Posts tagged Optimistic Person
Maintaining a Positive Mood – Spend Your Time With Optimists
Sep 1st
Usually, optimistic people are those people who usually believe that things will be great and are also those people who are always having a more positive mood than pessimists.
Pessimistic people are those people who have lost their hope, who think that things will not turn out well (A pessimist will always tell you: just wait, you’ll see what happens!). this is why these people are always worried, anxious and most of the time angry!
Optimism is usually formed early in life. The are also people who took this attitude from the previous generation.
An optimistic person will always have the faith that everything will be alright and even when it looks like life is conspiring against him, he tends to believe that something good will happen too!
Studies have shown that attitudes are contagious and that if you go out with people who have a positive attitude, you have great chances to have the same attitude.
It also true that if you are hanging out with a group of people who are really pessimistic, you have the chance to become one of them! We can say that it is easier to become a naysayer than to become an optimistic person.
We have to surround ourselves as much as possible with positive thinking people in order to be able to keep our good mood. Staying in a good mood is very important: it is said that people who have a positive attitude have an easier life, solve their problems easier and and have much more success than the other!
Optimism and Authentic Happiness
Aug 18th
It has been agreed upon the fact that highly emotionally intelligent persons have a great dose of optimism. Being optimistic about something implies adopting a strategic approach to a challenging situation. Apart from acknowledging the difficulty, an optimistic person believes that there is a solution to it. Optimism involves as well actively exerting efforts toward the possible successful outcomes.
The list below will reveal a few tips that will help you become more optimistic:
admit when you are in a difficult situation;recognize and acknowledge your top skills that may help you in dealing with the crisis situation you are in;identify where you can get help with the skills you lack;address problems in an active way the moment they arise;recount similar situations when you managed to overcome the problems;concentrate on applying solutions going forward in order not to get stuck in the past;think of negative circumstances as challenges to be overcome.In order not to overestimate and inflate your self-esteem, try the best to honestly and critically evaluate yourself. Be critically honest about your weaknesses and strengths so that you can build true confidence in yourself.
Authentic happiness is gradually achieved through optimism and practicing several activities that can elevate your state of mind and, thus, further affect aspects of your life success. Martin Seligman, who is a former President of the American Psychological Association and one of the initiators of the Positive Psychology movement, identified three types of authentic happiness that one can experience and these are:
pleasant life: instant satisfaction, hedonism;good life: obtaining the things you desire;meaningful life: subordinating yourself to a larger and more worthwhile context than personal pleasures and desires.By combining the three types one can reach authentic happiness for the full life. Martin Seligman contrived a series of exercises destined to increase happiness among the visitors of his website. Two of the exercises proved to have a long-term effect, lasting over six months. Here they are:
Three good things in life: it implies that you record daily three things that went well for the respective day, as well as the causes of or possible explanations to those three positive events. Carry out the exercise for a week.Using signature strengths in a new way: this exercise requires that you choose from a list with your personal skills the one that best defines you, called “the signature strength”. By establishing a top five strengths you can try to use one of them in a new and different way for a week whether it is about leadership, honesty, creativity, humility, enthusiasm, teamwork, self-control, social skills, optimism etc.
