Need some inspiration? Here are 99 things ENS believe Committed Optimists are...
1. A Committed Optimist considers enterprise risk and acts to remove, mitigate or manage downside effects
2. Committed Optimists resist false hopes and dreams
3. Committed Optimists don’t get disappointed
4. Committed Optimists prosper by buying out pessimists
5. Committed Optimists work for and expect only the best
6. Committed Optimists prevail not just endure
7. Committed Optimists recognize that with 8% unemployed you have a working population of 92%
8. Committed Optimists make opportunities out of difficulties
9. Committed Optimists can do whatever they think they can
10. Committed Optimists don’t try to out-wit nature
11. Committed Optimism is too rare in the world
12. Committed Optimists excel
13. Committed Optimists pay more local rates and taxes
14. Committed Optimists know about non-optimists and put strategies in place to deal with negativity
15. Committed Optimists assume the best not the worst
16. Committed Optimists are never content with the status quo and looks for continuous improvement
17. Committed Optimists persevere to make enterprises better whatever the opportunities or challenges
18. Committed Optimists look for, resolve and learn from apparent contradictions
19. Committed Optimists find another way if the going gets too tough
20. Committed Optimists focus on what is needed, rather than on what’s not needed.
21. Committed Optimists keeps on experimenting
22. Committed Optimists know that a happy staff equals a happy enterprise life
23. Committed Optimists are quietly confident of success
24. Committed Optimists do not succumb to the to the limiting effects of fear
25. Committed Optimists keep themselves and others spirits up high
26. Committed Optimists create their own enterprise certainty and stability
27. Committed Optimists do not put their heads in the sand and pretend that trouble will be over soon without any great effort on their behalf
28. Committed Optimists hold onto their dreams
29. Committed Optimists make their own luck
30. Committed Optimists know that optimism is contagious and overcomes killjoys
31. Committed Optimists defend what they must, attack what they need and take risks to advance their enterprise
32. Committed Optimists place warranted trust in people, situations and events while safeguarding their enterprises from fraud , deceit and scams
33. Committed Optimists are alert - not blind - to enterprise realities
34. Committed Optimists focus on the fundamentals of good entrepreneurial practice, always
35. Bull or bear markets, crisis or no, Committed Optimists act according to the realities of the time.
36. Committed Optimists look for another way if the path to their dreams becomes too difficult
37. Committed Optimists keep their heads up
38. Committed Optimists hold onto concepts that work but are not wedded to them
39. Committed Optimists focus on sustainable outcomes
40. Murphy’s Law says that if anything can go wrong it will. Murphy was an optimist
41. Committed Optimists do not over-estimate the likelihood of positive events and under-estimate the likelihood of negative events and situations
42. A Committed Optimists maintains a view of the world as a positive place
43. A Committed Optimist generally believes that people, situations and events are inherently positive and that most situations work out in the end for the best
44. Committed Optimists are careful about what they are optimistic about
45. Committed Optimism is a self fulfilling prophecy
46. Enterprises of Committed Optimists succeed
47. Committed Optimists glasses are always nearly full
48. Committed Optimists always looks on the bright side of life
49. Committed Optimists do not misplace optimism, are not naive or over-optimistic about planned outcomes, but appreciate that things can work out wrong as well as work out right.
50. Committed Optimist will tend to lead a more productive and healthy life with less stress and worry by being positive, happy and realistic.
51. Committed Optimists are realists
52. Committed Optimists recognize, act on and are undaunted by realities
53. Committed Optimists are spurred into action by situations and events and have the resilience to believe that such action will result in meaningful change even in the face of adversity.
54. The opposite of Committed Optimist is a non-optimist. Watch out though, if you go too far you become an unhelpful pessimist
55. Committed Optimists maintain a view of the world as a positive place.
56. Committed Optimists are not reckless
57. Committed Optimists regularly step back from their enterprise and quietly reassess their strategy in light of changing situations
58. Committed Optimists call on professionals to help them change the way they operate
59. Committed Optimists do not navel gaze
60. Committed Optimists maintain an ability to see the support around them
61. Committed Optimists recognise that nothing is forever and everything changes
62. Committed Optimists recognise that there are no silver bullets but clouds do have silver linings
63. Committed Optimists recognise that the world is a complex place full of wonderful challenges and opportunities
64. Committed Optimists recognise the need to constantly change
65. Committed Optimists recognise that long term trends look bright
66. Committed Optimists recognise that the going will be tough so they must get going
67. Committed Optimists recognise that they are not alone
68. Committed Optimists recognise that there are more resources available than are immediately apparent
69. Committed Optimists understand that the past does not equal the future.
70. Committed Optimists see themselves as a cause, not an effect.
71. Committed Optimists accept pain, failure and disappointment as a part of life, not the entirety of it.
72. Committed Optimists know that anything is possible.
73. Committed Optimists create their own circumstances, circumstances don't create them.
74. Committed Optimists control their attitude towards life.
75. Committed Optimists always have a choice.
76. Committed Optimists remember that life is short
77. Committed Optimists know that even the longest journey begins with a single step
78. Committed Optimists know that life has a way of reminding one that it could be worse
79. Committed Optimists know that until one understands the low and darker side of life, the appreciation of the awe-inspiring highs will remain stagnant
80. Committed Optimists convey optimism to other people
81. Committed Optimists seek out listen and heed optimistic music, books, websites, situations and people.
82. Committed Optimists realise that it's not about what happens to them, it's about how they you react when it happens.
83. Committed Optimists learn to act as if the enterprise that they visualize is already there.
84. Committed Optimists create their thoughts, thoughts create intentions, and intentions create reality.
85. Committed Optimists know that success lies just beyond their thoughts.
86. Committed Optimists always keep trying.
87. Committed Optimists take the good with the bad
88. Committed Optimists are more relaxed, thankful and don’t take themselves too seriously
89. Committed Optimists don’t over analyse things
90. Committed Optimists control things within their control and don’t try to control things out of their control
91. Committed Optimists laugh at themselves and with others
92. Committed Optimists choose to be so
93. Committed Optimism is a discipline that needs hard work to acquire
94. Committed Optimism is a hard road less-travelled
95. Committed Optimists have the guts to try and find out
96. Committed Optimists are clever, innovative and creative
97. Committed Optimists don’t waste opportunities
98. Committed Optimist stay strong
99. Committed Optimists drive for exceptionally high levels of achievement
