Attitude and Intention

I have been thinking lately about attitude and attention. If a person goes around with the right attitude and good intentions, then that person is constantly learning and becoming a better person.
I had a lot of trouble defining and living a positive mental attitude. That got me into a lot of trouble financially and otherwise. Faith could be called a positive mental attitude, but so-called faith can lead you to believe something that is not true. I tend to think that an intelligent and thoughtful attitude is a lot closer to the perfect attitude. Some people seem to feel it necessary to go around with a defensive attitude; I think that might come from being mistreated in the past, but perhaps some of it is necessary. Maybe a good attitude is something different for each of us. Maybe all that is necessary to begin with is to decide to have a good attitude; then one can decide as one goes along what is the best attitude for oneself. I’m not going to tell you what your attitude should be; that is for you to decide. The important thing is that you think about it and build your own best attitude. Right intention is one of Buddha’s precepts; and I think a good one. I think that anyone who makes a conscious decision to have right intentions intends to be a good person. What constitutes good is something that we each need to decide for ourselves.