Over the last month, I have broken a perfect 10+ year streak. It doesn’t matter what the streak was, what matters is that I’m excited by the insights I gained by going from 13 wins: 0 losses to 13 wins: 2 misses. Note that I’ve used the optimism skill of cognitive restructuring to go fromContinue reading “Optimism & Breaking a Perfect Streak”
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Connecting Optimism
You may have seen a variation of an emotion wheel (aka:feeling wheel). The above photo is a version from Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions https://positivepsychology.com/emotion-wheel/. When Brian and I moved our series from posts on gratitude to posts on optimism, we started with a working definition of optimism. Moving from gratitude to optimism reminded me ofContinue reading “Connecting Optimism”
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