Last updated on October 25th, 2024

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If you always view the glass as half-empty and find it difficult to see the positives in your daily life, pessimism may be holding you back from achieving all that you want to.

A negative mindset can be detrimental not only to your mental health, but also to the decisions you’re making about your future. However, embracing a more positive outlook is often easier said than done.

Dr. Chris Allen, a Forbes Coaches Council member, shared a method you can use to become an inherently more optimistic person.

10. Compare Negative Predictions With Actual Outcomes

One strategy is to consider a time when you predicted something negative would happen: when you thought that you would perform poorly on a task, for example, or that you wouldn’t get that promotion. Then consider what actually happened. Most of the time, the negative outcomes we predict do not come true. Remind yourself that predicting the worst won’t protect you from disappointment; it just leads to more suffering.

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