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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: It’s All About Perspective

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: It’s All About Perspective

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Quotes of the Week from Me: “Are you a receiver or co-creator?” “Perspective will blow your mind.” “Being is often overwhelmed by thought.” Quotes of the Week from Someone Else: “A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.” – Seneca “There is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all.” – Leo Tolstoy “My philosophy is, it’s none of my business what people say of me. I am what I…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: My Elderly Neighbor

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: My Elderly Neighbor

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Quotes of the Week from Me: Quotes are thoughts. Bits of knowledge. Sometimes commands. I believe they can be questions too. “Find something you want to wake up early for, even on a Saturday.” “There is a generational debate about the definition of efficient innovation. What is progress? What is laziness?” Quotes of the Week from Someone Else “So, you aren’t from here, but you are here, and it’s lovely to have you.” – Kind old man from my neighborhood…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Learning is For All Ages and From Them Too

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Learning is For All Ages and From Them Too

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Quotes of the Week from Me: “Learning is for all ages, and from them too.” “Be proactive. Trust yourself. Trust your team.” Quotes of the Week from Someone Else: “Make your accomplishments seem effortless.” – Robert Greene “You must decide what to let go, and what to pursue.” – Jordan Peterson Quick Optimism Self-initiate. It comes naturally to some, it takes extensive practice for others. As always, there is uncertainty in choice.   Self-initiating could mean waking up to the…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Always an Opportunity

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Always an Opportunity

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April 3, 2023 Quotes of the Week from Me: “There is opportunity in every direction.” “Too early? Begin. Out of breath? Don’t stop. Tired? Keep going.” Quote of the Week from Someone Else: Mark Helprin in Winter’s Tale: “Nothing is random, nor will anything ever be… Everything that ever was, is; everything that ever will be, is… Though in perceiving it we imagine that it is in motion and unfinished, it is quite finished and quite astonishingly beautiful.” Quick Optimism…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Good Friends

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Good Friends

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Quote of the week from me: People like to remind me that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. For those who don’t know, some believe it was Albert Einstein who said that. But there is no proof he ever did, and I’d argue that, “The definition of insanity is giving up.” Quote of the week from someone else: “Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Controversial Optimism in Everyday Life

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Controversial Optimism in Everyday Life

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Quote of the week from me: Any basketball fans? “Sometimes a perfect pass still leads to a jammed finger. It’s your job to score anyway.” Like playing through a minor, mid-game injury, life is full of adversity. It comes in all forms of inconvenience and the challenges present themselves from both positive and negative circumstances. You get promoted. You get fired. You get an A. You get an F. You begin a new relationship. You get dumped. How does each…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: The Crumpled-Up Soccer Ball

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: The Crumpled-Up Soccer Ball

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Quote of the week: There is a plausible alternative to your original interpretation. I have discussed happiness, conflict, and committing to the utilization of practical optimism. Identify and acknowledge the good and bad in life. Commit to reminders that you are in control of your response to anything that happens. Consider the NAFA approach when at work, at home, being social, and around people in general. It also works when you are alone. From an article I wrote in September,…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Too Much Information

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Too Much Information

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Updates: — Stay behind the moment. My quote of the week, find it later on too: There is a current state, a growth state, and a future state that will always exist simultaneously. It takes a lot of time and effort to maintain daily standards of rest and work. Sometimes one makes more sense than the other. You may have heard things like “be in the moment” but my dad always told me to stay or be “behind the moment.”…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Happiness.

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Happiness.

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Speaking of happiness, happy birthday, Mom! You are the best. For anyone curious, she turns 39 this year (haha). Happiness. Impossible to define for many, hopefully available to all. I rely heavily on my own experiences and perspective to bring you a great start to your Monday each week. Maybe I read more than I typically do this past week, or maybe I thought I would change it up this Monday. Either way, I threw in a few extra sources…

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The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Small But Mighty. The 3-Foot World.

The Weekly Optimist Newsletter: Small But Mighty. The 3-Foot World.

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Small But Mighty. The 3-Foot World. In the last week or so, I have been to 3 states, plenty of work meetings, and read two books. I have also been to more playgrounds than I can count, I jumped in roughly 9 different puddles, and built some serious block towers. My best effort at architecture. Whether the day is dictated by work, young kids, or uncontrollable distractions, it has become clear to me that the day is won or lost…

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