The Optimistic Mind I How to be Optimistic
“For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use being anything else.”
-Sir Winston Churchill
How To Be Optimistic
Have you ever wonder how to be optimistic? A person with an optimistic mind generally does better in life than the pessimist.
Does the way you think actually effect your long term health? It’s all about learning how to be optimistic.
How To Be Optimistic and Good Health
In the late 1990s, the Mayo Clinic’s research team examined personality tests performed in the mid 1960s and followed their subjects 30 years into the future to scientifically measure the relationship between attitude and longevity. What they were able to prove is something many of us have known all along: our mind and body work as a team. Dr. Toshihiko Maruta, the study’s chief investigator, explained, “The important thing is that we’ve proven the relationship scientifically, and made a correlation between how people see the world when they’re young and how they turn out 30 years later.” These people knew how to be optimistic.
And while you can argue that optimism versus pessimism may depend on an individual’s environment and circumstances, it has been proven that people, even under the worst conditions, have the inherent capacity to be positive and hopeful.
How To Be Optimistic and Why It Equals Success
As a result of several large-scale experiments, Dr. Seligman also discovered that optimists are more successful than pessimists. Optimistic students get better grades; optimistic athletes train harder and perform better; optimistic politicians win more elections. And because optimists don’t give up as easily as their pessimistic counterparts, they are more likely to enjoy successful careers. Today’s companies actively seek out employees with optimistic outlooks in hopes that it will reflect in their work. It’s simple: people who believe they can . . . do.
Baker’s Optimistic Mind
So people ask me how to be optimistic all the time. I say it just take practice. As a genuinely optimistic person, I find that my life tends to go a lot more smoothly today, a lot more so than when I used to think more pessimistically in the past.
Not only does life go a lot smoother, but I’ve enjoyed very good health over the past few years, (can’t remember the last time I got a cold or got sick). Also my success rate in the literary/blog world has done very well. I am allowed the time, space, and good energy to continue to follow my passion and inspire others along this blessed, prosperous, and abundant journey. When you learn how to be optimistic your life changes.
I couldn’t have gotten here, if I was thinking negative, pessimistic, or doubting myself. It all began, and continues to flow from an optimistic mind. One thing is for certain, I am never short on the happiness and gratitude fuel that keeps me going everyday living each day authentically, with the honor of sharing all this valuable inspiration with you. The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.Learning how to be optimistic starts with your thoughts. People that have great lives learned how to be optimistic.
Optimism is contagious, I ask you to pass it along. =) Now you know how to be optimistic.
I really like this sentence: “It’s simple: people who believe they can . . . do.”
It’s so true. I think that for some people optimism implies that we lie to ourselves and believe the world is better than it is. This isn’t true at all.
Optimism is the only logical worldview for an effective person.
Hey, I like that! I’m going to put that on Twitter.. Take care Baker.
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Yes Fred. This is how the world tends to work…. It is on energy. Optimistic people are more successful because they are thinking and behaving in certain way.
It is one of the factors that contributes a lot in getting the success in every life. I like your post here, its kinda helpful to read especially to all the pessimists.
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Hi Reese,
In my experience success has and continues to be a result of the proper mindset. So I agree with you there.
I absolutely agree that optimism is contagious. That’s why I find optimistic people so fun to be around. I think that optimism is a law of attraction type thing. The more optimistic you are the more good things that come into your life. The more pessimistic you are the more you are attracting negative things into your life.
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Hi Anne,
Yes it is true what we give off we get back. It is law. =) So when people want to experience more positivity, they themselves need to be positive so they attract the same posiitve people in their lives.