Get Some More Optimism in Your Life

Tonight ABC will air Michael J. Fox's Adventures of an Incurable Optimist. MJF travels around the globe to find out what benefits being an optimist can have on anyone's everyday life, whether it be health benefits, financial benefits, or just attitudinal benefits. I cannot wait to watch the hour long special.

Fox has some incredible stops along the way:

• A golf course? For someone with Parkinson's??? Bill Murray tees off with him, and we (Murray and the viewers) get to see Fox play a round of 18 as his Parkinson's symptoms start to kick in.
• MJF, one of my favorite peeps of all time, visits one of my favorite places--good ole Wrigley Field. His question? How do Cubs fans (um, he's talking about me!) stay so optimistic year in and year out through our World Series drought? Adorable Chicagoan Bonnie Hunt tries to answer his question. (Seriously, though...why couldn't I have been at that game!?! It was just LAST month--4/15/09!)
• He also travels to Bhutan, where his PD symptoms are significantly diminished, which leaves him positing: is it the altitude or the people's optimistic point of view?

I hope you tune in to ABC tonight at 10/9 central to catch some of his adventures. Because I think all of us need to be a little more optimistic in our day-to-day lives.

P.S. If you click the link at the beginning of the post, you'll be able to get a sneak peak of tonight's show! :)