{"id":18,"date":"2013-09-23T07:50:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T11:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/workshouldbefun.wordpress.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2013-09-23T07:50:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T11:50:35","slug":"attitude-adjustment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/attitude-adjustment\/","title":{"rendered":"Attitude adjustment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can attitude be taught?<\/p>\n<p>It reminds me of an old joke &#8230;\u00a0 How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb? Only one, but the light bulb has to want to change.<\/p>\n<p>All of the motivational speakers, tapes (remember tapes?), CDs, podcasts and off-site retreats in the world will not change an attitude that does not want to be changed.<\/p>\n<p>But, if it is ready&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What is your attitude?\u00a0 Is it healthy? Or is it holding you back?<\/p>\n<p>At absolutely every point in my career where I felt stuck, stalled, unable to move forward &#8211; and later broke free &#8211; the breakthrough came about as a result of shifting my attitude.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the shift was a minor adjustment, requiring only something as simple as a Post-it note stuck to my computer monitor as a reminder. Sometimes it required outside intervention and months of therapy.<\/p>\n<p>If we are going to make work fun, we have to be willing to assess, acknowledge, and adjust our attitude.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s it going to take to adjust yours?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can attitude be taught? It reminds me of an old joke &#8230;\u00a0 How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb? Only one, but the light bulb has to want to change. All of the motivational speakers, tapes (remember tapes?), CDs, podcasts and off-site retreats in the world will not change an attitude &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/attitude-adjustment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Attitude adjustment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/WorkShouldBeFun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}