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You can make a difference in the lives of everyone you meet during the day.  In fact, you definitely will make a difference for the people you see.  More specifically, for the people who see you.

If you think about the people who make an impression on you during your days, you will see some common traits.  They will be the people who connect with you.  Perhaps because they look you in the eye.  Perhaps because they engage you in a conversation. Perhaps because they interact with you in some other way.

But the way that they are when they communicate with you will make all the difference.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson said "Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying." Who people are being when they connect with you in some way makes all the difference.

A smile.
A frown.
Encouragement.
Complaints.

Each of these approaches makes a difference.

As you consider how you impact the people around you, you need only to consider how are you being as you meet them.

Smiling, using their names, encouraging them, and genuinely caring about them all increase your influence.

Complaining or looking like you've been sucking on green persimmons isn't going to connect you positively with others.

The good news is that you decide how you will be.

Will you make a positive difference?  It's up to you.

Earl Nightingale calls "attitude" the "magic word" and Nightingale-Conant devoted a whole self-help motivational tape series to this.

"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.  Attitude, to me, is more important than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do.  It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.  It will make or break a company... a church... a home.  The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we embrace for that day. 

We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people act in a certain way.  We cannot change the inevitable.  The only thing we do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude... I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.  And so it is with you... we are in charge of our ATTITUDES."

Author of "Attitude" -  Chuck Swindol

Sam Thompson,  PHH Mortgage Advisor - Helping you GROW your business!