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We have all met them – shiny happy people who never have a care in the world, and deem it necessary to spread their “joy” to everyone around them. They stand in front of you with their hair on fire, and are just ecstatic that they don’t ever have to worry about their ears getting cold ever ever again…

That isn’t what I am about.  I am not Mr. Marty HappyPants.  I do not believe that every steaming pile of…pudding…has a hidden treasure in it if “we just look hard enough”.

That being said, I do strongly believe that how you decide to react to things in life and in business will determine how well you weather the challenges that will surely come along.  You will have problems, you will be insulted, hurt, even betrayed.  But you have a choice about how it impacts you and how much of it you carry with you as you move forward.  The heavier the baggage you decide to carry, the more difficult the journey will be.

This may seem a bit simplistic.  You may ask, “what about the person that has experienced <insert horrible life changing event here>?”  To this I say “stop it, this is my blog”.  I’m kidding.

You are correct, some people go through horrible things.  People have been victimized in almost unimaginable ways, by people that I personally believe are truly evil.  But I believe they still have a choice to make.  Understand, I realize their lives will be forever changed by these types of events and my heart aches for them.  No one should ever be victimized, and I don’t have the audacity to say “suck it up and move on”.  However, I will say that they can choose to turn the pain inward and let it eat them alive, or they can chose to turn that pain into passion and use it to make some semblance of good come out of the horror they suffered.  Thankfully, for most of us, we will never know what it is like to live after being hurt like that.

So this blog is about you and I, and how we choose to deal with life and career.  What I hope to show you here, is that we make choices about how we react to the events in our lives, and that it impacts us, our loved ones, and our success on a daily basis. In my ever so humble opinion, there are two basic types of people in the world.  Those that live their lives based on what has happened to them, and those that live their lives in spite of it.

I hope that by talking about these things, we will all leave the table a little better equipped to make positive decisions in our lives.  Please leave your comments or questions.  I would love to hear what you think, and you, dear reader, will help shape this site into what it needs to be.