Positive Thinking: You have to Laugh, Otherwise You'll Cry

"You have to laugh, otherwise you'll cry" is one of my favorite sayings. It always brings a broad smile on my face. If you’ve an experience that you would rather forget, simply laugh it off. In "Find It, Fix It, Flip It!" Michael Corbett talks 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 initiate my own company; walked away from an incredibly profitable expatriate setup, with a young family started paying dividends. In a return trip to a valet company with my older car, my 2 year old choose to bring up her Wagamama meal in the back of the car.

Present score:
two year old: 1
Audi:0
"You ought to laugh"
A few months ago, my wife 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 a good time. I agreed after just thinking it over for few seconds. So we put our Mission Bay home for sale and started planning for a new life in the country. It has been a couple of months there after and now we are living in a beachfront house and we are 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 nursery at 10am and I even had a gathering 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 check out 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 for a second time in the car. I had three options with me now,

1. Clean my daughter up, run home, clean the car and get to the client meeting

2. Leave her at the side of the street and come back and pick her up afterwards

3. Sit on the street and weep

To tell you the fact, I thought of the second and the third options only after everything. We cleaned our daughter, went to the meet and greet and spent five 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 very next day my daughter Emily took her mother's car key and put it in her father's car. Only after I had left for a meeting with one more prospective client which was an hour's drive did I get to know about it. consequently I had to add another extra hour for the return the key dash and on top of all that, later on, in the exact same day my better half was stranded 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 happened in just 28 hours!!
So what’s the positive thinking lesson in this??
As a matter of fact everything in life is about positive thinking.

I could have postponed those two meetings and if something had developed on the other side; I could have lost two chances. All you require is a bit of positive thinking with a little determination, and you would be able to achieve anything you set your mind to. And do not worry, if you don't achieve 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.