New York Times best-selling author John Maxwell once wrote, "The optimist sees the glass half full; the pessimist sees it half empty. The realist understands that eventually someone has to wash the glass!"

We are not so much optimists or pessimists, but rather, realists who see that the way we look at the world determines our level of happiness and comfort in it. We believe in the voice of positive psychology, that, as psychologist Martin Seligman would say, "it is possible to be happier - to feel more satisfied, to be more engaged with life, find more meaning, have higher hopes, and probably even laugh and smile more, regardless of one's circumstances."

In the book The Art of Possibility, authors Benjamin Zander and Rosamund Stone Zander tell the story of a shoe factory who sent two marketing scouts to a region of Africa to study the prospects for selling shoes.

One sent back a telegram saying,

SITUATION HOPELESS STOP NO ONE WEARS SHOES

The other wrote back triumphantly

GLORIOUS BUSINSS OPPORTUNITY STOP THEY HAVE NO SHOES *

* Adapted from "It's All Invented," The Art of Possibility
by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander.

The difference that makes the difference between the two scouts is that one had the eyes to see. The other didn't. Our role as practitioners is to help you see possibilities that exist in your life that you’re not seeing, not because you don’t want to...but because you've been trained not to see them.