Dance with Optimism

Had a wonderful Christmas and New Year! What a great time of year to be with family and friends. And we are still celebrating; we have dinner with good friends tonight and a party for Kelly’s going-back-to-Berkeley on the 10th of January. Whoo, hooo! and Boo! Hoo!

Wanted to wish you all a spectacular 2009. This will be the year, given all the doom and gloom in the papers, where it is important to lower your expectations but stay optimist. It seems like pessimism abounds these days. Don’t let it get you! If you need an optimism boost, call me – a team I used to lead gave me a special perfume one day that they said reminded them of me – it’s called “positivity cologne”. If nothing else, I can share a squirt of it with you. Remember:

If you're going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.

And so, I offer you a few suggestions on how to stay optimistic in 2009: