How can you become more optimistic? I will divulge five little-known “secrets” to help you immediately feel upbeat, confident, and optimistic. Research: Why Optimism Is Good for You Tons of research prove that optimists do vastly better than pessimists in their 1. Health 2. Wealth 3. Career success

Health. A growing body of "psychoneuroimmunology” medical research links how a person’s emotions affect his or her health. Some intriguing findings: Optimistic people are less likely to get sick than pessimistic or depressed people. This includes illnesses ranging from common colds to cancer. Optimistic people also get well faster than pessimists.

Wealth. A fascinating study found that self-made millionaires worry much less than people who earn as much money but have not achieved millionaire status. What is connection between being optimistic and making yourself into a millionaire? Optimists are much more likely than pessimists to make a goal of achieving millionaire status. They also keep plugging away at being frugal, investing wisely and working hard to turn financial dreams into reality. In contrast, pessimists are less likely to set net-worth goals or consistently take actions to become millionaires. Career Success.

Many companies use our firm’s Abilities & Behavior Forecaster™ pre-employment tests when choosing applicants. To start, a company has high-achievers take test. Also, underachievers may take test. Then, we identify how high-achievers score, so company can prefer hiring applicants who score like its profitable, productive employees. Intriguing finding: One of Forecaster™ test’s 18 scales is Optimism. Typically, high-achievers typically score high on Optimism test scale, while underachievers score moderate or low on Optimism. This repeated finding verifies that optimists achieve greater career success than pessimists.

So, how can you boost your optimism to achieve greater health, wealth, and career success?

Here are five immediately useful techniques. Each takes only one minute to do, so you can start fast and get results today. 1st Technique: Straight Posture & Big Steps

You Already Are Intuitive

Think back to a time when you had a hunch about something. That was intuition. It is nothing more than your mind using more than what you are consciously aware of. But how do you trust your intuition? How can you improve it and use it? First, understand what it is.

Gary Kasparov can play and beat best chess computer. How is this possible when computer can calculate positions many moves further ahead than he can. It is because of his intuitive grasp of game. Experience allows him to combine analysis with a "sense" of which move is best.

Intuition also works as a warning device. My wife and I both felt we shoudn't get on that bus in Cuenca, Ecuador. Psychic? Not at all. We knew crowded busses were prime locations for pickpockets. We saw drunk man bumping into people. We didn't think about these things consciously, but they registered in our minds, and warned us. Unfortunately, we ignored our intuition, and I was robbed.

Of course, a strong hunch can be for irrelevant reasons too. If you were hit by a blue taxi as a child, you might have "intuitive" hunches not to get into blue taxis for rest of your life. So how do you know when to trust your intuition?

Watch And Question Your Intuition