Episode #59: Living with Optimism & Hope featuring Imaad Rizvi
“Optimism is the belief that something better is going to happen. It's not negating the fact that there's negativity around however, it's seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and that is what gives us that spark.”
While hope and optimism can sometimes overlap with one another, they both have their own special uniqueness to them that can positively affect the outcome of our lives in different ways.
We sometimes find ourselves in a difficult situation that we have to work through and developing a hopeful and optimistic mindset is the first step in helping us handle these seemingly insurmountable situations.
A person with a hopeful attitude:
Is more adaptable
Is less depressed
Has a greater sense of personal accomplishment
Is less burned out
Has a higher feeling of self worth
Sees challenges as setbacks, not disasters
Is more able to achieve life goals
Is more able to adapt to serious illness
Is able to tolerate greater pain
Optimism provides us with a great deal of emotional tools to overcome challenges, too. Optimism can:
Predict excellence in everything from sports to career success
Make you healthier and better equipped to fend off infectious illness and chronic diseases of middle age
Make you less likely to be depressed
Help you recover quicker from surgery
Give you more energy
Create peaceful, happier and calmer feelings
“You may not get the answer in the moment, it may come down the road at some point, it may be a month away but you just got to let it go and still have that belief that something positive is going to come out of it. That's what keeps us driven, passionate, purposeful”
Imaad Rizvi is a performance coach who works with high achievers to help them unlock their potential so they can achieve great things. The self-defined Serial Optimist joins The Audacious Living Podcast to explore the topics of optimism and hope and how each can help live richer more fulfilling lives. Imaad will also share his own personal story and what made him to decide to relocate his work from Canada to Pakistan.
Click here for more details on Imaad and the work he does.
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