How to be more optimistic in tough times

During those challenging times that we all face it’s up to us and our perspective to them of how we see them and we react. And the quicker you overcome those challenges, the better. There are two categories of people and how the see the challenges that they have in front them. The ones who see the glass half full or those who see it half empty, in other words, the pessimists and the optimists.

Here are some ways of how you can be the person who sees the glass half full (optimistic)

· Control how you react and response. A pessimist and an optimist when they are in front of challenging situations are obviously have a different reaction to them. Whilst a pessimist can see a failure as a permanent, the optimist sees a failure as temporarily thing. An optimist sees an unlucky event (although no thing is luck or unluck) such a failing a task as a temporary event, something that happened now and doesn’t affect the future. The pessimist on the other hand sees it as a permanent event.

· Don’t take it personally. Although it is really hard to find any positivity on a failure event, being an optimist, you take that event as an external, whilst a pessimist sees the event as something personal. The optimist when things go wrong, he mostly sees the event as something external situation which he doesn’t have pretty much a lot of control on it. Also, an optimist sees takes a failure event as a lesson learned and he keeps moving forward

· Keep calm. Easier said than done when tough challenges are ahead, but a mature person has the ability to not get emotional when things going south. A mature person also is relaxed and capable to see things more realistically than in Immature way by getting emotionally.

· Step back. See the big picture and view the situation a an event that is not necessarily is connected with other events.

As the Stoics are saying: You cant control the events that are happening but you can control how you react to them