A little of what we are about

Operation: Optimism! is about reconnecting to the great things about life. For far too long, our imaginations have been hijacked by the sensationalist attack on our fear. The media is obviously at fault for a lot of this, but what is resulting has gone much further and much deeper than our nightly news.

I know this might not sound too positive, but there is a war that is being waged. On the one side are those who prey on our fears, who want us to start living a life of worry, of terror, of negativity. They want us to see all of the problems in the world, and then they want to add to those problems one worry at a time.

But there is another side, another movement brewing, a movement where people are taking back their minds. They are choosing a different path, where they have decided, enough is enough, where they think, I don't need to be afraid of the flu anymore. And even if the world will end, there is no point obsessing about it, because it does not help me.

We can all choose a different path, where we think about what is going right, and think about how we can make it better. This is not a pie-in-the-sky dream; this is informed optimism. And this is what Operation: Optimism! is all about.