Do You Choose the Positive or the Negative?

Choosing the positive is better than choosing the negative.

• True

• False

• Sometimes

• Never

What is an Optimist?

• Someone who tends to see the good side of most situations and expects things to work out for the best.

• Someone who tends to focus more on the problems or challenges of a situation and expects more-negative outcomes.

What is a Pessimist?

• Someone who tends to see the good side of most situations and expects things to work out for the best.

• Someone who tends to focus more on the problems or challenges of a situation and expects more-negative outcomes.

Strategies for maintaining an optimistic outlook include:

• Practicing gratitude and positive self-talk

• Focusing only on negative outcomes

• Avoiding all challenges and risks

• Ignoring personal achievements

Changing negative self-talk into positive self-talk can promote emotional health by:

• Replacing negative thoughts with positive affirmations

• Ignoring your feelings completely

• Blaming others for your problems

• Suppressing all emotions

Optimism or having a positive outlook can help you deal with life’s ups and downs by:

• helping you cope better with challenges

• making you avoid all problems

• ensuring you never feel sad

• guaranteeing constant success

One way to be optimistic is to ________ on the positive.

• focus

• dwell

• ignore

• complain

One way to be optimistic is to view mistakes as a chance to ________.

• learn

• ignore

• repeat

• hide

One way to be optimistic is to keep a sense of ________.

• humor

• anger

• fear

• doubt

Spend time around ________ people to be more optimistic.

• positive

• negative

• lazy

• pessimistic