Why cats are like people

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As the oft quoted cliche goes, “Business would be easy if it wasn’t for the customers”.
My recent experience with a course attendee highlighted this when I received a multi page complaint letter regarding one of my courses.

The fact that the person hadn’t paid but had done the whole course and then refused to pay highlighted their lack of integrity. But the fact that they had often raised negative issues during the course that all the other course attendees disagreed with and would comment on never caused this person to think that maybe they were the problem.

This is probably the worst case of mindset I have ever encountered so that is why it has stuck in my mind. How can someone be so obsessed with a negative that they ignore all the positives in front of them?
If you were dying of thirst in the desert and came to an oasis would you refuse to drink because you couldn’t find a clean glass??

So how do we avoid this??
Well we don’t avoid it, we have to learn to confront it. Now that’s easy for me to say because I am a glass half full kind of guy. But my lovely wife is a glass permanently bone dry kind of girl so I can tell you that what she does works.

She constantly tells herself that she is going to naturally look for the problems, naturally see the negatives, automatically find a hundred reasons to not believe something. THEREFORE she chooses to look for solutions, chooses to look for positives, chooses to pursue the good KNOWING that she won’t naturally do that.

Now the things that used to terrify her don’t bother her at all. The issues that used to debilitate her she manages and manages with relative ease. Is it harder for her than I? Sure. Is she getting amazing results that she never dreamed possible? Sure, and that’s the key thing. Are you growing into someone more positive, loving and successful? or are you like my attendee, burying yourself under a mountain of negativity??

It’s your life, I say live it to the full. Live today like it was the last day of your life. Find some random acts of kindness to bestow on another, hug a stranger, oh and go and buy another house

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