How many of you sitting in your office right now are surrounded by people full of doom and gloom?
Does someone in your circle always can see the downside to anything positive you might have suggested.
I knew a woman once who managed to see only the bad never the good in a situation. There was always something to complain about and to comment negatively on. Even if the day had sunshine and no wind, she could always remark “But it won’t last. We are sure to get rain and there is a cold gale due.”
Of course at times she was right, but she was so exhausting.
You will know someone with a similarly bleak view on life. The problem is that they can cause an epidemic of doom.
At present it is difficult to read or hear anything positive in the news . Certainly there seems a lot to be pessimistic about. So how can we inoculate ourselves and prevent the spread of this insidious disease? I am not a Pollyanna vaccine, but there are ways to create a programme to build resilience and reduce the side effects of difficult economic times.
One action is to just use radical surgery. Amputate negative news. Don’t listen to the whining pessimist. Stop the spread gangrenous negativity. You may not be able to improve the world’s economic crisis, but you can change your reaction to it. Remember Monty Python and look on the bright side of life.
