<p><img decoding="async" title="Zig Ziglar motivational speaker and author" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/zig-ziglar-hs.jpg" alt="Zig Ziglar motivational speaker and author" class="alignleft" />I&#8217;m truly fortunate because I am optimistic by nature. I might not spend my last two dollars to buy a money belt, but I am very optimistic about the future.</p>
<p>Dr. William Arthur Ward said that &#8220;the doors of opportunity are open to the optimist.  Gates of achievement swing wide for the person who sees infinite possibilities in the insignificant.&#8221;</p>
<p>Most of us would rather be around a person who sees hope in the future than one who sees nothing but trouble ahead. I&#8217;m talking about the kind of optimism which sees a solution in every problem, optimism that looks for the solution instead of concentrating on the problem. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2009/05/optimism-helps-by-zig-ziglar/" title="Permanent Link: Optimism Helps By Zig Ziglar" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":83,"date":"2009-05-29T05:57:47","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T10:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2009\/05\/optimism-helps-by-zig-ziglar\/"},"modified":"2020-12-20T22:46:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T03:46:36","slug":"optimism-helps-by-zig-ziglar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2009\/05\/optimism-helps-by-zig-ziglar\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimism Helps By Zig Ziglar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Zig Ziglar motivational speaker and author\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/zig-ziglar-hs.jpg\" alt=\"Zig Ziglar motivational speaker and author\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>I&#8217;m truly fortunate because I am optimistic by nature. I might not spend my last two dollars to buy a money belt, but I am very optimistic about the future.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. William Arthur Ward said that &#8220;the doors of opportunity are open to the optimist.\u00a0 Gates of achievement swing wide for the person who sees infinite possibilities in the insignificant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Most of us would rather be around a person who sees hope in the future than one who sees nothing but trouble ahead. I&#8217;m talking about the kind of optimism which sees a solution in every problem, optimism that looks for the solution instead of concentrating on the problem. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2009\/05\/optimism-helps-by-zig-ziglar\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Optimism Helps By Zig Ziglar\" 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\/83"}],"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=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}