Cup half full

Bruny Island
I'm an eternal optimist. I'm really a cup’s half full kind of person. I do worry a lot, you hear so many news stories and so much devastation. But I can't focus on the negatives. I couldn't exist focusing on the negatives and thinking, "we're all doomed."

I think that's what makes me get up every day and try to do something positive. I couldn't sleep at night or live with myself if I didn't do something. Just a little bit of something positive to make the world a better place. It doesn't take much sometimes to do little things that may have big consequences in a positive way. 

Don't look at the negatives and say ‘what can I do we're all doomed’ ‘I'm just one person’. I'm sick of the ‘I'm just one person’, because last time I looked I was only one person too, but you just got to keep getting in there and doing stuff. 

If everybody had a positive attitude and everybody did a little bit, how good would that be.

That's just a heap of positivity and a heap of things that can be done. So that's what I'd say. Cup half full. 

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Young Tonia with a lamb. Image: supplied

Inala Nature Tours
Inala Nature Tours
Inala Nature Tours is based on Bruny Island in Tasmania and operates birding and wildlife tours...

Dr Tonia Cochran
Dr Tonia Cochran
Dr Tonia Cochran is a zoologist, experienced naturalist and owner of Inala Nature Tours.


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