{"id":70,"date":"2007-07-19T07:51:05","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T14:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/positive-thinking\/why-being-a-glass-half-full-person-is-a-good-thing\/"},"modified":"2007-07-19T07:51:05","modified_gmt":"2007-07-19T14:51:05","slug":"why-being-a-glass-half-full-person-is-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/positive-thinking\/why-being-a-glass-half-full-person-is-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Why being a glass half full person is a good thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a glass half empty kind of person?<\/p>\n<p>The phrase is used to describe pessimists and people who have a negative outlook on life.<\/p>\n<p>I have from time to time been described as a glass half empty kind of person.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I like to think of myself as an <strong>optimistic, positive person<\/strong>. I believe that when people put their minds to it they can achieve amazing things.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes I find it too easy to be critical. Finding fault in things is my weakness, and sometimes it is mistaken for negativity and I get the &#8220;glass half empty&#8221; label. But it is only when we are <strong>dissatisfied with things that things change<\/strong>, and improve. Improvement tends to be because of the &#8220;glass half empty&#8221; people<\/p>\n<p>The glass half full people are happy, contented with life, pleased with the status quo. You can&#8217;t expect them to change anything, why should they when things are fine.<\/p>\n<p>Why change things if you already think the glass is half full?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why wouldn&#8217;t you change things if you think the glass is only half empty.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Be proud of being a glass half empty person. We need people who are not content with the way things are, All progress is dependant on them.<\/p>\n<p>George Bernard Shaw said it better than me when he said,<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a glass half empty kind of person? The phrase is used to describe pessimists and people who have a negative outlook on life. I have from time to time been described as a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-positive-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}