How To Inspire People At Work By: Trevor Hill | - Let's start at the beginning. If you are going to inspire other people, first you need to be inspired yourself. This is particularly true if you want to inspire people at work. This is because they will quickly detect whether you are genuine or not. It's a sad fact of life that they will have come across many managers and leaders saying one thing and doing another. They will ignore your efforts unless you are example of inspired behaviour.
6 Long Term Effects Of Choosing Gratitude By: Adela Rubio | - There are SO many immediate benefits of a gratitude practice a positive outlook, affirmation of your abundance, feeling good that its not even a question of why, but when to practice. Researchers in the field of Positive Psychology have discovered, in recent studies that gratitude aficionados experience some profound long term effects, too.
Is This A Matter Of Women's "rites"? By: Knight Pierce Hirst | - Makeup affects how women are perceived. A combination study by Proctor & Gamble, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston University and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute showed participants photos of women without makeup or with 1 of 3 cosmetic looks: natural, professional or glamorous. Some study participants looked at each photo for 250 milliseconds and others looked for an unlimited time. When the photos looked at quickly were rated on competence, likeability, attractive ... Tags:makeup, girlfriends, optimism, birth control pill, fertility, egg-freezing technology
Laughter And Optimism By: Destry Masterson | - You've been told the cliched phrases like "laugh it off", or "laughter is the best medicine", but have you ever considered actually using them? What if laughing it off did make your life easier?
Could it be possible that laughter is the best medicine? It is time to go a little deeper to see if these words of wisdom are true; laughing does help your health and make you feel better, and there are ways to be more positive and optimistic about the occurrences that happen every day.< ... Tags:laugh, health, benefits, optimism
To achieve success, you have to believe that you also have these things in you. You need to know that you have what it takes. You are blessed with the skills and though you have shortcomings, you recognize and work hard to improve on them.
A Healthy Dose Of Optimism By: Chris Hammer | - I heard a great quote recently that got me to thinking about what it means to be optimistic: "If life doesn't give you at least a little sugar as well, your lemonade's gonna suck". In other words, a positive attitude isn't always sufficient in and of itself.
I come from a strength-based, solution-focused approach to coaching and life. I'm a firm believer in the adage, "whatever we focus on expands"; and so it's my preference to focus on strengths and possibilities. I'm a champion of ... Tags:personal growth, personal development, coaching, optimism, leadership
Enthusiasm The Magic Recipe Of Success By: Jim Gerlits | - Ralph Waldo Emerson was right when he said, "Nothing great has been achieved without enthusiasm."
A lot of people confuse enthusiasm with excitement. Enthusiasm is more than just jumping up and down or shouting your lungs out. That is excitement. Nobody could sustain such feeling of excitement for an extended length of time. Enthusiasm is bringing joy into your task.
How To Boost Positive Thinking & Optimism By: Klazina Andersen | - Our viewpoint towards life can determine our attitude in life. If we have a positive outlook, we will tend to do positive things and this can help us to be more happy. On the other hand, if we have a negative outlook, we will tend to do things negatively; which can cause misery in life.
Your outlook in life is so important, and yet many people never give it much thought. If you're optimistic, you'll open doors for yourself and lead a happy life. However, with a negative mindset, you ... Tags:optimism, positive, mindset
Learned Optimism By: Michael Logan | - Learned optimism learned fast. I believe very much in the concept of learned optimism.
I got a chance to start over about 30 years ago, and am still muddling along, albeit with more health and contentment and wealth than I had then. (Cross your fingers on that last one, given our current economic woes).
I have tried out a whole bunch of tools that I thought might enhance the process, and some of them do.
If I have learned one thing, it is that I must repeat ... Tags:learned optimism
The Power Of Optimism: 7 Strategies For Becoming A Glass Half-full Person By: Margie Warrell | - Just because we can find lots of reasons for feeling down and becoming a bona fide pessimist doesn't mean that we should. The fact is, optimism creates opportunity and pessimism kills it. Expecting good things to happen will lead to taking actions that produce positive results. Expecting only more bad stuff to come your way will keep you from doing the very things that might have minimized or avoided just that!
With Creation On My Side There Is Nothing I Cannot Accomplish... By: Anthony K Wilson Sr | - You may know people who are always pessimistic. They always complain, and insist that nothing ever goes right for them. While their attitude makes life difficult for other people who have to deal with them on an everyday basis, their attitude is also ruining their chances for success, happiness, and fulfillment.
Creating an attitude of optimism will have the opposite effect. In addition to making life more pleasant for the people in your world, optimism can have a great effect on ... Tags:optimism, success, life, creation
How To Tune Into Your Spiritual Side By: Jed McCall | - The idea of a life coaches asking you to get in touch with your spiritual side is almost a cliché. Words like spirituality, peace and harmony are said so many times they begin to lose their meaning. This is such a tragedy when we consider the rich history of spiritual philosophy across the ages. First, let us consider what exactly we mean by spirituality.
10 Tips To An Unshakable Optimism By: Jimm Yim | - Dont you find in this world, we are surrounded by a lot of negative thinking people? You can find them everywhere? I love my life and I love to enjoy my life. Since Im born here, I might as well make the most out of it and have fun. We all have a choice to do that. Why make life so difficult when life can be simple and fun?
To have an Unshakable Optimism, you got to train this weak muscle in your head. Because we are naturally tune to protect ourselves from danger, we t ... Tags:Positve Attitude, Positive Optimism, Business, E-book, Self
Today Is A Good Day To Make A Difference... By: Anthony K Wilson Sr | - Each day you have the ability, in your circle, to make a positive difference in someone's life. You may never really know how deep this power runs, but these random acts of kindness can have a major impact on someone's day and leave them changed for the better... This is a gift that never gets too old.
Optimism is one of those qualities which cannot compare with anything else. It is the outlook that will give you the most positive view of the world and of the future. It will also ... Tags:optimism, difference, success, help, attitude
The question about whether people perceive their glass to be half-full or half-empty is a perennial one. Even the most optimistic of us will have days when we can't see clearly and nothing in life appears to be going right. At those times it is difficult to see any kind of silver lining among the clouds. However that is exactly when it is vital to focus on the positives in our lives. It is a ti ... Tags:optimism, adversity, grow th and change, law of attraction
Does Strategic Optimism Help Leaders Lead? By: Maurine Patten | - John Quincy Adams' quote, "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader" sets a tone that has been followed for more than 200 years in this country.
More recently, information from over ten years of research in the areas of Positive Psychology and Positive Organizational Psychology are being used in businesses and organizations to create Strategic Optimism.
Think Positive In Your Life By: Antonio Marsocci | - What do you really want from your life? Have you got it? Have you unlocked your full potential or are you still looking for the key? There may be several locks on your potential: ability, opportunity, motivation, but the first key you need is always attitude.
That Glass Of Water, Is It Half Full Or Half Empty? By: Daniel Herzner | - By nature, human beings are impatient. We want good things to show up in our lives and we want them to show up now. Let's face it, we live in a microwave society - we don't want to wait around for anything.
When it takes longer than expected for goodness to materialize, frustration sets in.
The Masks We All Wear By: Phyllis Goldberg | - Don't we all wear masks at one time or another, pretending that everything is OK? There are many reasons people may act out this charade. It's not uncommon to hide personal pain, because putting it on display for all to see can be embarrassing and even destabilize relationships. Yet studies show that using denial as an emotional defense and 'acting as if' everything is fine can actually shift your feelings in a more positive direction. And keeping a 'stiff upper lip' when you feel powerless may, ... Tags:masks, emotional pain, relationships, feeling powerless, transition, self medicate, stress, optimism
Enjoy Your Life: Change Your Point Of View By: Brian Jones | - "Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one sees the stars."- Frederick Langbridge, A Cluster of Quiet Thoughts
If you've placed second in a writing contest, will you jump for joy and push for better results the next time or will you be discouraged and find an excuse not to join again?
In life, you are always filled with choices. You may opt to have a pessimist's view and live a self-defeated life or you may decide to take the optimist's rou ... Tags:optimism, positive attitude
How Hypnosis Helps You To Reduce Stress By Being Optimistic By: Roseanna Leaton | - Yale University conducted a study which compared the effect of your attitude upon life expectancy and the results were dramatic to say the least. It is clear from this research study and others that stress impacts upon physical health as well as mental and emotional well-being and this can eventually lead to an early demise. The upside of this is that those who are optimistic do in general expect to live seven years longer than those who have a more negative outlook upon life.
Finding Meaningful Work Starts With Self Awarenes By: Alvah Parker | - About three years ago I began to work with an Alexander Technique teacher. If you are not familiar with this technique it is a method of working with the body to insure that you are in proper alignment. People use it to strengthen their voices, get rid of chronic back pain, and improve their golf swing. (There are many other reasons. These are just a few.)
Golf And Investing: Optimism, Focus, And Education By: Steve Selengut | - You knew it the moment it left the club, that spark at contact when you catch it just right. You look up. It's just reaching the top of its climb--- and heading down right at the pin, a pin positioned left of center on the elevated green, much too close to the water.
This could be the one! Four mouths hang open, not a sound. Then whack, the ball strikes low on the stick and disappears; the pin wobbles; the ball is nowhere to be seen---
You Get What You Look For By: Judy Ringer | - The way we know is fateful... Human beings and organizations move in the direction of what they inquire about.
-- Jane Magruder Watkins, Appreciative Inquiry, Theory and Practice
Tell me a story about the best Christmas, best Hanukkah, best holiday season you ever had. What made it so wonderful? Who was involved? What happened? What about that time makes you remember it so vividly? What do you value about what you did? How did you contribute to its special qualities ... Tags:Christmas, Hanukkah, holidays, holiday, positive intentions, hope, kindness, optimism, Aikido, Appreciative I
How Optimism Helps Your Real Estate Business Grow By: Carolyn Capalbo | - Optimism, the art of seeing the good in most things and expecting good things in the future, will help you in your real estate agent career. While knowledge, experience and social skills are all very important parts of the agent's profession, optimism is something that builds confidence in yourself, inspires confidence in others and imbues all your dealings with the expectation that things will go well, making it more likely that they will.
How To Recapture The Optimism Of Youth By: Sarah Cooper | - We all know that being positive is a Good Thing. But as we get older, it's not that easy to break long-held habits of negative, self-defeating thinking.
I wonder if it's because our thoughts are both so familiar and invisible that we don't always appreciate their serious effect.
Imagine that every negative thought we had was represented visually and stuck permanently right in front of our noses. Like pasting up a sheet of gloomy wallpaper each time we are down on ou ... Tags:optimism, positive thinking, decision making
Are You A Pollyanna? By: Sahara Damore | - I have been called a "Pollyanna" before and never really thought to ask more about that. In fact, I wasn't even sure if it was ever a compliment or not to be honest. And I was even quite sure it was not! I mean, I know Hayley Mills played Pollyanna, but I did not understand at the time the depth of this character in the film or the original book.
Then just yesterday morning, I received my daily email from the Abraham-Hicks Foundation. OK, LOVE them.
Natural Treatment For Stress - Stretching Exercises By: Ian Spencer | - Stretching exercises are the preparatory phase you put your body through before attempting any type of exercise. These exercises loosen up your muscles and prepare them for the workout that follows. Doing exercise without stretching exercises would most often than not, risk muscle sprains and cramps. Stretching exercises are done after workouts too so the muscle relaxation is gradual.
I'm not expecting you do this all the time; the question is - do you do it enough of the time?
Many people can give a long list of all the things that are wrong in the world, the problems they face and the downside of every-day living. But they find it harder to articulate what they want instead.
Learning From A Real Pessimist - What Does It Tell Us About Optimism? By: Trevor Hill | - We can learn many skills from those who have reached the top of their game. This is true for tennis, public speaking and rock guitar but when it comes to the skill of optimism, there seems to be an exception.
Optimists can seem to be living in a dream world - not in touch with reality. A serene smile can be the wrong place to start when you're up to your neck in muck and bullets.
Learn To Read The Language Of Optimism By: Dan Boudreau | - Entrepreneurs are optimists by nature. It's a good thing too, because a positive attitude is infectious and compelling, and usually a prerequisite for achieving remarkable results.
Many people expect new businesses to fail. Why? Because the unflattering statistics show that the majority of new businesses do fail within the first five years. There's no sugar coating the message; business is risky and for casual observers it's safer to assume that new enterprises will falter, becaus ... Tags:entrepreneur, optimism, business planning, business startup
At the extremes we can deny or indulge our appetite. We know how our powers tail off when we miss breakfast or lunch. We also know the lethargy that comes from too many birthday cakes.
Through exercise? Diet? Personal coaching? Drugs? Luck? Chance? Well, perhaps. But beyond these - way beyond these - is the factor that naturally stimulates and encourages these qualities to unfold into real, tangible facts of life. That quality? Becoming deliberately, invincibly positive ... Tags:positive thinking, optimism, emotional strength, success, good luck, prosperity
Life Success Strategies - What Is Important To You? By: Ken Donaldson | - Did you know that I like acronyms? I do (in case you didn't know) because acronyms make it easier for me to remember things, and they make for a wonderful and powerful format to present material from.
- Do you see the positive everyday?
- Are you able to "reframe" (make lemons into lemonade) circumstances in Life?
- Are you able, at the very least, to get a lesson to better yourself from each and every Life experience?
Thankful, Grateful, And Appreciate By: Diana Guintu and Jennifer Ryan | - Create Higher Levels of Alertness, Enthusiasm, Determinism, Optimism, and Energy with One Small Act of Kindness
It’s only fitting that in this week of Thanksgiving, we talk about giving thanks and having gratitude. While some may view this week as chaotic, stressful, and anxious-ridden with extended family, my hope for you is that you give thanks for the abundance, prosperity, peace, and joy in your life.
Finding Your Optimistic Side By: Sean Rasmussen | - You'll have to admit that you've probably poked fun at that one person in your group who always tries to see the good in everything. Their optimism is alluring, but it can seem unrealistic when you're used to being practical and you're used to being a little more cynical about your life's progress. But what's the use of thinking the worst of your life and its direction? If you've already achieved your goals and your dreams, there's really no need to change the way you think. But if you're no ... Tags:Motivation, Inspiration, Optimism
In the latest consumer confidence survey conducted by GfK NOP, the public's outlook in regards to Britain's general economic wellbeing continued to fall over the course of this month to stand at -10, a decrease of two points from research conducted in October. During the same month in 2006, the overall index was at -7. As a result, the score is now at its lowest point since March 2003.
Consumer Optimism 'rises' By: Tom Dawson | - Britain's financial confidence is showing further signs of improvement, new figures indicate.
In the latest Consumer Confidence Index by Nationwide, the nation's monetary optimism rose by some five points over the course of September. The news comes despite the turmoil seen in the finanical industry in recent months which has seen a number of credit providers become stricter with their lending criteria towards those looking to apply for loans.
Moving From Pessimism To Optimism By: May Chew | - The Oxford English dictionary defines optimism as 1. hopefulness and confidence about the future or success of something, 2. the doctrine that this world is the best of all possible worlds. Pessimism on the other hand, is defined as 1. lack of hope or confidence in the future, 2. belief that this world is as bad as it could be or that evil will ultimately prevail over good.
Throwing In The Towel? Read This First! By: Gregory McGuire | - A few years ago my friend Stephanie wanted to lose about 75 pounds. She tried every diet out there, went to aerobics class 3 nights a week, and imagined how she would look minus the 75 pounds. Despite her enthusiasm, however, she failed every time.
She blamed the diets, the aerobics class, and her hectic work schedule. Worst of all, she blamed herself. I never saw a person's self-esteem sink so low in such a short period of time. She cycled through periods of, "Yes, I can do ... Tags:basics, network marketing, committment, optimism, focus
Are You An Optimist? By: Knight Pierce Hirst | - How do I know I'm an optimist? I know because I meet the three, most obvious requirements. I got out of bed this morning, I'm married and I have children.
Of course, there are lots of other ways to tell if someone's a positive person. When the weatherman forecasts a party cloudy day, a positive person sees it as partly sunny. He washes his car and leaves his umbrella at home. If it rains, his positive nature stays dry.
Born To Be An Optimist? By: Lawrence Ho | - The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty
Winston Churchill
An optimist, when faced with a problem, tends to find the upside to the situation and starts figuring out ways to solve that problem, or ways to turn it around. A pessimist, however, immediately throws up his hands, and yells, That's it; it's all over. I can't handle this anymore. Or he will distance himself from the problem, pretending it doesn' ... Tags:positive attitude, positive thinking, law of attraction, happiness, optimism
Family Books Help Pre-teen Girls By: Dave Pipitone | - One of the best things a parent can do to boost the self-esteem of pre-teen girls is to share family books about their worth. Starting in early childhood and going throughout life, girls and women look at life shaped by stories told to them. Stories affect the worldview and belief systems of both girls and boys. Did you ever stop to think how certain stories influence pre-teen girls?
Every Body Is Beautiful By: Ainsley Laing | - Do you have moments where you say "WOW! Life is truly wonderful!"?
This morning started out as most others. I was having my workout. My child left for school and my partner spent a few minutes entertaining me (he is a funny guy), before leaving for his workplace. As I started moving to the music, this sudden feeling of joy and thankfulness came over me like a warm blanket. A truly inspiring moment of great awareness.
Optimism Vs. Pessimism By: Nick Schultz | - Some people see the glass as half empty. Others see it as half full. But is it really as simple as that? Is it possible to be a bit of both? What are the advantages and disadvantages to both? Maybe there is more to both mind-sets.
What Works And What Does Not Work In The New Year By: Roy E. Klienwachter | - As another year comes quickly to a close and we come face to face with the things we didn't get done last year and the new promises to do them and others this year-maybe it's time to change our strategy.
If you are feeling inadequate, frustrated, and let down by the promises you haven't kept-you are due for a change in how you do things. It makes no sense to keep doing the same thing over and over each year expecting to get different results-"it ain't gonna happen!"
