The Power of Optimism

I want to recall the wise advice of two of my former podcast guests. Mo Gaudatt and Aladdin Bottle would tell us that we are not our worst thoughts. When our brain gets caught on an anxious narrative loop, it is not serving us. And if your brain does not have objective evidence for its negative assertion, ask it kindly to replace the negative thought with a positive one. Let's accept that happiness is, at best, a transient feeling. This year we are allowed not to feel happy on this random day in an invented calendar - let's all take a deep breath. We made it. We are here.