Latest / Just For Today / 158. Optimist Creed
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- Cindy Marler: Thank you for joining us here on the Just For Today podcast, where we do things just for today. We just spend a few minutes together every single day thinking about something, taking an action step. Today I want to share with you a something written by a gentleman named Christian Larsen back in 1912, back in the 1900s, as the kids say. And it's become known as something called the Optimist Creed. It was just a set of positive principles that this man wrote to help our mindsets. I've printed it, I've rewritten it, I've hung it in my bathroom over the years. I listened to it. I have myself reading it in my voice memos on my phone and I listen to it. And I'm gonna read it to you guys. But I encourage you just to Google it called the Optimus Creed, print it out, write in your own handwriting and hang it somewhere, just so you can have these positive principles replacing all the negativity that naturally comes into our head. So here it goes. I promise myself to be strong enough that nothing disturbs my peace of mind. I promise myself to speak about health, happiness, and prosperity. I promise myself to help friends recognize the good within themselves. I promise myself to focus on the positive side of things. I promise myself to think, work, and expect the best. I promise myself to be enthusiastic about other people's success. I promise myself to learn from past mistakes while focusing on future achievement. I promise myself to maintain a cheerful attitude toward others. I promise myself to invest more energy in improving myself than in criticizing others. I promise myself to be too strong for worry, too noble for angry. For anger and too happy to allow trouble to dominate my thinking. I promise myself to think well of myself and to demonstrate that belief through my actions rather than merely talking about it. That's it. The optimist creed. Go find it, print it out, rewrite it, hang it somewhere, think about it. What today I want you to promise yourself that you will find the optimist creed, print it out, and think about it. I'll talk to you tomorrow.