The attitude today is the root on which the future grows. – Sathya Baba.

Our attitude to life may be the only thing in our control. It is a powerful mental switch that changes the world by changing how we see it. Yet attitude is naturally quite hard to detect. It's something we inhabit and therefore can be difficult to see. Our attitude affects our thoughts, feelings and behaviours on a daily basis.
How often do you consider your attitude?
How would you describe your current attitude?
Becoming aware of our current attitude affords us the ability to transform it.
Mindfulness itself is based on the cultivation of certain attitudes. Being mindful we may find we're naturally inhabiting these attitudes, and when we inhabit these attitudes we may find we're being mindful.
The accepted definition of mindfulness is "knowing what is happening, while it is happening, without preference'. Our attitude is in the last part "without preference". So what are these attitudes? There are 8 of them, they are all interconnected and they all meet in the middle. They overlap like petals on the flower of mindfulness.

Non-Striving
Non-Striving presents as a kind of energy that is not quite happy with things as they are, that's always moving and needs the next thing to make us happy. This can be seen in the belief that we need to earn our place in this world, that we are not good enough unless we’re busy being productive.
Acceptance
Patience
Gratitude
Non-judging
Trust
A beginner's mind
Letting go
Yes, these are wonderful attitudes to live by, how do we go about developing them?
A regular mindfulness practice cultivates all of these attitudes.
This is the power of mindfulness and a huge part of my motivation to sit and practice everyday. It is important to remember these are qualities that we can cultivate and not a requirement to qualify as being mindful!