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“I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.” - Winston Churchill. Being optimistic means appreciating what is possible. You choose the way you see the world. When you take a negative view of it, you notice the problems, not the potential solutions. You’re aware of weaknesses, but not strengths. You focus on costs and limitations, but not benefits and possibilities. You appreciate the disadvantages and concerns, but fail to grasp the advantages and opportunities. You need to examine both the positives and the negatives in order to deal successfully with the challenges of life and work. It’s all too easy to be pessimistic. A lot of things go wrong, and bad things happen to good people. When you see evidence that the world’s not fair, it’s easy to expect the worst. There’s little reason to look for the upside if you think things won’t work out anyway. The attitude you bring to a situation strongly influences its outcome. If you think things will turn out badly, what are the chances you’ll take steps to achieve the best result? It’s okay to “get real,” but possibilities are real, too. Open your mind to the positives as well as the negatives, and your worldview will be more complete. Make no mistake; how you see things will affect the outcome.
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Dennis E. Coates is CEO of Performance Support Systems, author of MindFrames, a brain-based personality assessment system (www.initforlife.com) and co-founder of the Train-to-Ingrain alliance (www.train-to-ingrain.com, info@train-to-ingrain.com, 800-488-6463), which delivers a reinforcement-centered approach to learning and development that achieves permanent, measurable improvements in workplace behavior and positive impacts on business results.
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