Rebuilding Optimism

Pessimism, both experienced by individuals or groups, must overcome. However, the firmness needed in the limit of a psychiatric problem, because pessimism awakened from the experience and we can not change things that have happened. Some there are things that might be done to rebuild our optimism:


1. Find positive things from the experience of the past, any as its bitter that experience. In failure, even though there are small successes is one slip, try and find success is grateful existence. This effort will treat at least some of the feelings of suffering that we destroyed. "But somehow I have failed" Discard far mind, because these thoughts will not help us in God's grace to reach the next. God will only add his favor on the people who want to give him the favor, although it slightly.
2. Up return target that we want to achieve. Do not make a habit of over-target. We must indeed optimistic, but we also need the ability to measure yourself. We also need to examine more charming way what we might do to achieve a certain target. The way the Iraqi agresor / imperialist U.S. may be used as an example. From the beginning of the Iraq says will not win in battle. But they only said "the U.S. will face difficulties when dealing with the army and the Iraqi people's resistance." Iraq also count in the field where it can provide a fierce resistance against the agresor / colonists are. Iraq may try to win the battle field in the opinion and the diplomatic world. This is an example of how one should define the target and the ability to see the limitations.

3. Broken into large target targets small success can be seen immediately. Often there are useful to see the success of short-term success of a long-term target. This will be the enthusiasm and optimism in ourselves. Of course we must continue to give what we get from achievements targets are small. Never thought in the heart, "Ah like this new, our target is still far away." This attitude is not to feel optimistic.

4. Trust in God. Recognizing the existence of a power that can help us at the obstacles we face is a capital base that is quite effective in building optimism. Trust must be done simultaneously with efforts to improve our strategy and target achievements.

5. The last step we need to change our view of themselves and failure. We need more love and respect themselves. Do not we continue to ridicule themselves. "I am a foolish person, I can not do anything." This is not feel low attitude, but the attitude of the refuse that has been excess a bounty God to us.