Beware the Incredible Power of 'Negative' Thinking
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Tell me if this has ever happened to you:
You're at a cocktail party or a barbecue and you're introduced to someone.
You ask the person how he's doing and he actually proceeds to tell you that he's battling allergies, his kids are a mess, frankly the wife can be a pain and the job — for what it's worth — isn't very satisfying.
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Oh yeah, the country's a joke too. The war in Iraq, the subprime mortgage mess — you name it, we're in for it.
And here's the topper: After all that, he blasts, "And this new generation ain't like us with the fortitude to deal with it."
Wow.
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And all this from my innocuous, "How are you?"
You know, it was "almost" enough to affect my appetite. I said "almost."
My point is not to pick on this unnamed fellow, but the effect he had and others like him have on me and on us.
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They bum you out.
They take a look at a record-setting Dow and tell you, "It's the top."
They look at all these incredible corporate earnings and add, "It's just the fat cats."
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They see record low unemployment and insist, "The government's cooking the books."
I suppose a broken clock is right twice a day and I suppose markets will go down and corporate profits will go down too.
But before I hear negative people say, "I told you so," I tell them, actually you never told me when things were good. Not because they weren't, but because it wasn't in their DNA to recognize when they were.
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Beware the guy at the barbecue who's hotter than a grill at the world. He has nothing to gain hinting he could be wrong. You have nothing to gain telling him he is.
So just move on and grab a drink.
OK, maybe two drinks.
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