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Optimism is contagious

November 25, 2007 on 6:46 am | In Free, Information, Miscellaneous |

Optimism Versus Pessimism
By: Gary M. Miller, Tue Nov 13th, 2007
In this fast changing, struggle-filled world, there are two kinds of people; those who see only the bad and those who see a whole lot more. Which person are you? It’s easy to see the bad and you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know there are problems out there. It’s harder to see beyond the bad and into a world of promise and a better life. What it basically boils down to is, are you a pessimist or an optimist? You can be one or the other but you can’t be both.

The Power Of Optimism
By: Gary M. Miller, Tue Nov 13th, 2007
Most people don’t believe that their lives are the result of their own actions. They see themselves as victims, having been accidentally thrown into a life that they didn’t choose. They didn’t “choose” their parents or the country they were born in. They didn’t “choose” to be born without money or without the prettiest face on the block. Life seems unfair to them and full of bad people who are always looking to cheat and take advantage of everyone else. Does this attitude sound familiar to you? It should sound familiar because it is an extremely common attitude and probably makes up the majority of the way people think. For you, however, it doesn’t have to be this way. There is another way to think and it is called optimism.

Optimism
By: Anna White, Tue Jul 25th, 2006
How many times have you heard someone say, “Hey, cheer up!” or “Turn that frown upside-down!”? Unconsciously we all seem to know that optimism is a virtue and that a negative outlook is something to be concerned about. And did you know that there are actually a host of concrete reasons why this is so?