<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" title="Brian Tracy - motivational speaker and author" src="http://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/brian-tracy.jpg" alt="Brian Tracy" width="75" height="100" class="alignleft" />Everyone wants to be physically healthy. You want to be mentally healthy as well. The true measure of &#8220;mental fitness&#8221; is how optimistic you are about yourself and your life.</p>
<p>In this article, you learn how to control your thinking in very specific ways so that you feel terrific about yourself and your situation, no matter what happens.</p>
<h2>Control Your Reactions and Responses &#8230;</h2>
<p>There are three basic differences in the reactions of optimists and pessimists. The first difference is that the optimist sees a setback as temporary, while the pessimist sees it as permanent. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2009/07/be-an-optimist-at-all-times-by-brian-tracy/" title="Permanent Link: Be An Optimist at All Times By Brian Tracy" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":97,"date":"2009-07-28T01:28:44","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T06:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2009\/07\/be-an-optimist-at-all-times-by-brian-tracy\/"},"modified":"2020-12-03T22:22:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T03:22:07","slug":"be-an-optimist-at-all-times-by-brian-tracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2009\/07\/be-an-optimist-at-all-times-by-brian-tracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Be An Optimist at All Times By Brian Tracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brian Tracy - motivational speaker and author\" src=\"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/brian-tracy.jpg\" alt=\"Brian Tracy\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>Everyone wants to be physically healthy. You want to be mentally healthy as well. The true measure of &#8220;mental fitness&#8221; is how optimistic you are about yourself and your life.<\/p>\n<p>In this article, you learn how to control your thinking in very specific ways so that you feel terrific about yourself and your situation, no matter what happens.<\/p>\n<h2>Control Your Reactions and Responses &#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>There are three basic differences in the reactions of optimists and pessimists. The first difference is that the optimist sees a setback as temporary, while the pessimist sees it as permanent. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2009\/07\/be-an-optimist-at-all-times-by-brian-tracy\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Be An Optimist at All Times By Brian Tracy\" 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\/97"}],"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=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}