<p>I&#8217;m a firm believer that, in life, we always find what we&#8217;re looking for. </p>
<p>Recently, I heard a story told by my friend and colleague, <a href="http://getmotivation.com/drwdyer.htm">Dr. Wayne Dyer</a>.  He was walking on the beach near one of his vacation homes when he was confronted by a couple walking along the beach in the opposite direction.  As Dr. Dyer passed the couple, the lady asked him if he lived in the area.  </p>
<p>He confirmed that his home was in the vicinity.  Her husband explained that they had just bought a home and were moving from New York and would be living near him on the beach.  The wife asked Dr. Dyer if the neighbors were nice and pleasant.   <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2011/05/optimists-realists-and-pessimists-by-jim-stovall/" title="Permanent Link: Optimists, Realists, and Pessimists By Jim Stovall" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":629,"date":"2011-05-30T07:23:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T12:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=629"},"modified":"2012-07-24T10:48:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T15:48:20","slug":"optimists-realists-and-pessimists-by-jim-stovall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2011\/05\/optimists-realists-and-pessimists-by-jim-stovall\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimists, Realists, and Pessimists By Jim Stovall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a firm believer that, in life, we always find what we&#8217;re looking for. <\/p>\n<p>Recently, I heard a story told by my friend and colleague, <a href=\"http:\/\/getmotivation.com\/drwdyer.htm\">Dr. Wayne Dyer<\/a>.  He was walking on the beach near one of his vacation homes when he was confronted by a couple walking along the beach in the opposite direction.  As Dr. Dyer passed the couple, the lady asked him if he lived in the area.  <\/p>\n<p>He confirmed that his home was in the vicinity.  Her husband explained that they had just bought a home and were moving from New York and would be living near him on the beach.  The wife asked Dr. Dyer if the neighbors were nice and pleasant.   <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2011\/05\/optimists-realists-and-pessimists-by-jim-stovall\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Optimists, Realists, and Pessimists By Jim Stovall\" 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":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}