Optimistic

1. Intro

Optimism is the belief that good will always prevail over bad. Optimism is the opposite of pessimism. Optimism cloaks hope in a world of uncertainty and fear, while pessimism leaves people to face the future with nothing but sorrowful acceptance of what is to come.

2. How Optimism and Pessimism Affect Your Business

Optimism refers to the belief that good will always prevail over bad. Pessimism is the opposite of optimism, and is defined as the belief that bad will always prevail over good. Optimism, like pessimism, is a useful tool for business. But there are two key things to remember about it:• Optimism is not only useful for business; it’s also very useful for your personal life too. If you think with optimism, you will be more likely to believe in yourself and what you can achieve in life and less likely to believe in outside forces (such as fate or luck). Optimistic people are also more prone to dreaming big dreams and less inclined to procrastinating than pessimists (if they do never reach their goals, it’s because they were too insecure or afraid to try). Optimistic people tend to be better at dealing with uncertainty as well as decision-making under pressure (so long as they don’t allow their emotions get involved). Pessimistic people are better at dealing with uncertainty in themselves — so long as they curb their desire for instant gratification. They tend to be risk-averse, allowing problems to fester rather than tackling them head on.  Pessimists tend not to have strong faith in luck; optimists do.

3. How Optimism and Pessimism Affect Your Life

Optimism is a key ingredient in developing a positive self-image, which is essential for any project that aims to help anyone. Optimism is simply the belief that whatever happens, good will always triumph over bad. Optimist’s think: if things go well, they will continue to go well; if things go badly, they will continue to go badly. The trouble with optimism as a strategy for success in life is that it can easily become its own worst enemy — like being too optimistic about the future and expecting everything to be just fine. If you’re constantly thinking about how great things are going to be and believing there’s just nothing left to lose, then sooner or later your optimism could lead you down the road of negative thinking — where you start seeing the future as a dark pit filled with doom and gloom. In short: do not let your optimism get out of hand: it might make some small progress towards a positive outlook but sooner or later it will tend towards pessimism.

4. How You Can Benefit from Being an Optimist

Optimism is a character trait that has been studied extensively, and there are many ways to cultivate it. Here are four common ways:

1.• Believe in the power of positive thinking• Practice these techniques regularly: Dream big. Set goals. Have faith in yourself and your ability to achieve them. Think positively about your life, everyday (if you can). Smile more. Laugh more frequently. Do something every day that makes you feel happy, whether it’s cooking dinner or shopping for groceries or visiting friends or doing yoga on a Friday afternoon… etcetera.

2.• Be optimistic about the future of humanity and civilization• Come up with solutions for problems facing our society and culture today—not just solutions for past problems…  that may not be able to be solved at all (or even if they can be, who knows if we’ll need them tomorrow?). For example: • Build long-term cooperative solutions to issues like climate change, poverty, inequity and food insecurity; • Create solutions to everyday problems people face today like traffic congestion or pollution, artificial intelligence, healthcare costs or home prices; • Extend the benefits of their work to other areas of society such as education and health care;

3.• Ask questions that make you think—and look at things from different angles than most people do every day• Ask yourself questions like “What if?” “Wouldn’t this always happen?” “Why is this happening?” “What could I do differently?” “How could I do this better?” Don’t limit your questioning to the obvious answers… • Don’t judge someone else’s thinking by what you think—judge what their thinking is worth by how well it fits into your own beliefs and values…  this is especially important when you find out someone else doesn’t think something exactly as you do….  projects should not be judged by others’ success but rather by their own creative use of resources (time, money), their results for others (calmness/happiness), their impact on others (passion), their community (volunteering)…etcetera

4. Look at problems in an optimistic way—like a detective rather than a pessimist… You don’t need to solve everything—just look at the problems from different angles so you get a new perspective on them which can

5. Conclusion

It is a good idea to keep a small sliver of your personality in your head for when you need to make critical decisions. The decision making process is going to be skewed in favor of being optimistic no matter what else is going on in your life. And if you have been through several bad days and still found yourself thinking that optimism was the right thing to do, well… maybe you are right.