Online Resource: How to Move From Pessimism to Optimism
Molly Gordon, an internationally recognized Master Certified Coach, writer, and educator, has an interesting article in the American Chronicle on achieving work life balance by shifting one's attitude from hopelessness to hopefulness.
She notes the insight of psychologist Martin Seligman that people with an optimistic approach to life habitually accept positive thoughts and dispute negative thoughts; they tend to assume that good events will happen again and that bad events are an exception. On the other hand, those of us who are wired to be more pessimistic tend to dispute the positive and accept the negative as a given.
Gordon goes on to provide guidelines for changing one's outlook from pessimistic to optimistic.
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