As you grieve you may be suffering from a general lack of energy. You may feel tired and drained. You may be highly stressed and on your way to a complete burn-out. Take action now to bring your energies back into balance before it is too late.

Once you begin to bring back some self-care and nurture your positive energy your natural optimism will follow. Time will help you get back your energy back, but you may still struggle to be optimistic until you get a handle on your grief and start to heal.

If you’re reasonably good at managing your energy you will listen to your energetic needs and can sometimes balance your energy although there are still times when you may ignore your intuition and your natural optimism! You may be excellent at managing a certain type of energy and if so it should be easy for you to re-energize your life and reconnect with your natural optimistic nature.

Your energy is constantly changing so don't become down-hearted if you find that it takes more time than you expected. Make a conscious effort to replace your negative thoughts and actions with positive ones. Instead of looking at a task and saying, "It's impossible," just commit to doing it.

Instead of thinking how hopeless your life is, look at it as life’s way of telling you that something needs to change, and then work on changing it.

Optimism is about positive, can-do beliefs, expectations, choices and strategies, about knowing you are responsible for your life and that you have the ability to be effective on your own behalf.  Whatever comes your way, exude positive energies to those around you, and it will be reflected back to you!