No matter what you want to achieve, you will only achieve it if you have the right mental attitude. I have lost count of the quotes from famous people which highlight this point in elegant simplicity. This one by Thomas Jefferson springs to mind: “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude”.

Everyone has their own familiar patterns of thought which are most prevalent to them. Some people look on the bright side, whilst others do not. When under pressure, sometimes people who are normally positive can be seen to waver in the way in which they focus. The fact is that there is a whole range of mental attitudes which we all have the ability to access, so long as we want to and so long as we know how to…