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IMPORTANCE OF ATTITUDE

There was a man who made his living by selling balloons at a fair. He had balloons of many different colors, including red, yellow, blue and green. Whenever business was slow, he would release a helium filled balloon into the air. When the children saw the balloon go up, they all wanted one. They would come up to him, buy a balloon and his sales would go up. All day, he continued to release a balloon whenever the sales slowed down. One day ,the balloon man felt someone tugging at his jacket. He turned around and a little boy asked, “ If you release a black balloon, would that also fly? ” Moved by the boy’s concern, the man replied gently, “ Son, it is not the color of the balloon , it is what’s inside that makes it go up”. THE same principle applies to our lives: It’s what’s inside that counts. And what’s inside of us that makes us go up is our attitude. William James of Harvard University said, “ the greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”