114 // Outlooks on Life: Optimism
The Mindful Kind
Rachael Kable
4.6 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to episode 114 of The Mindful Kind podcast, and the final episode of the outlooks on life mini-series. If you haven't yet heard the rest of the series, you might like to listen to episode 112 about realism and episode 113 about pessimism before tuning in to this episode about optimism!
In this episode, you'll discover:
- What optimism is
- The pros and cons of being optimistic
- Situations optimism can be really useful
- A great meditation practice for optimistic people
- What optimistic realism is
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I hope you have a wonderful week, Mindful Kind!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to the mindful kind. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm your host, Rachel Cable, and I'm here to share insights into my mindfulness journey |
| 0:12.3 | and inspire you to create your own. |
| 0:14.9 | Each week, this podcast will bring fresh and exciting news about mindfulness, |
| 0:19.7 | from my personal experiences to useful tools and different |
| 0:23.6 | mindful techniques. |
| 0:28.6 | Hello and welcome to episode 114 of the Mindful Kind podcast and the third and final episode of the Outlooks on Life |
| 0:40.5 | series. If you haven't yet listened to the rest of the series, be sure to check out episode 112 |
| 0:46.0 | about realism and 113 about pessimism before you listen to the rest of this episode, which, as you |
| 0:52.8 | may have guessed, is all about optimism. |
| 0:55.9 | So optimism has been defined as a tendency to expect positive outcomes and confidence about |
| 1:02.6 | future improvements. For example, this year I made a lot of Christmas presents by hand, |
| 1:08.5 | including bath bombs for some of my friends and family. I bought |
| 1:12.1 | all the ingredients to make bath bombs. I ordered the moulds and special bath bomb colours online. |
| 1:18.2 | I researched a heap of different recipes and decided what would work best and every step of the way |
| 1:24.2 | I believed it would all work out. I felt excited about creating these beautiful |
| 1:29.1 | bath bombs and giving them to some of the people that I love. Anyway, my partner deck, who tends to be a bit |
| 1:35.0 | more realistic, was noticing that it was getting close to Christmas and the bath bombs were taking a lot |
| 1:39.9 | of time and it wasn't guarantee that they were going to work, which was true. I'd never made |
| 1:46.1 | them before. I was running out of time and I didn't know how it was all going to turn out. But I was |
| 1:51.9 | feeling really optimistic about it and kept hoping for the best. Luckily for me, the recipe did work |
| 1:57.4 | and I made some beautiful bath bombs but I didn't quite reach my original optimistic |
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