Some people think I'm naive.  Some people tell me that positive thinking is the same as not facing up to things. I disagree.

If you can keep smiling when the news is full of doom and gloom

If you can keep pushing your start up company on and on when big businesses are cutting back and back

If you can remember what's really important and remind yourself that money isn't

If you can spend time with friends, partners, colleagues who you care about and set aside those whose negative energy drains and drags you down

If you can find neat ways to create value for your customers when others are just cost cutting

If you can focus on the future and get there one sunrise at a time

If you can think big and bright and better when others are thinking small and scared

If you accept that buying a huge flat screen TV, leather lounge suite and holiday in Hawaii on your mortgage was NOT a good idea

If you accept that everything has its time, that good times have been had and this is just a cycle

Then 'economic crisis' and 'financial maelstrom' are just words.  Intelligence, curiosity and bravery is (all) that's required.

 

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