What If I could Be Positive In My Own Outlook

I don't watch the news anymore. I read the newspaper even less. It's not that I am not interested in what is happening in the world or that I am illiterate. It's simply the barrage of negativity that flows from the teleprompter and out of the anchors mouth. I simply can n0t pick up another news paper and read about the depravity of this world. It's like Tyler Perry's character Madea telling her granddaughter to throw hot grits on the man who is beating her because, "it sticks."

What we think and ponder on affects every area of our lives: our family, our finances, our relationships, and yes, even our business. Thoughts often become deeds. There is hardly an action that we speak or a word we say that did not start as a thought. Therefore, I believe, our thoughts are to us as a rudder is to a ship. They guide and steer us in every direction we take.

I once worked with a lady who had been divorced for over twenty years. Still every day she talked about how her ex-husband had cheated on her and left her. She spent so much time being bitter that there was nothing in her life she enjoyed. She had two wonderful and attentive children and some beautiful grandchildren that she could hardly enjoy because of the bitterness and anger she had allowed to take root in her life. Soon it began to manifest in physical ailments that evetually caused her to go into an early retirement.

Friend, you and I know that is no way to live. If you look around you, you will notice that on every corner there are businesses folding and closing their doors. They leave behind unemployed men and women with families. For you and I, failure is not an option. Our business is the lifeblood to not only us, but to our community. Small business is the mainstay in any economy. We are blessed to be our own boss and to have the freedom that small or home businesses offer. Since we are the backbone of our financial society, then we must no fall by the wayside. Instead, we must thrive and grow and multiply.

We can not afford to let our rudders be moved by the story tides of negativity. So keep your head held high. Put on blinders if you must. Do whatever you have to do to perservere in your business. Think possitive. Act possitive. Live possitive. Take each step in faith. Be strong and courageous and prove the naysayers wrong. It is our time to shine!