<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/optimist-choose.png" width="225" height="222" alt="Choose Optimism" class="alignleft" />An optimist is a person who looks on the brighter side of things, or takes confident perspectives about existence situations. Being an optimist you trust and anticipate plans and life events to turn out well, and you anticipate the future with a grin.</p>
<p>Being an optimist does not mean that you ought to be out of touch with reality, disregarding complexities and obstacles in life and behaving in an irrational manner. Also, it does not mean waiting for things to happen automatically. It means expecting the best, accepting that the best will happen to you; but at the same time making choices to make it happen, taking after your choices, acting appropriately in realizing them. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2014/05/be-an-optimist-not-a-pessimist/" title="Permanent Link: Be an Optimist, not a Pessimist" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":2200,"date":"2014-05-06T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=2200"},"modified":"2020-12-27T22:19:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T03:19:05","slug":"be-an-optimist-not-a-pessimist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2014\/05\/be-an-optimist-not-a-pessimist\/","title":{"rendered":"Be an Optimist, not a Pessimist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/optimist-choose.png\" width=\"225\" height=\"222\" alt=\"Choose Optimism\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>An optimist is a person who looks on the brighter side of things, or takes confident perspectives about existence situations. Being an optimist you trust and anticipate plans and life events to turn out well, and you anticipate the future with a grin.<\/p>\n<p>Being an optimist does not mean that you ought to be out of touch with reality, disregarding complexities and obstacles in life and behaving in an irrational manner. Also, it does not mean waiting for things to happen automatically. It means expecting the best, accepting that the best will happen to you; but at the same time making choices to make it happen, taking after your choices, acting appropriately in realizing them. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2014\/05\/be-an-optimist-not-a-pessimist\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Be an Optimist, not a Pessimist\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motivation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.3 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An optimist is a person who looks on the brighter side of things, or takes confident perspectives about existence situations. 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