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    The Attitudinalists: The Happiest & Most Successful Employees In the World
    The Attitudinalists: The Happiest & Most Successful Employees In the World
    The Attitudinalists: The Happiest & Most Successful Employees In the World
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    The Attitudinalists: The Happiest & Most Successful Employees In the World

    By Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

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    All our lives, we’ve been looking for how we can be happy and successful at work and in life, when all along the answer is just there in the attitudes that we use in our daily lives.

    This explains why there are people who seemed to be already up there in heaven, but because their attitudes are yet so wrong, you will see them still ever complaining.

    On the other hand, there are people who seemed to be already down there in the dump, but because their attitudes are yet so right, you will see them still ever smiling as if everything is alright.

    To be happy and successful at work and in life, what we need are “RIGHT ATTITUDES,” not a perfect environment that can only come with the perfection of the heart and mind.

    Be one of the ATTITUDINALISTS! —“The happiest and most successful employees in the world!"

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRodolfo Martin Vitangcol
    Release dateJan 22, 2019
    ISBN9780463574034
    The Attitudinalists: The Happiest & Most Successful Employees In the World
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    Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

    RODOLFO MARTIN VITANGCOL spent his high school in the seminary, and worked his way through college, graduating with a BSC degree in Commerce majoring in Accounting at the Philippine College of Commerce.He worked with a foreign bank [Bank of America] for six years before pursuing a career in sales. In sales, he joined U-Bix Corporation and John Clements Consultants, and, for some time, also went into a build-and-sell business. After about six years in sales, he put up a training firm [FILIPINO SALESMASTERS CONSULTANTS which has now been changed into ATTITUDINALIST TRAINING CENTER] specializing in salesmanship, attitude, leadership, and customer service programs.In a span of 30 years now as a professional trainor, Mr. Vitangcol has already trained more than 200 companies to more or less 50,000 employees throughout the Philippines.

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      The Attitudinalists - Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

      The

      Two Basic Questions

      in Life

      FIRST BASIC QUESTION:

      Are you Happy? 

      Is happiness to you—‘MONEY’?  That if only people have all the money in the world, they are happy?

      But if it is ‘money,’ I’m just wondering why are there people who seemed to be already having almost everything in life, and still are not happy?  In the same breath, why are there people who seemed to be having almost nothing in life, and yet are happy? 

      Or is happiness to you—‘CONTENTMENT’?  That if only man can learn to be contented with what he has or what comes his way, he will be happy.

      But can there really be contentment in this world?  Does not the price of the gas continually rise?  And so do the rent, the tuition, the fare, the food, the electricity, and the clothes?  Is there anything in this world whose price or value does not increase with the times?

      "Will not your contentment today

      be your very own woes tomorrow?"

      For me, I define ‘HAPPINESS’ as:

      Seeing what you want to see

      For instance, YOU WANT TO SEE a government that is honest and caring, and indeed it is honest and caring—so you are happy.  For if it is not, you will be unhappy.

      YOU WANT TO SEE that ruthless criminal go to jail, and indeed he did go to jail—so you are happy.  For if he did not, you will be unhappy.

      YOU WANT TO SEE your children really do get serious with their studies, and indeed they do—so you are happy.  For if they do not, you will be unhappy.

      YOU WANT TO SEE your wife appreciating all the sacrificial efforts you are putting in to raise a most secure and happy family, and indeed she does—so you are happy.  For if she does not, you will be unhappy.

      Now since we may not all be the same in what we want to see in life, it follows that we also differ in the kind of happiness we want to experience in life.

      Thus—

      "What is happiness to me

      can be unhappiness to you;

      just as what is happiness to you

      can be unhappiness to me."

      Using this definition of mine on happiness, "Are you HAPPY?  Are you seeing what you want to see—both in your professional and personal life?"

      SECOND BASIC QUESTION:

      Are you Successful?

      Is success to you—‘BEING RICH’?  That if people are rich, they are successful?  And, inversely, if people are poor, they are a failure?

      But if it is ‘being rich,’ how come there are people who are already rich and still they say they are not yet successful.  By the same token, how come there are those who are poor, and yet they believe they are already successful.

      For me, I define ‘SUCCESS’ as:

      Getting what you want to get

      For instance, I need to drink because I am thirsty, and indeed I was able to drink—therefore I am successful in that particular need of mine.

      I want to travel to Japan, and indeed I was able to travel to Japan—therefore I am successful in that particular want of mine.

      By my definition, one need not be rich to be successful.  ‘The poor can be as successful as the rich, just as the rich can be as a failure as the poor,’ all depending on the nature and level of what people need or want to get in life.

      Hence, as we may not all be the same in the nature and level of our needs and wants, it follows that we, too, are not the same in the kind of success we want to achieve in life.

      Thus—

      "What is success to me

      can be failure to you,

      just as what is success to you

      can be failure to me."

      In using this definition of mine on success, "Are you SUCCESSFUL?  Are you getting what you want from your career and your personal life?"

      If your answer to the TWO BASIC QUESTIONS IN LIFE is in the negative, this book is for you! 

      The

      Proverb

      There is this one very popular proverb—attributed to Lau Tzu, the recognized Chinese founder of Taoism: 

      "Give a man a fish and

      you feed him for a day.

      Teach him how to fish and

      you feed him for a lifetime."

      ––––––––

      QUESTION:  Do you believe in this saying?

      One hundred percent of the people I had asked in my seminars answered—"Yes!"

      ––––––––

      EXCEPT ME!  And I will explain why.

      The proverb comes in two parts.  The first part is "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day,’ and the second part is "Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.’

      ––––––––

      In the first part—GIVE A MAN A FISH AND YOU FEED HIM FOR A DAY—I believe!

      I will explain my agreement through the following poem entitled The Stray Cat.

      [Note:  All the 10-stanza poems you will meet in this book are excerpts from my eBook—124 Soul Liberating Poems of Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol.]

      The Stray Cat

      THIS STORY HAPPENED WHEN I WAS A LAD

      about a stray cat there in our backyard.

      Oft hanging out there, she’s as if our cat;

      in fairness, though, she’s cute and kinda fat.

      ––––––––

      OH, DON’T FEED HER, SHE CAN LIVE ON HER OWN.

      How?  She’s good at catching birds on the lawn.

      Till birds do come around, she’ll never die;

      there in her paws her securities lie.

      ––––––––

      ONE DAY MY MOM TOOK NOTICE OF THIS CAT

      and thought of treating her like a spoiled brat.

      Day in day out, excess food to cat went;

      gotten so used, hunting birds cat forwent.

      ––––––––

      BUT THEN, ONE FATEFUL DAY SOMETHING HAPPENED.

      It told of what’s correct, what’s mistaken.

      It proved nothing could permanently glow:

      What’s boon today may be bane tomorrow!

      ––––––––

      WHAT HAPPENED?  WELL, MY MOM HAD HIRED A MAID;

      the things the maid should do, my mom all laid.

      But there’s one my mom forgot to tell her:

      Leftovers must go to the cat out there.

      ––––––––

      AND SO ALL LEFTOVERS WENT TO TRASH CAN;

      the cat waited but none to bowl did land.

      For four days straight that she had no rations,

      she could hardly stand up, all skin and bones.

      ––––––––

      THINKING OF IT—SO WHAT IF SHE’S NOT FED?

      She could simply go back to hunting bird.

      Sadly, the urge was not there anymore,

      and she’s no more as skillful as before.

      ––––––––

      THE NEXT DAY WHEN MOM CHANCED UPON THE CAT,

      how shocked was she that the cat looked all that.

      She raced to the kitchen, no time wasted;

      but it’s rather too late, the cat was dead.

      ––––––––

      TRULY, MY MOM SIMPLY CARED FOR THE CAT,

      except that her kind of caring fell flat.

      The once great hunter, living on her own,

      now dependent on grace of one person.

      ––––––––

      I GUESS SAME THING HOLDS TRUE WITH OUR CHILDREN.

      Just feed and feed, make them always depend.

      Do it as if it’s an endless heaven,

      so that when we leave, they’ll too meet their end!

      ––––––––

      To the second part of the proverb—TEACH A MAN HOW TO FISH AND YOU FEED HIM FOR A LIFETIME—I don’t believe! 

      It is not automatic that when you teach a man how to fish, he will indeed stand up and fish. 

      How many people have I seen—who do very well know how to fish—and yet are just sitting idly by, waiting for other people to do the fishing for them.

      How many college graduates have I seen—who  already are fit to find work—and yet are just bumming around as if waiting for companies to knock on their doors to offer them work that if no company knocks, they just rather remain as bums.

      How many salesmen have I seen—who have been taught well how to sell—and yet cannot sell, primarily because they don’t really go out in the field to sell, but just rather stay home and sleep, watch TV, or play.

      In a nutshell, EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON ATTITUDE! 

      A man with WRONG ATTITUDES in life, even if you teach him all the skills in the world, he is not listening to you! 

      But for a man with RIGHT ATTITUDES in life, even if you don’t teach him how to fish, but because he wants to live with dignity, he will stand up and find all ways and means to catch fish.

      In effect, what we really ought to be teaching a man are not SKILLS, more than RIGHT ATTITUDES ABOUT WORKING AND LIVING.  Skills are mere products of attitudes.  No attitudes, no skills!  It is the attitudes that will seek the skills, to the point that if they cannot find them, they create them!

      ––––––––

      Mendic

      The Mendic

      ACCEPT THERE’S NOTHING THAT LIFE DOES REQUIRE

      from morning we rise till night we retire

      that’s not dictated by our ATTITUDE.

      In our dreams, it yet rules with certitude.

      ––––––––

      SHOULD I BE EARLY TOMORROW OR NOT?

      My ‘attitude about work’ will tell that.

      Should I take a bath every day or not?

      My ‘outlook about hygiene’ will see that.

      ––––––––

      SHOULD I START SAVING MONEY NOW OR NOT?

      My ‘view about my future’ will bid that.

      Should I stay single as I’m now or not?

      My ‘view about marriage’ will show that.

      ––––––––

      WILL I VOTE IN THE ELECTION OR NOT?

      My ‘view about politics’ will state that.

      Should I join this religious group or not?

      My ‘view about God’ will reveal that.

      ––––––––

      OUR ATTITUDES DICTATE ALL OUR ACTION;

      they decide our final destination.

      As long as our attitudes never change,

      the behaviors they formed stay disarranged.

      ––––––––

      DUE TO THIS, I CALLED ATTITUDE—MENDIC.

      From two English words did the name I pick.

      MEN from mental and DIC from dictator.

      Attitude is our MENTAL DICTATOR!

      ––––––––

      ALL THAT WE DO—PASSES THROUGH OUR MENDIC.

      Every act we make, every thought we pick,

      each feeling we create—cannot be clicked

      without the approval of our mendic.

      ––––––––

      SORE TO ADMIT—OUR MENDIC IS OUR GOD!

      And this li’l god seems taller than Him God,

      for it’s our mendic that shall firmly hold

      if God does exist or he’s just a fraud!

      ––––––––

      THIS EXPLAINS WHY SOME DON’T BELIEVE IN GOD!

      Who told them so? None else but their li’l god.

      How many do think in our present age:

      It’s man who made God in his own image.

      ––––––––

      THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF MENDIC I HAVE FOUND:

      The Goodic and the Badic—I’ll expound.

      You have your mendic, as I do have mine;

      let us see if they’re the same—mine and thine.

      The Badic 

      PAUL YOUR FRIEND IS KNOWN FOR BEING SELFISH.

      At present, though, a good help is his wish.

      Question: Will you give help to Paul or not?

      Let’s see what your mendic will say to that.

      ––––––––

      YOUR MENDIC SAYS, "HE’S SELFISH.  WHY WILL YOU? 

      If he’s selfish, be selfish to him, too.

      Treat him in the same way he will treat you;

      you don’t want to be called a fool, do you?"

      ––––––––

      THE WORKERS’ PAY AND BENEFITS ARE LOW,

      the work you’re handling is quite risky, though.

      Question: Will you exert your best or not?

      Let’s see what your mendic can say to that.

      ––––––––

      YOUR MENDIC SAYS: "IF PAY IS LOW, WORK SLOW. 

      Granted you give your best, will your pay grow?

      Only they who’s making money, not you;

      you don’t want to be called a fool, do you?"

      ––––––––

      SEE! "IF YOUR MENDIC IS BADIC TRULY,

      yourself is your own greatest enemy!"

      Yourself being your greatest enemy,

      hard for you to succeed and be happy.

      ––––––––

      IF EVER YOU’RE CLIMBING UP THE MOUNTAIN,

      years passed, you’re still there at the ground terrain.

      It’s because when you feel like moving up,

      your mendic is right there to block you up.

      ––––––––

      THE BADIC IN YOU WILL SAY:  "WHY WORK HARD!

      Your pay is low, what’s there for a reward?

      Look at your co-workers, they’re all slackers.

      Don’t be the laughingstock.  Be no sucker!"

      ––––––––

      AND YOU BELIEVE IT!  CERTAINLY YOU WILL!

      Have your mendic born you any ill will?

      What will your mendic profit from lying:

      Your mendic and you are one in living.

      ––––––––

      THERE IS NO ESCAPE!  WE ALL HAVE MENDIC!

      As lil gods, they tell what we’ll do and think.

      Now ask yourself: "Is yourself—your own friend?

      Or to you the worst that ever happened."

      ––––––––

      THUS, IF YOU OFT HAVE THAT INCLINATION

      to blame just any for your frustrations,

      cut the act and bravely face the mirror:

      It’ is your Badic and nothing else more!

      The Goodic

      IN FAIRNESS, SAME EXAMPLES IN BADIC

      to show stark contrast to the two mendics.

      It is no joke to take them so lightly,

      mendics hold our very own destiny.

      ––––––––

      PAUL YOUR FRIEND IS KNOWN FOR BEING SELFISH. 

      At present, though, a good help is his wish.

      Question:  Will you give help to Paul or not?

      Let’s see what your mendic will say to that.

      ––––––––

      YOUR MENDIC SAYS, "IF HE’S SELFISH, YOU’RE NOT;

      tell me, what is the difference in that?

      Don’t return dark with dark, rather with bright.

      Help him, not that he’s friend, but it’s what’s right.

      ––––––––

      "YOU FELL INTO A WELL, CHRISTIAN BY FAITH;

      a stranger came and saved you from your fate.

      Later you learned the man is a Muslim.

      The hell you care! You are all praise for him."

      ––––––––

      THE WORKERS’ PAY AND BENEFITS ARE LOW,

      the work you’re handling is quite risky, though.

      Question: Will you exert your best or not?

      Let’s see what your mendic can say to that.

      ––––––––

      YOUR MENDIC SAYS: "YOUR PAY WILL NEVER GROW

      if you don’t give your best, I tell you so.

      You asked for a job, they gave you a job.

      You knew the pay when their offer you grabbed."

      ––––––––

      SEE! "IF YOUR MENDIC IS GOODIC TRULY,

      yourself is your greatest friend—the only!"

      Yourself then being your own greatest friend,

      take success out, life is yet a heaven.

      ––––––––

      IF EVER YOU’RE CLIMBING UP THE MOUNTAIN,

      just few years passed, your feet at top terrain.

      It’s because when you feel like giving up,

      your mendic is right there to pep you up:

      ––––––––

      THE GOODIC IN YOU WILL SAY: "DO WORK HARD!

      Drop all negatives, there’s full of rewards!

      Mind not low pay and lazy coworkers!

      Be an eagle, no other way better!"

      ––––––––

      AND YOU BELIEVE IT!  CERTAINLY YOU WILL!

      Have your mendic born you any ill will?

      What will your mendic profit from lying:

      Your mendic and you are one in living.

      ––––––––

      In one of my attitude seminars, one participant raised a somewhat sarcastic question—CAN YOU EAT ATTITUDE?

      His question implies that what our material world seems to be really needing today are some "concrete ways or means on how people can survive in these ever-worsening times.  Many people are getting hungrier and hungrier, and poorer and poorer every day.  What they need are real jobs, real food, and real money"—not some "uneatable concept as the attitude" that I’m ranting on in the seminar.

      This is how I answered him:  "No!  You cannot eat attitude.  Attitude is not and never will be a food for the stomach.  But this is what I can tell you.  If the attitudes you carry in life are extremely and continually wrong, a time will come—YOU WON’T EAT!"

      The

      Five Types

      Of

      Workers

      I Discovered

      The First Type

      Of Workers I Discovered:

      The Environmentalist

      I used the word ‘ENVIRONMENT’ to name this type of people because these people are products or puppets or victims of their work environment.  These are the people when their work environment is pleasant, they are happy and productive; but the moment their work environment turns unpleasant, they become unhappy and unproductive. 

      For instance, if the salary is good, the boss is good, the coworkers are good, the job is good—they are happy and productive.  Inversely, if the salary turns out to be not good, the boss—not good, the coworkers—not good, the job—not good—they become unhappy and unproductive.

      The very exact thing that will dictate whether they will be happy and productive or not at work is their WORK ENVIRONMENT.

      QUESTION:

      Is this you—an ENVIRONMENTALIST?

      If this is you, ‘hardly’ will you always be happy and productive in your work.  Why?  Because there is no such thing as perfect work environment!  There will and will always be something out there in your work environment—no matter how seemingly perfect it may already be—to be unhappy and unproductive about.

      The FOUR CHARATERISTICS of

      The ENVIRONMENTALISTS

      When the Environmentalists do happen not to like their work environment, their instinctive reaction is—TO RESIGN. 

      For instance, if they are not happy with their pay, they will resign and look for a company that pays well.  Having found one, they are now happy. 

      But over time, they found out that the pay is indeed good, but it seems the boss is not.  And so they resign again and look for another company that does not only pay well but does also have a boss they can find acceptable.  Having found one, they are again happy. 

      Sadly in this third company, they realized in time that the pay is good, the boss is good, but the coworkers are not.  And so they resign again. 

      They resign and resign and resign.  They are looking for a perfect environment.  If you are this person, stop it!  There is no perfect environment. 

      The perfection of your environment can come only with the perfection of your heart and mind.

      Not all disgruntled Environmentalists, however, do think of resigning.  Some just simply resort to CRYING AND MURMURING.

      And what do they cry and murmur about?—a never-ending complaints, frustrations, and heartaches. 

      At every break time, their favorite topics are complaints, frustrations, and heartaches. Why is the boss like this?  Why is our salary like this?  Why is our system like this?  Why are some of our coworkers like this?  Etcetera and etcetera and etcetera.  Even to their dying hours in their deathbeds, the last remaining words that will come out from their lips are yet complaints, frustrations, and heartaches.  And usually when they cry and murmur, ‘they bark up the wrong tree.’

      The boss asks in a meeting—Is there any problem?  Everybody’s quiet.  The boss asks again, Is there any problem?  Still, everybody’s quiet.  But hardly had the boss stepped out of the room than everybody started blabbering out their complaints and heartaches to who else but to each other.  Barking up the wrong tree!

      The Environmentalists are MANIPULABLE.

      The Environmentalists are like kids.  You want a little child to stop crying?  Give the child a lollipop.  You want the child to cry again?  Take back the lollipop.

      The Environmentalists can be made happy or unhappy by simply manipulating the environment they are in.  For instance, you want Peter to be motivated at work?  Give him what he has long been hankering for—a raise in the salary.

      By the

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