By DMA Senior Chase Snavely

Optimistic Mindset has honestly changed how I feel about life. When I came into this course, I didn’t know how it could help me, but as I gave the course a chance I could see that it was changing me as a person. I’m going to share some of the techniques that we learned that helped me the most. The first technique is meditation. I never meditated a day in my life before taking this course but now I’ve added it to my daily schedule. Meditating has helped me perform better while relieving some stress off of me. This course has also helped me really understand how good I have it in life. Keeping a gratitude journal helped show me that you never know what can happen next and that you should really be grateful for what and who you have.  There are other people out there that don’t have nearly as much as I do. I also really liked the “Savor a beautiful day” rewirement because I have never really taken the time to look back on a day and just be grateful for how good the day treated me. Keeping an exercise log of when I would workout helped me to gain muscle better myself. Overall, I believe this course had a very positive impact on me and the people around me because it really pushed us to be better and do better. I am going to continue to share what we did in this class so it can help others, and hopefully some of them will get to take the class in the future.