Positive Thinking: It is Better To Laugh Than To End Up Crying
“You’ve to laugh, otherwise you will cry” is one of my favorite sayings. It always brings a broad smile on my face. If you have an experience that you would rather forget, simply laugh it off. In “Find It, Fix It, Flip It!” Michael Corbett discusses about how you have to turn your negative and destructive thoughts into positive thoughts.
I’ll share few incidents where I laughed whole heartedly.
I had decided to start my own firm; walked away from an incredibly lucrative expatriate setup, with a young family started paying dividends. In a return trip to a valet company with my older car, my two year old opted to bring up her Wagamama dinner in the back of the car.
Present score:
two year old: 1
Audi:0
“You ought to laugh”
A couple of months back, my better half came back home from a weekend in the country and said that she wanted to live in the country so that our girls would be able to run around and have fun. I agreed after just thinking it over for couple of seconds. So we put our Mission Bay home for sale and began planning for a new life in the country. It has been two or three months since then and now we are living in a beachfront house and we’re still planning for a country life.
Temporary residence – Check
Schooling for the Children – to do
Getting new Consumers in the new area -in progress.
It was Tuesdays and we had a meet and greet at a meet and greet at our daughter’s kindergarten at 10am and I even had a gathering with a prospective customer at 11.30 am. We were 10 minutes ahead of schedule for the meet and greet, so we decided that we’ll drive around and take a look at a couple of other homes. As I took a turn, I heard weird noises coming from inside the car, I turned around and saw my two year old Emily puking over again in the car. I had three opportunities with me now,
1. Clean my daughter up, run home, clean the car and get to the consumer meeting
2. Leave her at the side of the street and return and pick her up later
3. Sit on the street and cry
To tell you the reality, I considered the second and the third options only after everything. We cleaned our daughter, went to the meet and greet and spent 5 minutes, went back home, I cleaned up the car, took a small coffee break, and arrived for the meeting with my potential client with 5 minutes to spare.
The end result?
2 year old – 2
Audi – 0
New Client – 1
And to top this all off, the very next day my daughter Emily took her mother’s car key and put it in her dad’s car. Only after I had left for a meeting with another prospective client that was an hour’s drive did I find out about it. consequently I had to add one more additional hour for the return the key dash and on top of all that, afterwards, in the same day my better half was left high and dry with the kids after her car broke down.
What was the end result?
Day two score:
2 year old – 3
Audi – 0
Old Car – -1
New Client – 2
All this took place in just twenty eight hours!!
So what is the positive thinking lesson in this??
In fact everything in life is concerning positive thinking.
I could have postponed those two meetings and if something had come up on the other side; I could have lost two possibilities. All you need is a bit of positive thinking with just a little perseverance, and you would be able to accomplishing anything you set your mind to. And don’t worry, if you don’t achieve it, you will get experience and you can surely accomplish it the next time or the time after that.
Business coach and a social media marketing mentor, Mr. Jamie McKean has created The Profit Partnership as a business designed to deliver outstanding results for Small to Medium businesses here in New Zealand. To discover more on all the possibilities that are available through these steps and how you can discover how to improve your personal productivity , go to http://www.theprofitpartnership.co.nz.
