Don’t you just love the way things are. In one hand when you listen to the news and it is Doom and Gloom. On the other hand when I go to… lets say Twitter.. or any other web 2.0 site I get How Great It Is. I don’t know about you, but I like to feel good, don’t you?
It is amazing to me how people will come to your aid when it comes to critique. For example, I have miss-spelled words and the great people will tell me that I messed up, they can not help it, I love it, and it makes conversation. I remember a long time ago that a good marketer or salesperson could take a bad thing and make it good. Along with that, I remember a saying I heard a long time ago was “Any advertising is good advertising” Good or Bad.
With this concept I am sure Dish Network who I am a retailer for will make the best of the lawsuit against them in a Texas court where TiVo blamed them for stealing the ideas of recording onto a hard disk. Let’s face it, TiVo just wants to have their market share and used the courts to achieve that. As an American, I am sorry, but that is BS!
Another instance is with Toyota. Have you noticed the positive ad campaign they are putting on to save face? It reminds me of political ads, in a way. But the point here is how a company can take something bad and will turn it around. Ok..I am going to make a prediction. Tiger Woods, will come back and be more popular than before. Why? He is the greatest golfer ever and nothing like anything we have ever seen. In years our hearts will forgive and forget.
Taking something bad and making good of it is in every success story, which you can take to the bank! Do not under-estimate anyone who has a vision. Determination will come out and that strength will be noticed and accepted by the majority. Example: Richard Nixon. We immortalized a criminal. Even though he is in our history books as a known criminal, who never received a trial, but an impeachment of his pears as The Grand Jury. He was convicted! But we praised his work 30 years later on TV Media saying great things that he did. What is up with that? Talk about mixed messages.
Point is, you can take anything and make good out of it. If your day is not going to plan, look at it in a different perspective and think a little by taking a second before you react and find a way to pull the good out. This is so hard! I can not even explain, but by doing it you will feel a release and you will find yourself in a calmer place. By finding the good in things, and I do not mean by sarcasm, but the good of what can come out of anything. A challenge to you is to practice this. Shut up, listen, Think and think again of the possibilities for the better. Until then don’t say a word till you can come up with the better. Mama told me, bless her, and “If you don’t have anything good to say then don’t say anything at all!” How true it is, how true it is!
