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Topic: How My Optimism Will Help Me Press On To Greater Achievements In The Future

What is Optimism? Optimism is the tendency to look on the more favorable side of events. To put it into simpler terms, it means to be positive. Optimism helps me to press on to greater achievements in the future in many ways. It helps me to set and achieve goals, it keeps me in a better mood, and it helps boost my mental perspective.

Optimism, in several ways, motivates me. For example, sometimes I get that feeling that something just drags on and on forever. When I just can't wait until it is over because maybe I get a special treat or reward in the end, I just focus on that. Thinking about the great reward to come once I finish the chore, or test, or whatever it is that I am doing. That is what I do with goals; I think about what's to come from all the hard work that I've done. I'm not saying that I do things just to get a reward, but if I am working towards a certain reward then it helps me to be positive. The negative complaints along the way don't get me anywhere. Whether it's earning that chocolate treat, collecting your monthly allowance, or even finishing that super hard science project, if I ever want to press onto greater achievements in the future, positivity gets me to my goals a lot quicker than negativity. This is because I'm not thinking about the work, so much as what will come from all the work that I have done. This helps me to keep pushing on towards my goal. It helps me even when I think being negative is easier or if I think that getting to my goal is too hard. Good things come from hard work.

It puts me in a good mood! A happy mood is infectious. It also makes bad things a little bit better. I have been in multiple situations where I was really bored. I don't like to focus on the bad things.It just makes whatever I am doing seem longer. If I face my goals with a positive attitude, then the bad will pass by just a little bit quicker! I just focus on what's to come from all this.I feel better when I am in a better mood as well, making me better off while facing whatever challenge that come my way. Dalai Lama once said, "Choose to be optimistic, it feels better."It's true, when I am in a bad mood I can't experience the happiness around me. Then I can't enjoy the reward that I receive after my hard work.I can't even be proud of myself for accomplishing something that was important to me. Think about it, you just don't even feel good when you are in a bad mood. And who wants to feel like that? Life is SO much better with smiles than frowns.You want to know what the bonus is about all this? Like I said before, a happy mood is infectious! Do you know what our world would be like if everyone was a in a good mood? It would be amazing, let's just say that! Choose to be in a good mood, it makes life just a little bit easier and it makes you feel a little bit better

Optimism also plays a role in my mental perspective. If you don't know what your mental perspective is, it is your view point on things. So you know the saying "Look on the bright side," right? Well, that saying changes my mental perspective from negative to positive! It is usually when something bad happens, but it doesn't have to be like that. I can change my mental perspective on everyday things, for example, homework. The first thought that comes to my mind is boring, or I let out groan. Or, sometimes I think of chores as just another thing my parents force me to do. Well, if I change my mental perspective, I try to see things like this: homework will help me ace that test, or doing some more chores around the house will make the house look neater and my parents happier, and who knows, maybe I'll find that ring I've been looking for. Or maybe I'll find some cash under the pile of dirty clothes in the corner of my room. Everything has a positive side, sometimes you have to dig it out from all the negative things that other people see in it. Yes, almost everything has a negative side, but everything also has a positive. More often than not, there are more positive sides to things than negative. I like to think about it like this, I like to have a lot of choices, everyone does. Well, I have more positive choices in this world to go with than negative choices. If I keep my mental perspective on the right track, I won't have to deal with the negative speed bumps along the way that try to slow me down or even try to stop me from achieving my goals.

These are just a few ways of how my optimism helps me to press on to greater achievements in the future. I use my optimism to set and achieve goals in my life, I am able to be in a better mood, and it helps me keep a more positive mental perspective. I hope that this has inspired you to also bring optimism into your life. Now that I am in a better mood, with a more positive mental perspective, I hope to set goals that help me press on to greater achievements in the future.