Successful Attitudes If you missed Attitudes 101 and the preceding series, the Archives link below can catch you up to date. Today's Attitudes address professionalism and careers. ? One's attitude at the beginning of a task will affect its successful or failed outcome more than anything else. ? Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence. ? Countless detail is often the only difference between mediocre and magnificent. ? We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ? The greatest enemy of excellence is good. ? Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire. ? Success is not final; failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts. ? Champions keep playing until they get it right. ? People with goals succeed because they know where they are going. ? Do it now! You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal. ? When a window of opportunity opens, don't pull down the shade. ? There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. ? The peace of the leader determines the pace of the pack. ? Slumps are like a soft bed; they're easy to get into and hard to get out of. ? If you keep on doing what you've always done, you keep on getting what you've always got. ? Beware of ambition! It could lead to a lot of hard work. ? Lead, follow, or get out of the way! Join us next time as we take a lighthearted look at Humor Attitudes.