Ways to Stay Optimistic and Lead a Happy Life
Last Update on August 13, 2020 : Published on May 3, 2020
It doesn’t take a lot to think positive but it takes ages to maintain that costiveness and live with it in good times and tough times. As it’s said, “Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. And your character makes your destiny.”
An optimistic person will never say it can’t be done. He will always ask “How it can be done?” We often avoid situations in which we might make mistakes, but we never know if those are the biggest mistakes of our life. We always don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are because we wear our own glasses. Here in this article, you will find how to discover reasons to be optimistic and how to be more optimistic in life.
Reasons to Be Optimistic:
You don’t need a reason to be optimistic, it should be in your nature, your behavior. Being positive about life and relations lead to a happy lifestyle and trust me, it reflects! Anybody looking at your face can tell if you are feeling happy or sad, is your nature positive or negative, reveals your personality.
Your decision of being optimistic or pessimistic reflects itself in your day to day life. Your life gets entirely changed and anybody can take a look and judge your nature as what you chose to be. Here is why you should stay positive about life.
1. Improves Your Relationships
According to the surveys, if one of the partners is optimistic in nature, the relationship goes well and more promising. The partners become more supportive and satisfactory in terms of the lookout of life.
2. Teaches You Leadership
A positive thinker has the capability to see the invisible and thrive to achieve the impossible. A positive mindset can keep people engaged and focused on success. He can help people reach their goals and fight challenges. People follow such an optimistic person in life and believe in them.
3. It’s Good for Your Health
An optimistic person’s outlook towards life makes him healthier than those are not optimistic. He knows how to take better care of himself and avoid factors that hamper health like smoking or alcohol. Patients with cardiovascular issues have shown speedy recovery than those who are less optimistic.
4. It Helps You in Your Career
An optimistic person who believes in his strengths succeeds well. Others might get a better salary but a person with an optimistic outlook turns out successful in a longer run. The career graph becomes more promising for people saying about optimism.
5. It’s Transmissible
This is one of the strongest reasons to be optimistic as people with an optimistic attitude can pull happiness from anywhere just like a magnet. Happy people attract everybody and those who believe in them also become happier than ever. An optimistic person’s attitude or behavior can make others happy too.
How to Be More Optimistic?
There are several ways to adopt optimism and a few of them are listed here. You just need to believe in yourself and think positive about life. Everything will change and you will shine with flying colors.
1. Change Your Outlook Towards Life
Your outlook towards life doesn’t change overnight, it takes days months or years to dwell the thought process and stabilize a positive attitude towards life. We mostly feel positive and optimistic in good times however the real challenge occurs when the changes. In tough times, we lose hope and feel disappointed, broken, or shattered. This is the time we need to be more optimistic about life.
2. Look for An Optimistic Viewpoint in Any Given Situation
Every situation has a negative and a positive viewpoint. Like the glass is half empty or half full depends on our viewpoint. Always find that opportunity, that good factor about any situation. You might take time to figure out positivity as negativity is already visible.
3. Create a Positive Environment Around Yourself
Stay with positive people, make an enjoyable environment around yourself as this will inculcate you the ways to figure out happiness in any given situation. Eliminate the negativity or eliminate negative people from your life. Life is a swing of ups and downs, enjoy the ride both ways.
4. Be Grateful for What You Have
Everybody is blessed with something or other. You should carry a positive attitude to be kind and grateful to what you have. Not all of them have everything!
Stop comparing yourself with others and if you do, whenever you feel low, consider people who don’t even have what you have right now. It is said to look people above you to thrive for success however there is no parameter of success. Whatever you have achieved, many dreams about it.
5. Focus on Solutions
Whenever you are in a situation, just ask yourself, ‘what is that one thing that can turn the ball in my court?’ Focus on small moves instead of just changing the game overnight. As said earlier, every problem has a solution and if you just focus on solutions, things will surely turn positive.
6. Start Your Day with a Smile and an Optimistic Attitude
Saying about optimism doesn’t mean that you just dream about it. It also means that you start taking things positively and give a good start to your daily routine. As the first song you hear in the morning, revolves around your mind throughout the day, the same way if you start your morning on a positive note, your entire day can go swinging melodiously.
7. Not Everything Needs to be Perfect
When God couldn’t make everything perfect, how can you? Don’t thrive for perfection in every small thing; it will ruin the flavor of whatever you have in hand. Not everything requires perfection. Start prioritizing what needs perfection and what not.
Summing Up
Don’t give up on important things in life and don’t worry about small matters. Just go with the flow and you will have a pleasant environment around you. People around you will be happier and would want to spend time with you. Whenever positive things happen with you, you never ask ‘Why Me?’ Be optimistic and accept things as they are and just focus on how you can make things better instead of crying on them.
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About The Author
Raj Soni
Raj practices yoga and mindfulness meditation for decades now and fond of creative writing. Raj has considerable research and writing experience since the time he joined meditation camps as an organizer. He enjoys educating his members and followers on how to lead a balanced lifestyle. He believes, one day he will convert his farm into a meditation centre.
