Million Dollar Habits – Page 63
enormous impact on the strength of your immune system.
The habit of optimism,
combined with a positive mental attitude, seems to strengthen and increase the t-
cells in the body which are responsible for resisting and overcoming the various
factors that contribute to disease and illnesses of all kinds.
Psychologists have now developed a profile
of what they call the
“hardy
personality.”
This is the man or woman who seems to respond positively and
effectively to adversity and setbacks. He or she is optimistic and forward thinking.
It seems that the more optimistic you are, the stronger
and more resilient is your
mind and body. As a result, you will have higher levels of energy and a quicker
recovery rate from fatigue. You will seldom be ill for any reason.
If you catch a
cold or flu, which will be rare, you will bounce back quickly as the fortified t-cells
in your body quickly counter attack and eradicate the infection that is causing it.
Think About What You Want
You develop the habit of optimism by disciplining yourself
to keep your thoughts
and words on what you want, and off of what you don’t want. You become an
optimist by thinking continually in terms of the specific
actions that you can take
immediately to achieve the goals that are most important to you. The busier you
become working toward the accomplishment of goals and objectives that you have
set for yourself, the more energy
and enthusiasm you will have, the faster you will
move ahead, the more you will get done, and the happier you will be.
Earl
Nightingale once wrote that,
“Happiness is the progressive realization of a
worthy ideal.”
When you are working hour by hour and day by day toward the
