When you arise in the morning…
Listen to Friday’s keynote, Think Like An Optimist!
The late Daniel Kahneman said that parents should give their children optimism.
If you listen by Wednesday noon l will ping you the accompanying KWC Wonderwall, 👇👇👇.
It’s packed with resources aimed at making you more optimistic in 2025.
On Friday 218 souls came to the Zoom room for a soupçon of Scottish optimism and heard these five themes:
🔥 Optimism, Happiness, Melancholy & Joy
Happiness ensues from purpose, melancholy is part of being human, know what simple pleasures give you joy*.
*frittata, reading, a big telly.
🔥 Taller, Thinner, Richer, Better Looking
Comparison is a zero sum game, there will be someone snazzier over the horizon; develop an internal locus of control and know that bad sh*t happens to everyone.
🔥 Forgive Yourself Everything
Treat yourself as well as you treat your pet, your cat doesn’t even know she’s cat**; and be your best advisor, ready to forgive and hold yourself to account.
**dog, goldfish, hamster.
🔥 Keely, Molly & Gordon
All those silver medals before Olympic gold illustrate success is hard won; choose your sacrifice wisely, then go on the adventure of your life.
🔥 Things can only get better?
Not so, anything can surely get worse; practise negative visualisation to steel yourself for inevitable setbacks and better appreciate all you have.
Live in the present… Live today… LIVE NOW… 😎🔥❤️.
And when you 🐥 up today, when you meet failure…
Start again tomorrow… ☀️☀️😎.
KWC Wonderwall includes an article to elucidate each theme and a number of cracking references that set you up for a terrific 2025.
(I especially commend A Theraputic Journey by Alain de Boton on Audible. It’s compelling, consoling and inspirational.)
Have a great day now, you ain’t getting it back!
