News (and some pics) on my reboot

I am an optimist... Really

Last week, my coach and I finished going through my PAPI and I was very, very surprised.

No one who knows me would call me an optimist, myself included. So imagine my surprise when I found out that the assessment showed that I am, in fact an optimist. I immediately felt that my opinion of this assessment was correct: it's ridiculous and useless.

But upon closer inspection, I found I was wrong.

What is an optimist?
Apparently, an optimist can be someone who assesses many (if not all) factors in a situation and then makes an informed decision expecting a positive outcome. At least, that's how I understood my coach's explanation.
He explained to me that this was how I decided to go into garden leave: I assessed the financial, emotional, professional and (many) other aspects and then decided it would work out. And so far, it is.

According to my assessment, though, I do not twist facts to suit the decision that I want to make and I am not blindly optimistic, but rather cautiously so.
So, I have to admit that these assessments are not as full of hot air as I thought.

Give it the power it needs
And to really give it the power it deserves, I immediately wrote that realization down. My coach chuckled, and I told him, that by codifying it, I have given it more power and made it something that I can keep with me. Since I am prone to negativity, this will be another useful weapon in my aresenal against those dark feelings.