Whiner or Realist?
With business looking better but not great, should we focus on the reality of our current situation as compared with more prosperous times, or should we focus on the possibilities yet to come in our businesses and lives? The truth is that we ALL focus on the reality AND the possibility--the concern is more about the degree to which we dwell on each.
So, what's your story?
Take notice of what you are talking about and thinking about throughout the day. Are you talking about what was or what might have been? Focusing on how the market was previously? Dwelling on that deal you almost closed that should have made your year-but instead, the bottom fell out? Is your mind plaguing you with comparisons and contrasting the present situation with how things were in 2008, or even 2007? The thing to remember is that story is over. Regardless of how painful it was, how close you came or how drastic the change was, it is now OVER! One thing you can do right now, today, is to stop talking about it. Just catch yourself mid-sentence and.... stop.
Where is the possibility?
Focus on what you have--not on what you have lost. As they say, "reality is relative." And of course, reality is relative to our particular situation. Remind yourself that 33% of the world's population does not have access to clean drinking water, so there are approximately 1.9 billion people who would trade places with us in an instant. So stop and think: what do you have? What are your skills? What else can you try? And what are the possibilities now with things just as they are? 2009 has exactly 7 months left in it. You decide.
"Your imagination is the preview to life's coming attractions."
Albert Einstein
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