I’m a romantic idealist whose coping mechanism is pragmatic realism

How we think becomes what we think.

The glass half full

Or half empty.

Not bad weather

Just the wrong clothes.

Thoughts are presented to us by our brain for consideration: 

what we do with those thoughts is up to us. 

Our language is a choice 

And it creates the frame through which we see the world.

So I combine the power of romantic idealism to inspire action

With the utility of pragmatic realism to focus that action only on what I can control.

The result is Pragmatic Idealism.

A realistic optimism that focuses on positive response.

I can’t do this 

becomes

I can’t do this yet. 

Can’t is impossibility.

Yet is potential.

I am lazy

becomes

At the moment I am lacking in motivation.

Lazy is fixed

A lack of motivation we can do something about.

I can’t cope

becomes

I will face today with courage.

I cannot control what happens to me

Only how I respond.

The issue is simply a situation 

not who you are.

Separate the person from the problem.

And proactively choose a realistically optimistic response.

Change your frame

Change your feeling

Change your future.