I currently work as a Family Specialist 1 at a local foster care agency. It took me a few years to realize the strong connection between the mind and the body, what I had discovered was that all the years of athletics had provided me with discipline that I could utilize in every aspect throughout my life in order to achieve success. Character is a combination of sportsmanship, grace, and focus balled up into one entity that can shape destiny. Having strong character is making hard choices and using a set of values or rules from which one lives by. Everytime an individual makes the hard choices, character is exercised and made stronger.
Attitudes are either positive or negative.
It's that simple. What's not that simple is what goes on into developing them. It could be said that your attitude about something takes into account your experience. For example, if you have a bad experience or failure in your life the instinct is to avoid that vulnerability, choosing instead to focus your energy where you shine. However, that vulnerability is forever present and throughout a lifetime may be exposed again creating future failure and disappointment.