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30.11.2023 / 11:29

How to Stay Positive During Difficult Times: 14 Helpful Tips

I've found that one thing that helps me with my mental health when times get tough is to not deny or push away how I feel.When a negative situation has just happened and I’m in the middle of it then I at first may feel afraid, nervous, worried or angry. Or a mix of those emotions.

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6 Daily Habits that Will Make You More Optimistic (in 66 Days or Less)

It takes roughly 66 days to form a habit. So for 9 weeks look at the bright side of your life, and you will rewire your brain.If the grass looks greener on the other side…Stop staring.Stop comparing.Stop complaining.And START watering the grass you’re standing on…Truly, the most powerful weapon against stress on the average day is our ability to choose one thought or response over another.

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27.09.2023 / 08:50

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The Power of Positivity: Strategies for Improving Mental Health

Daily challenges might weigh on our mental faculties. Unexpected challenges, difficult events, and high-stress surroundings can cause anxiety and sadness.

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The 6 L.E.G.A.C.Y. Insights: Building A Holistic Approach To Business

In the complex and rapidly evolving landscape of modern business, innovative models are the need of the hour to navigate challenges and maintain sustainable growth. Inspired by the metaphor of the ‘Earth as a Cosmic Playground’, the LEGACY Impact System has emerged as a beacon of guidance, interconnecting six crucial business elements to create a comprehensive roadmap towards sustainable success.Simon Sinek, a world-renowned optimist and visionary, once stated, “Leadership is not about being in charge.

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The Secret Habits of Optimists: 6 Hidden Practices They Live By

Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive.

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5 Ways to Choose the Right ADHD Therapist for Your Child

Q: I was told a therapist could help my child, who has ADHD, with his behavioral issues. How do I choose a therapist and what can I expect in the way of treatment practices?A: Many mental-health professionals are adequately trained to address behaviors that accompany ADHD.

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powerofpositivity.com

07.03.2023 / 20:15

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Psychology Explains the Two Types of Pessimism (And How to Avoid It)

negative mindset, and people usually try their hardest to see the good in things. But, for many reasons, that’s not always possible.And this is especially true when it comes to defensive pessimism. Things can get even harder to handle if you struggle with dispositional pessimism.

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“When DIY Projects Meet My ADHD Persistence & Hyperfocus”

I like to do my own fix-it chores around the house, but I make so many blunders along the way that I often wonder if I should have just hired a professional.Then I get enthused about another DIY job around the house, and I downplay my previous missteps, mistakes, and failed home improvement projects. “This time will be different,” I think optimistically. But do I believe it?As much as people with ADHD hope something will be different, it rarely is unless we change our habits — and that entails remembering what we need to change and wanting to make the change happen.

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powerofpositivity.com

10.08.2022 / 21:03

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10 Reasons Why Optimistic Women Live Longer

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society on June 8, 2022.So why to joyful women outlive their more pessimistic counterparts?Optimistic women take things in stride and don’t let stressful events ruffle their feathers. A 2013 study by Concordia University found that optimists regulate stress better. During especially stressful situations, optimists had more stable cortisol levels than pessimists.

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powerofpositivity.com

19.06.2022 / 13:39

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20 Good Quotes to Remember When You Need Positivity

being optimistic, choose the ones that resonate the most with you. Then, put the quotes in areas you’ll see them often so you can read them whenever you need to. ADVERTISEMENT Think of every time in the past you have overcome a negative situation.

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powerofpositivity.com

23.03.2022 / 19:05

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5 Reasons Why Optimistic Thinking Can Help You Have a Better Life

Studies suggest that this may be because of these factors: ADVERTISEMENT It’s almost hard to believe that optimistic thinking may bolster your leadership ability. But it has a lot to do with the contagiousness of positivity and the attitude that comes with it! Even just working in a team with optimism can boost synergy among the team members. Here’s how positive thinking lends itself to better leadership skills:Most people are naturally more trusting of positive leaders and have bold, bright personalities.

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17.11.2021 / 02:27

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6 Habits That Improve Positive Thinking In Unhappy People

self-loathing.If you have a skill or a talent, it takes challenging work and practice to be your best. Did you know that you can practice optimism and rewire your brain to think more positively? It’s an acquired skill that you won’t regret.Unfortunately, most people find it easier to be pessimistic rather than optimistic.

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12.10.2021 / 18:57

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New Iceland Facility Will Capture Carbon and Store It Safely

Orca.” It’s the culmination of four years of collaboration between Carbfix and Climeworks, a Swiss company specializing in direct air capture (DAC) technology. The geothermal power plant provides the DAC units with renewable energy, while Carbfix offers a permanent solution for the captured carbon.

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powerofpositivity.com

18.07.2021 / 20:03

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20 Self Affirmations to Increase Happiness and Optimism

successful and reach your goals. Optimism will allow you to be excited about the future, and it will help you be more resilient.

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20.06.2021 / 13:21

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12 Behaviors Perfectly Explain Why Life is Good for Optimists

find the positive things in the most uncertain circumstances. The attitude differences between these two temperaments are night and day.Life is good, but it’s what you make it.

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positivepsychology.com

29.04.2021 / 11:32

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Pessimism vs. Optimism: How Mindset Impacts Wellbeing

download our three Positive Psychology Exercises for free. These science-based exercises explore fundamental aspects of positive psychology, including strengths, values, and self-compassion, and will give you the tools to enhance the wellbeing of your clients, students, or employees.Pessimism is a type of explanatory style in which individuals “expect the disadvantageous outcome when facing events of unknown emotional impact” (Herwig et al., 2010, p.

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How To Be an Optimistic Person When the Odds Are Against You

Although you may not be born a natural optimist, using your power of choice wisely can help you develop an optimistic attitude that will enable you to defy any odds that are against you. You are the only person who has control over whether you want to be optimistic or not! As the Dalai Lama has said, “choose to be optimistic it feels better!”I love this quote from Neale Donald Walsch as he explains very clearly how the power of choice can be used by you to get the results you want: “Therefore, be honest with yourself as to why you are choosing to do a particular thing.

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powerofpositivity.com

13.04.2021 / 13:06

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15 Quotes to Encourage You to Be More Optimistic Every Day

be more optimistic, too. Since being more optimistic is something that many people strive for, so it is a topic that is discussed often.

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How to Control Your Fight-or-Flight Response and Make Courageous Decisions

your brain will respond: fight or flight. And whether you fight or flee can be boiled down to how you’ve been conditioned from past experiences.

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positivelypositive.com

04.12.2020 / 03:23

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What Would You Say If You Could Go Back in Time?

If you could go back in time and give advice to yourself right before the pandemic hit, what would you say?Here’s my answer. Let’s assume it’s January 2020, just as we’re beginning to hear news about a strange virus in Wuhan, China…Welcome to the beginning of the strangest year the modern world has ever known.

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positivepsychology.com

26.11.2020 / 13:14

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Optimistic Explanatory Style: 5 Examples of How to Foster It

download three Positive Psychology Exercises for free. These science-based exercises explore fundamental aspects of positive psychology, including strengths, values, and self-compassion, and will give you the tools to enhance the wellbeing of your clients, students, or employees.This article contains:An explanatory style describes how we make sense of adverse events that happen to us (Peterson & Seligman, 1987).

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Ten reasons why Boris’s green agenda is just plain wrong

My article for The Telegraph:Our fearless leader has descended from the mountain with a 10-commandment plan for a green industrial revolution. At a cost of £12 billion, he will have all Britons driving electric cars powered by North Sea wind turbines and giving up their gas boilers to heat their homes with ground-source heat pumps.

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How to Control Your Fight-or-Flight Response and Make Courageous Decisions

your brain will respond: fight or flight. And whether you fight or flee can be boiled down to how you’ve been conditioned from past experiences.

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How to Become an Optimist: 3 Daily Habits To Help You Get Started

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”Winston Churchill“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”Anais NinOne of the most common questions people ask me via email is how to become more of an optimist.So this week I'd simply like to share three habits that can help you to get started with that.I use these myself just about every day to stay optimistic in pretty much any situation.It may sometimes take a while before I find an optimistic thread of thought but these three habits usually help me to do it.1. Ask yourself questions that let you see the optimistic viewpoint.When I’m in what seems like a negative situation my most common way of making something

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5 Qualities of Optimistic People

Discover the traits of optimistic people that you should consider adopting.

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positivelypositive.com

07.09.2020 / 13:41

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Why You Need a Positive Attitude and How to Gain It

One can hardly find a person who does not experience life problems from time to time. Want to know how to gain a positive attitude? Get our seven tips on positive thinking!Having a bad mood sometimes is normal.

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Is Your Fitness Tracker Making You Anxious?

a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found that the benefits of walking plateaued at 7,500 steps per day.) In an interview, Tariq Osman Andersen, the University of Copenhagen study’s lead researcher, was optimistic about the future of fitness trackers for patients with chronic illnesses. He said while fitness trackers may offer users the ability to consistently monitor crucial health data, including their heart rate, users need help interpreting and managing the data from medical professionals.

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60 Optimistic Quotes To Crush Negativity

Our latest collection of optimistic quotes to help you see the bright side. These quotes about optimism will help you live a positive life.

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powerofpositivity.com

03.09.2020 / 05:49

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12 Early Signs Of Iodine Deficiency Most People Ignore

Statistics show that about one-third of the earth’s population may be at risk! Deficiencies can lead to symptoms that range from mildly uncomfortable to dangerously severe.For those who experience less severe symptoms, it can be hard to tell when you are experiencing such a deficiency. As a result, you should ensure you’re aware of warning signs that could reveal your risk.

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What Google Said When I Asked Why Bipolar Makes Me Feel Helpless

My latest depressive episode knocked me off my feet and once again I felt defenseless, hopeless and helpless. Before I knew it, I had spiraled down the black hole I’m all too familiar with. It seemed to last an eternity, like it always does, and day by day I became less optimistic about the cloud lifting.

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Artist’s Watercolor Cat Gives the Cutest Comforting Mental Health Advice

The Story: An Instagram artist’s watercolor depictions of a cat giving advice to his person are opening up a conversation about mental health on social media. Hector Janse van Rensburg posts his artwork on the account “swatercolour” and recently spoke with Bored Panda about the comics. He said the series offers a new perspective on mental health and not necessarily a solution to these issues. According to him, the comic is based on his cat Ona who died a few years ago.

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Emirates Expects To Serve 143 Destinations By Summer 2021

Emirates Chief Operating Officer (COO) Adel Al Redha said in an interview with CBNC that the air carrier will serve “100% of our network” by next year. It also added that the air carrier will expand its destinations to 75 cities until this September.According to the company’s website, Emirates currently serves around 80 destinations while in his interview he stated that airline services will be served around 143 destinations by summer 2021 while the frequency of flights will depend on the demand.

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Experts Weigh in on Esketamine's Approval for People With Suicidal Thoughts

In 2019, Janssen Pharmaceuticals’ esketamine (brand name Spravato), a “chemical cousin” to ketamine, became the first new medication approved to treat clinical depression in three decades. Meant for “treatment-resistant” depression, you take the drug nasal spray in a doctor’s office — meaning esketamine can’t be taken at home — along with your regular antidepressant.

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The Four Temperaments

The Four Temperaments Sanguine: Leadership, Lively, Easygoing, Responsive, Talkative, Outgoing, Sociable.Phlegmatic: Clam, Even-tempered, Reliable, Controlled, Peaceful, Thoughtful, Careful, Passive.Choleric: Active, Optimistic, Impulsive, Changeable, Excitable, Aggressive, Touchy.Melancholic: Quiet Unsociable, Reserved Pessimistic, Sober, Rigid, Anxious, Moody.

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The Power of a Positive Environment on Your Everyday Life

The Positivity Blog is here to share nine ways we can create a more optimistic outlook and positive perspective:“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” — Maria RobinsonWhen I was younger — in my teens and early 20s — I was trapped. Not physically, but mentally: by the destructive thought pattern called pessimism. This negative thinking poisoned what might have been a pretty good and opportunity-filled childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood. This pessimism created ceilings and walls where there really were none.Throughout the period when I was ridden by pessimism, my life and I mostly stood still.

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Study: For Long-Term Well-Being, Turn to Power of Realistic Thinking

Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin suggests realistic thinking is a more effective strategy than forced positive thinking for obtainment of long-term happiness.In a new study, researchers from the University of Bath and London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) studied people’s financial expectations in life and compared them to actual outcomes over an 18-year period.They found that when it comes to the happiness stakes, overestimating outcomes was associated with lower well-being than setting realistic expectations.The findings point to the benefits of making decisions based on accurate, unbiased assessments.The study results question the “power of positive thinking.” This strategy frames optimism as a self-fulfilling

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How Entrepreneur Tony Hartl Got Back in the Game

, and In 2015, he partnered in launching a Malbec wine label, Seed, based in Mendoza, Argentina, which saw immediate success. But that didn’t fulfill the entrepreneur juices.Three years later, the time finally came to once again take the plunge.

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02.06.2020 / 17:03

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Queer Pride: 5 LGBTQ+ Flags You Need to Know About

Want to know about the history and significance behind prominent LGBTQ+ flags? Then read on to discover the complete guide here.

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The Importance of Having a Sense of Purpose

In this day and age, we work hard. Really hard. We all hustle in order to make a living. But research has shown stopping to smell the roses—by focusing on our side passions, practicing self-care, and spending time with loved ones—is a crucial element of living a long life.

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Nurturing Optimism in a Time of Crisis | Psychology Today

Being optimistic is about having hope and confidence about our present and future outcomes. Even if you’re generally a positive person, living during a pandemic makes it difficult to be in a constant state of optimism. However, there are certain things you can do to nurture such an attitude.

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positivelypositive.com

11.05.2020 / 16:21

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Iselation – 8 Things to Love about Isolation

Just like JOMO is to FOMO, iselation is to isolation. That’s what I’m calling all the things to love about COVID-19 isolife.

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Podcast: The Political Orphanage with Andrew Heaton

A month or two ago, I went on a podcast called The Political Orphanage with Andrew Heaton to have what Andrew called a "literary tailgating party", and discuss both The Rational Optimist and my upcoming book How Innovation Works.

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positivelypositive.com

28.04.2020 / 14:51

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The Problem Is How We Deal with Problems

“Wake up, you idiots!” shouted John McAfee, founder of McAfee, the virus software company, and now billionaire-on-the-run as he hops from country to country after being charged with tax evasion.

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Magnetic Brain Stimulation Relieves Symptoms of Severe Depression

A new type of magnetic brain stimulation rapidly relieved symptoms of severe depression in 90% of treatment-resistant participants in a small study by Stanford University School of Medicine.

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20.04.2020 / 15:15

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How Do We Stay Optimistic in a Complicated World? Realism Isn’t the Answer.

Ask me whether I see the glass as “half-full” or “half-empty” and I may get away with a humorous answer —like I’m just hanging right in there with the “half-and-half” crowd. Jokes apart though, the case of optimists vs pessimists feels like it’s becoming a cold one in a world that’s too complicated for an optimistic prognosis.

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Stanford researchers devise treatment that relieved depression in 90% of participants in small study | News Center | Stanford Medicine

Stanford Medicine researchers used high doses of magnetic stimulation, delivered on an accelerated timeline and targeted to individual neurocircuitry, to treat patients with severe depression.

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3 Actions to Lead Through Today’s Crisis

Here’s help. Having led businesses through crises before, including the Great Recession, we’ve learned what it takes to navigate tough times. We’ll share three basic actions that boost your confidence to face the current reality and find new opportunities for your business. You’ll be transported from fear and reactivity to become balanced, confident, and optimistic, yes, even now!

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