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WorksheetsDo You Choose the Positive or the Negative?
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
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
Spend time around _______ people to be optimistic.
positive
negative
lazy
pessimistic
A person who's always down on themselves might think or say which of the following?
I'm not good enough.
I'm the best at everything.
I always succeed at what I do.
Nothing ever goes wrong for me.
