Balance

I ran across these comments by Seth Godin:

We get to make a choice. And we can remake that choice each day. It's never too late to choose optimism, to choose action, to choose excellence. It only takes a moment -- just one second -- to decide.

Before you finish reading this paragraph, you have the power to change everything that's to come. And you can do that by asking yourself (and your colleagues) the one question that every organization and every individual needs to ask today: Why not be great?

Lately, I'm alternating between this kind of optimism (opportunity is right in front of us!) and a sense of overwhelming negativity (poverty, environmental concerns, illiteracy, war, terrorism, process adoption, PPQA staffing -- some of these things are obviously more important than others). 

I guess the idea is to keep moving forward; keep taking that next step toward solving the goal. It just takes a second to make the decision to be optimistic or pessimistic.