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//**How my optimism will help me press on to greater achievements in the future. **// Think of some times that you have been optimist in your life. Now think about some times where your optimism has helped you achieve success. These are some very good things to reflect upon and they could potentially help you be a better person. First, we must know what optimism is to have a deeper understanding of how my optimism can help me press on to greater achievements. Then I will tell you a little about how I am optimist and lastly, I will tell you about times I could be more optimistic.

Helen Keller once said that optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. We can all learn from this and understand what optimism is. It is faith and hope that can lead us to better things in life. This quote doesn't come from an every day person; it comes from somebody who really had struggles in her life and needed optimism to push through. Optimism may just mean taking the high road, but it is much more than that.  Dictionary .com defines optimism as a disposition or tendency to look on the more favorable side of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome. This is a little more in depth, but it doesn't really explain how the action can lead to greater things.It can lead to greater achievements because taking the extra step to stay positive or optimistic can have an impact on what others think about you and how they respect you. Optimism is really one of the keys to life and it truly can help you press on to greater achievements in the future. starting where I am in my life now it can help me immensely in taking the best out of what high school I will choose. It can then help me in taking the best out of whatever school I go too because I choose that school and I need to be there whether I like it or not. Next, it can help me in choosing a college by hoping for the best and applying for good colleges that I may want to go too such as Georgia Tech just because my grades or something aren't exactly the best. Most importantly my optimism can help me excel in the work place and my adult life because things are going to get rough whether I like it or not and life isn't what you can call easy. Another way optimism will help me in my adult life is simply by getting me a job and being somebody who has a positive impact in the workplace. Like college it may help me to apply for jobs that I may be slightly under qualified for, but its worth a chance if i am optimistic.

 I must admit that I am not the most optimistic person, but I do see that being optimistic can help me press on through life in many tough situations. Whenever you are trying to be optimistic, just remember to push the bad situation to the back of your mind and try to just think of the better outcome. You must hope for the best, but be prepared for the worst. I know that I think of the better outcome on a daily basis by just not even knowing that something that could be worse. For example, if I were truly a pessimist, then I would wake up and say that I am going to die today, but that wouldn't be true everyday. So, without realizing it, I take the best of life each and everyday.

Being optimistic in tough situations can be very challenging because it is very easy to just say that something bad is going to happen. In these situations it is good to hope for the best and prepare for the worst. I believe that this is really what optimism is because you don't want to be unprepared if the bad thing happens but you also want that bad thing to happen. I admit that there are many times that I could be a lot more optimistic. The hard part is actually doing this. I may not have any specific examples, but I do know that I take the negative side more often than not and I probably even cause people to be less optimistic because I am pointing out the bad things. My optimism has also done the opposite by helping others see the bright side. This may not seem like a big deal but it could change peoples attitude and then help them press on to greater achievements like it is for me.

Overall optimism is a great thing that can be defined in different ways, be used in everyday life, and help make improvements to your everyday life and maybe even change it forever. Being optimistic is a trait that all human beings should have to be able to push on to greater achievements in life.