I was provoked to thought this week by some satsumas! They were in the cupboard waiting for the previous batch to be finished when one went bad. No one did anything about it and in no time at all, the one next to it had gone bad too. And it struck me the same is often true of bad attitudes.

One person with an unhealthy attitude can all too easily lead a whole group of people astray. It seems to me that, attitudes such as:-     

Being unable to say sorry

Not forgiving others

A critical spirit

Having an over inflated ego

and     wanting all of the credit for ourselves

are all bad attitudes which are highly contagious and could easily cause a whole team to fail.

So what about the opposite? What about good attitudes? Well I am not sure they are so easily caught and so there is all the more reason to reward them. Charles Kingsley School have an excellent reward system and one aspect of it is the STEP badges. These badges are given to people when they say 'Sorry', 'Thank you', 'Excuse me' and 'Please'. Presumably, when the right attitude is rewarded then others are more likely to follow suit. Apparently Thomas Jefferson said “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal and nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude”

Let’s be people with healthy attitudes and let’s not be the bad satsuma who makes others have a bad attitude too.

Yours sincerely


Mike Saunders
Rector

The Rectory, Glaston Hill Road, Eversley, Hampshire  RG27 0LX
Tel:  0118 973 6595         
E-mail:  mikethevicar@thesaunders.plus.com