CHAPTER 7

The Attitude of Passion

Attitude: The Fuel Supply for Your Fire

When you have a positive attitude as the fuel for your fire and passion, you have more of The Champion Edge working for you, and your payoffs are huge.

For example, in the early 1900s, one of the pioneers of modern-day psychology Dr. William James (Harvard University even named a building after him) proclaimed, “It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.”

Around that same time, French literary theorist Tom Blandi wrote, “Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and ...

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