old saying that "When you are young you have the face God gave you, when you are older you have the face you have created."

Haven’t you seen someone who you just know is the nicest person, because they have a “nice person” face?

They are not necessarily what we would call “good looking”, but they just look so pleasant.

And on the other hand, how about the person you don’t feel like approaching because their face has such a bad tempered, negative look to it?

These impressions are seldom wrong.

Over the years our faces conform to the expression they most wear!

Our attitude is showing!

In writing, attitude is apparent no matter what the age or appearance of the writer.

Here are just a few of the traits that appear in writing pertaining to attitude.

The optimist looks on the “up” side of life, the pessimist looks on the “down” side of life.

As happens in many other traits, the general English way of talking about something shows in the same way in writing.

The optimist writes upwards. Lines of writing slanting up to the right indicate the optimist.

Lines of writing slanting downwards show the person who looks on the gloomy, or "down" side of life.

When the ends on letters, as you take the pen off the paper, droop downwards this shows discouragement – a lesser form of pessimism.

T-bars slanting upwards also show optimism.

However t-bars slanting downwards have a special meaning which is not pessimism.

Enthusiasm is contagious. It draws people to you. It gets them involved. It infects them with whatever you are enthusiastic about. Leaders need enthusiasm to bring others on side.

For the trait of enthusiasm look for t-bars which are longer than they need to be to perform their function of crossing the t-stem. The longer the better.

Better yet, combine enthusiasm with optimism, in long sweeping, up slanting t-bars, and you are on your way!

Conversely there is the person who is irritable: look for dashes and jabs on the paper.

Perhaps the t-bar is just a jab – the heavier the more negative, especially if it also slants downwards.

Perhaps the i-dots are jabs. Or perhaps there are jabs and dashes appearing elsewhere in the writing.

This is an irritable person.

There are so many more traits to attitude. Far too many to write in this article.

But here you have some of the more important indications.

The beauty of attitude is that it is always in your power to change it.

To quote Charles Swindoll “The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day….”

So if you are feeling down one day, try Giving Yourself a Lift by writing several lines of up slanting writing.

It will have the same effect as going around with a smile on your face even if you don’t feel like smiling.

It draws you into optimism.

In fact try both – they’re free!!

Here’s to your ATTITUDE!

Your attitude is one of your "Success" traits.