How to Become an Optimist? 5 thoughts for changing your life position

Optimistic people are healthier, happier, and more successful than people whose workdays are as dark as Monday morning. Optimists smile more often, everyone likes it and easily cope with their problems. Positive emotions help them move forward without getting hung up on their failures, and minor troubles leave no trace in their eternally sunny soul.

Sounds tempting? Optimism is not a gift from heaven and you can change your life position to a more positive one, and 5 tips will tell you how to do it.

Don't tie happiness to success

“I don’t have a car, so I’m unhappy”, “I’m not as sociable and brave as I should” - people find thousands of reasons that supposedly interfere with their happiness, and they think that if these reasons are eliminated, an eternal high will come. If you think so, you are wrong.

Happiness doesn't come from the outside, it comes from the inside.

Do not set conditions for your happiness and do not demand anything from yourself. Success will delight you and failure will upset you, but if you don't tie your happiness to achieving your goal, you can find pleasure in any momentand don't feel unhappy just because you don't have a car or a crowd of friends.

Surround yourself with positive people

Mood is in the air like bacteria, and smiling from ear to ear is just as infectious as grumbling and irritability. Optimists try to communicate with their own kind and avoid grumpy and angry people.

The optimist feels that life is too short to spend it on people who come out with poison for any reason and spread gloomy emanations.

Just what you need

An optimist will not waste his time on something that is not interesting to him, but is “correct” or “prestigious” according to social concepts. Positive people have the courage to live by their own rules, not caring what others think of them.

It is impossible to be optimistic if you continually give up your desires for the sake of public opinion. When internal contradictions break apart, what kind of optimism is there?

Stay on top of your goals due to obstacles

Optimists, like all successful people, are creative in their approach to tasks and do not give up in case of trouble. They know they will never have everything they need and make do with what they have at the moment.

Steve Jobsdid not panic when he did not have enough money to start a business: he sold his only vehicle - VW Microbus.

Walt Disney did not get depressed when he was told that Mickey Mouse is "a giant mouse, which only women scare." He promoted his project, and look what attitude towards Mickey today.

Donald Trump went bankrupt four times (in 1991, 1992, 2004 and 2009) and each time his ingenuity helped him rise again. Back in 2011, his fortune was estimated at $ 2.9 billion.

Life is not fair. And that's ok

So many people get upset, angry, or discouraged because life should be fair by their standards. They take offense like children: “Oh, so! Have I been treated unfairly? Then I will not do anything, and let it be bad for me."

Optimists know that life is unfair: some were born in a palace, some in a slum, some are more beautiful, luckier and healthier, others get nothing.

It doesn't matter what resources you initially have - if you want, you can achieve anything, and positive people will never complain that they were unfairly cheated.

An optimist thinks like this: