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Wednesday 14th May, 2008

the Optimist view

If you're one of life's optimists – welcome home.  If you aspire to be a positive thinker – welcome to our world. The time is right for a daily look on the bright side.  Something different. Here at Optimist World you'll find it.

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Some happy thoughts for you

A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.

Peter Drucker

Sports with a Positive Spin

Anyone who enjoys playing sport aspires to win and perform well. Sport is a great leveller; it humbles winners and makes winners out of losers. It keeps you healthy in both mind and body. The concept of Optimist World is to encourage everyone to take... Read more >>

Scottish Ski Resorts Get A Spring Clean

It's a fact that one cigarette butt pollutes upwards of 1 cubic metre of water, a coke can takes over 200 years to decompose and even orange peel will not disappear in less than a year. All these items, and many more are found on ski slopes across... Read more >>


Finding New Billy Elliotts

Ever since the success of the film of Billy Elliott, where a young working class lad from a rough, tough background ends up a top ballet dancer with The Royal Opera House, ballet for boys is no longer regarded as unacceptable. ...Read more >>

The Road to Wimbledon

As a means of encouraging youngsters living in the local London Boroughs of Merton and Wandsworth to learn about tennis, The All England Lawn Tennis Club has instigated its very own Wimbledon Junior Tennis Initiative, which who knows could lead to...Read more >>

Cricket – Chance to Shine

The aim of Chance to Shine cricket charity based appropriately at Lords Cricket Ground in North West London, and launched a couple of years ago, is to give youngsters of all ages, backgrounds, colours and creeds the opportunity to learn about a sp...Read more >>

Darius Knight Table Tennis Hero

Teenager Darius Knight took up table tennis more by accident than design but what it did for him was to help him escape from the crime and poverty of a drug ridden South East London council estate where he lived with his mother. ...Read more >>

Pedal power scoops Mark an inspiring new world record

There are certainly easier ways of   getting around the globe – and doing so on two wheels wouldn't be everyone's chosen means of a world tour.   But not for Mark Beaumont, the cosy comfort of an aircraft or even a train. Now he's celebr...Read more >>

We are still optimistic about Andy Murray for 2008

Drawn to play against the world's number one Roger Federer in the first round of the ATP tennis tournament in Dubai, few expected the unseeded Murray to win but he surprised his detractors and did just that. ...Read more >>

Heli Skiing and the environment

The Canadian Bugaboos is one of world's most environmental conscience skiing areas which is why all keen heli-skiers are hell bent on protecting its environment.  ...Read more >>

James Blake - From Harlem to Harvard - to Top Tennis Player

If ever there was ever an OPTIMIST, American tennis player James Blake fills that category. After the death of his inspirational father and a life threatening illness, against all kind of odds he achieved the near impossible. When he returned to tenn...Read more >>

Ski Club of Great Britain's campaign to save the environment

Four years ago the Ski Club of Great Britain launched a campaign to help protect the environment by creating a website aptly called 'www. respectthemountain.' It's this initiative that has forced the skiing world to focus and face up to environmental...Read more >>

Free Tennis Lessons to Curb Obesity

Giving underprivileged children the chance to learn to play tennis is one way to counteract the current obesity epidemic currently hitting this country. ...Read more >>

The youngest future British champion

Tom Daley has booked his place at this year's Olympic Games in Beijing after winning 7th place in the World Championships in Beijing only Daley is all but thirteen years old and just eligible to compete ...Read more >>

Playing golf on an ice covered lake in Austria

The idea of playing a round of golf in the middle of a frozen
lake in Austria with snow drifts as bunkers and little round holes cut into the ice on 'white' greens was daunting enough but surprisingly it turned out to be one of my most exhilar...Read more >>

One of Golf's Best Kept Secrets

How many women have attempted to take up golf but given up through sheer frustration?  I suspect quite a few. Too many private clubs refuse to give lessons to non-members and anyone not officially handicapped which is why I was pleasantly sur...Read more >>

Golf - Wee Wonders

On Monday 11th February, a group of Britain's young golf prodigies gathered at Dukes Meadow Golf Club, South West London to show off their skills under the watchful eye of top golfer Colin Montgomery.
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