“You have to laugh, otherwise you’ll cry” is certainly one of my favorite sayings. It constantly brings a wide smile on my face. If you have an experience that you’d 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 a small number of incidents where I laughed whole heartedly.
I had decided to start my own company; walked away from an incredibly profitable expatriate setup, with a young family started paying dividends. In a return visit to a valet company with my older car, my 2 year old choose to bring up her Wagamama dinner in the back of the car.
Present score:
two year old: 1
Audi:0
“You have to laugh”
A few months back, my better half came back home from a weekend in the country and said that she wished to live in the country to ensure that our girls would be able to run around and have a good time. I agreed after just thinking it over for few seconds. So we put our Mission Bay home for sale and began planning for a new life in the country. It has been a couple of months since then and now we’re 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 Customers 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 nursery at 10am and I also had a meeting with a potential consumer at 11.30 am. We were ten minutes ahead of schedule for the meet and greet, therefore we decided that we’ll drive around and take a look at a couple of other houses. As I took a turn, I heard weird noises coming from inside the car, I turned around and saw my two year old Emily vomiting 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 customer meeting
2. Leave her at the side of the street and come back and pick her up afterwards
3. Sit on the street and moan
To tell you the fact, I considered the second and the third possibilities only after everything. We cleaned our daughter, went to the meet and greet and used up 5 minutes, went back home, I cleaned up the car, took a small coffee break, and arrived for the meeting with my prospective client with five minutes to spare.
The end result?
2 year old – 2
Audi – 0
New Client – 1
And to top this all off, the next day my daughter Emily took her mum’s car key and put it in her dad’s car. Only after I had left for a meeting with one more potential client that was just one hour’s drive did I find out about it. consequently I had to add another additional hour for the return the key dash and on top of all that, afterwards, in the exact same day my better half was left high and dry with the children 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 each and every thing in life is in relation to positive thinking.
I could have postponed those two meetings and if something had come up on the other side; I could have lost two chances. All you require is a bit of positive thinking with just a little persistence, and you will be able to accomplishing anything you set your mind to. And don’t worry, if you do not accomplish it, you’ll gain 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.








