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As
entrepreneurs, if you're
not optimistic, you're in trouble. So the people I choose, they
have to be optimistic. |
Jack Ma |
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The Power of Optimism
In the 1950s, Normal Vincent Peale published
The Power of Positive Thinking. The
book’s message was that faith, prayer and positive thinking were the keys to
a successful life. The book was wildly successful and had a record-setting
run on best-seller lists.
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In
many areas,
optimists achieve greater success than pessimists.
In part,
optimists achieve more because they expect more, and as a result work harder
and more persistently toward their goals. But it is also partly a
self-fulfilling prophecy – optimists encounter fewer negative events in
their lives because they take more proactive steps to avoid them.
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Optimistic Thinking Techniques
Your Life Symphony
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Self-Motivation
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5 Rules
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Surround yourself with optimistic people because optimism is
contagious. So is pessimism. Studies find that people who live with
depressed people tend to become depressed themselves. Surrounding yourself
with optimistic, supportive people will help you turn occasional optimistic
thoughts into a
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"Optimistic thinking has sometimes gotten a bad
rap as being unrealistic, but
research has found that we can indeed live
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happier,
healthier, and more successful lives
if we can learn to
discover
opportunities in problems."
~ Stephen Kraus
Another powerful tool for optimism is "2P & 3P
thinking," suggested by Stephen Kraus. When good things happen to you, and when you
accomplish your
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goals, try to understand why those events occurred in
Personal, Permanent and Pervasive terms.
If you
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manage a successful project
at work, take credit for that success. Attributing it to your intelligence,
for example, offers an explanation that is personal (you are intelligent),
permanent (you’ll always be intelligent) and pervasive (your intelligence
will help on other projects as well). |
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6 Mindsets
of a
Great Achiever
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If I can't make it through one
door, I'll go through another door ‒ or I'll make a door. Something terrific
will come. |
Rabindranath Tagore |
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Great
groups are more optimistic than realistic. They believe they can
do what no one else has done before. |
Tom Kelley
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Failure
as a Stepping Stone To Success 
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"I
never saw a pessimistic general win a battle."
~ Guiseppe Borghese
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Be a
Victor |
"Optimism is the
ability to
focus on
where we're going.
Not where we're coming from."
~ Simon Sinek |
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"You may not control
all the events that happen to you,
but you can decide not to be reduced by them."
~ Maya Angelou |
"Optimism is the faith
that leads to
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achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and
confidence."
~
Helen Keller |
How
Optimism Enhances
Different Aspects of Life
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Positive Emotions Are
the Key To Life
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4 Steps To Super Attitude
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