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

"You’ve to laugh, otherwise you will cry" is certainly one of my favorite sayings. It constantly brings a broad smile on my face. If you’ve an experience that you'd rather forget, just 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 will share few incidents where I laughed whole heartedly.

I had decided to start my own company; walked away from an incredibly lucrative expatriate setup, with a young family started paying dividends. In a return trip to a valet company with my older car, my two year old choose to bring up her Wagamama dinner in the back of the car.

Present score:
two year old: 1
Audi:0
"You ought to laugh"
A few months back, 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 will be able to play around and have fun. I agreed after just thinking it over for few seconds. So we put our Mission Bay house for sale and started planning for a new life in the country. It has been two or three months since then and now we are staying 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 take a look at 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 vomiting 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 return and pick her up later

3. Sit on the street and weep

To tell you the reality, I considered the second and the third options only after everything. We cleaned our daughter, went to the meet and greet and used up five minutes, went back home, I cleaned up the car, took a short coffee break, and arrived for the meeting with my prospective client with 5 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 another prospective client which was an hour's drive did I find out about it. so I had to add another additional hour for the return the key dash and on top of all that, later on, in the 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??
In fact each and every thing in life is about 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 need is a bit of positive thinking with just a little perseverance, and you would be able to achieve anything you set your mind to. And do not worry, if you do not achieve it, you will achieve experience and you can surely achieve it the very next time or the time after that.