You Could Just Choose Optimism - Quarter Mile

Writing • Subscribe • Contact * * * You Could Just Choose Optimism There’s something strange and a little awe-inspiring about hearing someone ask for champagne on a two-hour domestic flight. What’s going on here? What are you celebrating? Champagne, really? Not long ago, I realized that maybe the airplane champagne-drinkers had a point. Maybe you really can take the champagne approach—not just to flying, but to everything. Maybe there are opportunities to celebrate all of the time. What if you can just choose to be optimistic, even when life feels bad? Even when things are breaking at work and people are frustrating you. Even when you show up to the airport and there’s a huge line. Even when your car breaks down and you’re going to be late. Even when all of these things happen, there is nothing forcing you to complain. You could just choose optimism. You could decide to be more jolly and cheerful. It sounds so simple, and it is. Yet many of us don’t do it (myself included).

Writing • Subscribe • Contact * * * You Could Just Choose Optimism There’s something strange and a little awe-inspiring about hearing someone ask for champagne on a two-hour domestic flight. What’s going on here? What are you celebrating? Champagne, really? Not long ago, I realized that maybe the airplane champagne-drinkers had a point. Maybe you really can take the champagne approach—not just to flying, but to everything. Maybe there are opportunities to celebrate all of the time. What if you can just choose to be optimistic, even when life feels bad? Even when things are breaking at work and