Optimist vs. Pessimist

I wrote a post on the idea of an optimist vs. a pessimist. Here's the beginning:

Oscar Wilde once defined a pessimist as “one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.”

I suppose, based on that definition, you could define an optimist as one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses neither.

What does this have to do with your business or job? Everything. Every day we are confronted with options - do we delegate or just do the job ourselves? Do we organize our space or invest time in marketing? Do we do what is urgent or what is important?

How do you make your decisions? Are you the type of person who looks at a glass with water filled to the halfway mark and says that the glass is half-empty or half-full. Or are you someone who says that both of those answers are wrong - the glass is always full, it's just a matter of what it's full of.