Optimism doesn’t mean ignoring the hard or challenging things in life, but it does mean changing how we might approach them. Do you have moments of looking at things negatively or naturally tend to have a more pessimistic outlook? It can feel difficult to re-adjust your perspective – with time and a little patience it is possible to start shifting our perspectives, simply by noticing the positives in our lives with gratitude and consideration.

The pandemic has made us really sit up and take a look at our lives and prioritise the things that we hadn’t even needed to consider before.