Oh I think you can recapture some of that passion and possibility thinking from youth... perhaps not carte blanc at first, but with practice. Optimism can be learned! I'm reading a book by Seligman about how to...

Changing how you view things, your perspective... rather than being caught up in the muck of things, but rising about it.

Right now it would be easy for me to get bogged down in the doldrums of filing and hunting materials for volunteers working the superbowl... but instead I keep trying to focus on HOW KEWL! I'm helping the Host Committee organize this great experience!

TC