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How to Boost Your Optimism
In last week’s blog, we took a look at Optimism in a great book by Adam Jackson called The Flipside. Here are a number of ways you can easily boost your Optimism.
1. Act “as if” you are optimistic. By looking for benefits, opportunities and even trying after failure, we will experience the same results as optimists and then start to feel optimistic (The Flipside, Jackson).
2.Express Gratitude. Gratitude fosters a glass half full approach and grateful individuals have higher levels of optimism (Emmons and McCullough, 2003). The next time something goes wrong, try to see the silver lining and consider the positive implications that may not be evident. Remember it takes time to change a habit, as long as month, so be patient as you cultivate greater gratitude.
3. Assume the best. Visualize and imagine the best case scenarios as it will change how you approach the situation: it may increase the chances of a positive outcome.
Quotes of the Week
“People want to feel what they do makes a difference” ~Frances Hesselbein
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” ~Winston Churchill
“Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.” ~Vince Lombardi
“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. ” ~John D. Rockefeller
“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group. There is much less competition.” ~Indira Gandhi
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.” ~Seneca
“Only the mediocre are always at their best.” ~Jean Giraudoux
“Example is not the main thing influencing others. It is the only thing.” ~Albert Schweitzer.
“Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.” ~David Seabury
“Attitude determines altitude” ~Unknown
Quotes of the Week
“I would rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not” ~Lucille Ball
“Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination” ~Anonymous
“If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.” ~Henry Kissinger
“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability” ~Harry F. Banks
“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” ~Max Lucado
“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. ” ~Warren G. Bennis
”Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” ~Henry Ford
”Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” ~Robert Francis Kennedy
“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.” ~John Buchan
“When all think alike, then no one is thinking.” ~Walter Lippman
“You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.” ~Sam Rayburn
