http://www.lieslnet.com/blog/2006/09/18/how-to-become-an-optimist/ Your Personal Development WebSite Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:58:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.lieslnet.com/blog/2006/09/18/how-to-become-an-optimist/#comment-55 Dealing with Severe Stress - Part I--Lieslnet.com - Your Personal Development Site Sat, 07 Oct 2006 14:48:40 +0000 http://www.lieslnet.com/blog/2006/09/18/how-to-become-an-optimist/#comment-55 [...] Dealing with life-impacting prolonged stressful events requires a particular mindset and a particular set of skills. I have spoken about explanatory styles and how changing our thinking from pessimistic to optimistic can impact not only on the enjoyment of our lives but on the outcome as well. How to be an Optimist Up to this point, I have spoken about changing our explanatory styles in relation to simple everyday adversities. The concept is that once we start engaging in more positive optimistic explanatory styles in response to minor adversities, we will become trained to automatically think this way. You can read more on explanatory styles in article The Different Explanatory Styles of Optimism and Pessimism. [...] [...] Dealing with life-impacting prolonged stressful events requires a particular mindset and a particular set of skills. I have spoken about explanatory styles and how changing our thinking from pessimistic to optimistic can impact not only on the enjoyment of our lives but on the outcome as well. How to be an Optimist Up to this point, I have spoken about changing our explanatory styles in relation to simple everyday adversities. The concept is that once we start engaging in more positive optimistic explanatory styles in response to minor adversities, we will become trained to automatically think this way. You can read more on explanatory styles in article The Different Explanatory Styles of Optimism and Pessimism. [...]

]]> http://www.lieslnet.com/blog/2006/09/18/how-to-become-an-optimist/#comment-54 Optimism & Resilience--Lieslnet.com - Your Personal Development Site Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:37:30 +0000 http://www.lieslnet.com/blog/2006/09/18/how-to-become-an-optimist/#comment-54 [...] Optimistic thinking habits allow you to keep adversity in perspective. You do not engage in catastrophic thinking. You do not think that every little adversity hails the end of your world as you know it. Your thoughts are flexible and solution oriented. You use all the techniques we have discussed so far in the How to be an Optimist articles. Resilience is essentially engaging in flexible accurate thinking. [...] [...] Optimistic thinking habits allow you to keep adversity in perspective. You do not engage in catastrophic thinking. You do not think that every little adversity hails the end of your world as you know it. Your thoughts are flexible and solution oriented. You use all the techniques we have discussed so far in the How to be an Optimist articles. Resilience is essentially engaging in flexible accurate thinking. [...]

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