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OpEmism

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

~ Helen Keller

OpAmism is a choice that begins with deciding to see and
acknowledge the posiAve aspects of life. Because it’s in our

power to choose whether to be opAmisAc or pessimisAc, we

ulAmately have control over our thoughts. Perhaps moAvaAonal
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business writer Harvey Mackay puts it best, “OpAmists are right.
So are pessimists. It’s up to you to choose which you will be.”
HOPE: the feeling that what is wanted can be

had or that events will turn out for the best.
The good news here is that because you can choose at any
An op8mist sees an opportunity in every
Ame how you want to look at the world, you can impact your
calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every
experience for the be/er. SaAsfacAon and graAtude are the
opportunity. ~Sir Winston Churchill
feelings we typically assign to this this experience of opAmism –

the choice to see the glass as half full, rather than half empty.

Here are a few words that describe feeling saEsfied and opEmisEc:

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