How can you use optimism to your advantage?

Optimism is a skill, like as cycling, working with Excel or making coffee. You can learn it. These are the five most important lessons to make optimism every day just like coffee. Identify your goal. Your real goal. What you really want. Not what others want. Not what you think you should do or want. Find out what it really is that makes you tick. Make mistakes. Make them with conviction. Don't dwell on them too long. Make them and accept them. Hold them to the light. Analyse them. Learn from them. And carry on. Be happy. Take some optimism and add a hefty dose of realism, supplemented with a bunch of decisiveness. Look cheerful. Know that terrible things can happen. Be happy when they don't. Heaven can collapse. Optimism is a useful technique, pink glasses are not. See things as they are, but interpret them as it suits you. Find a buddy. Find a partner who wants to share things with you. In love, in business, in pleasure, in sports or in therapy. Do not build hurdles yourself. Others are more than happy to do that for you. Stay positive. Your opportunities will follow your attitude to life and not the other way around. You have to change your attitude mindset first and then the opportunities will follow. Don't let the outside world determine your inner world. You determine that yourself.