Sunday, October 18, 2015

Infectious positivity!


 

 

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Hi,I remember my Dad getting me up in the wee small hours of the morning to watch the All Blacks playing live on the other side of the world!I am sure there are many of us revsiting these memories in the last few weeks as the RWC 2015 action unfolds live from the UK.There is nothing like watching the All Blacks live no matter how old you are.Replays are fairweather folly but live is grass roots boys own action.From the raw emotion of the national anthem and the haka through to flying horizontal into  every ruck,lifting and stretching at every lineout,grunting at scrumtime through to laying life and limb on the line there is nothing like being there live on the couch playing our part.

Crikey it is exciting/emotional and for me it does matter so Im going for it.I do,however,respect the views and opinions of those for whom it isnt such a big deal but I bet even you guys and girls are at least slightly/mildly affected in a positive way…..hope so anyway!!...positivity is infectious!!
Fletcher says; “go away Dad”when he is so rudely awoken at 3.45am to watch Wales v South Africa??….ok so he wont have fond memories of that particular time in 2015!Pretty cool playing lounge test match rugby with Dad at half time in the later game though!...he has a mean fend off in the early stages of development!!

Bring on semi-finals weekend at 48 on the big screen!

I hope you are enjoying life whatever you are up to, take care have a good one.….……Cheers Jonesey!

 

Harry and the Hendersons reckon all said and done…..Rugby will be the winner!!! J

 

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“I am too positive to be doubtful,too optimistic to be fearful and too determined to be defeated.” Larry Ellison

 

Positive people generate an infectious aura around them.

We need to surround ourselves with positive people.

Seems straight forward but not always easy to do because of the negativity that confronts us daily.

Positive people outlast the cynics and the tall poppy cutters.

I was lucky enough to spend time with a number of positive people recently which inspired me!

These were optimists who saw opportunity rather than pessimistic doom or failure whilst looking at the same situations.

To these refreshingly different individuals there is no such thing as difficulties,instead they see them as opportunities and set about solving these with innovative yet simple ideas.

One guy I met even announced to multi levels of Management in a Board presentation I was in with him that he welcomed problems because most people didn’t like them so he had built his business out of embracing and solving them!

WOW….what a simple business strategy for success…welcome and solve problems vs ignoring them and having them escalate.

So the advice from the optimists is to rise above the pessimists and to stay positive whilst persevering with innovation and solving problems others have filed in the too hard basket!

One simple thing I did and you can too is to treat every contact you have internal or external as an opportunity to add value either by solving a problem or meeting a need.

I am constantly amazed how many people don’t do this and instead they think the worst every time the phone goes or an email appears…..you simply cant afford to do that!

So your mission in the coming week (should you decide to accept it) is to add a positive person to your network and to solve some problems rather than create some for others!!! Go for it !!!

 

“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.” Colin Powell

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