The Optimist Creed by Christian D Larson from his book Your Forces and How To Use Them
Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness and prospersity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.
Promise yourself to look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimisum come true. To think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best. To be just as enthusastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
Promise yourself to forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living create you meet a smile.
Promise yourself to give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
Promise yourself to think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in words but in great deeds.
Promise yourself to live in the faith that the whole word is on your side as long as you are true to the best that is in you.
Now you can choose to bring this into your life. For the next 21 days promise yourself that you will listen to the audio or print off these words and say them – then see what shows up in your life.
I Choose to be so strong that nothing can disturb my peace of mind.
I Choose to talk health, happiness and prospersity to every person I meet.
I Choose to make all my friends feel that there is something in them.
I Choose to look at the sunny side of everything and make my optimisum come true.
I Choose to think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best.
I Choose to be just as enthusastic about the success of others as I am about my own.
I Choose to forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
I Choose to wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living create I meet a smile.
I Choose to give so much time to the improvement of myself that I have no time to criticize others.
I Choose to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
I Choose to think well of myself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in words but in great deeds.
I Choose to live in the faith that the whole word is on my side as long as I am true to the best that is in me.
And so it is.
