Possible Clues:

• Confident outlook
• Glass-half-full attitude
• 'When life gives you lemons, make lemonade' outlook
• Work period cut one's minute hope
• Confidence
• "Glass half-full" outlook
• 'That's good' thinking
• Work Timothy is managing to start in hope
• "The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly," per Ambrose Bierce
• "Glass half full" attitude