Interpreting life in optimistic ways is a key to achieving life goals. Pessimistic thinking plagued me for much of my life and when I started to transform my thinking with optimism, a great deal in life improved; including my weight and health. Optimists’ lives are not perfect, but the way they approach life sets them up for being more resilient during tough times. Losing weight and maintaining it for the rest of your life requires mental toughness. Thinking optimistically helps you when you need it most.
This is part two in a three part series.
Part one: The Problem With Pessimism lays the foundation of why negative thinking creates an unhealthy approach to dealing with life and keeps us from achieving the goals important to us.
Part two: The Opportunity With Optimism explores how an optimistic interpretation of life events benefits us when we are trying to make change in our lives, like losing and maintaining our weight.
Part Three: Transform Pessimistic Thinking: Maintain Optimism For Life will give us the strategies we need to turn negative thinking around and to grow our optimism.