Wanna hear my troubles?

What you think about determines everything else. Your attitude, and your outcome.

If that’s true, then all you have to do is determine what you want the outcome to be. Determine what it would take to acquire your goal then start thinking about that and don’t stop until you get it.

Odd that some people are not at all sure there’s a God but the same folks are quite positive there’s a devil. Or that the good things in life will never happen to them but fully expect life’s miseries to fall squarely on their heads. You’d think that they’d figure out that they do indeed get what they expect just about 100% of the time, and since they’re gonna get buggered again just about any minute now, why not try the positive thinking route and see what happens? Got nothing to lose. But they rarely do. The devil you know is better than the devil you don’t know, right? Or the angels you don’t know, in this case.

Matt McGee has another really good post over at his site on this topic, and says,

It cracked me up tonight when I got a Google News alert that told me about a Small Business Survival Expo in Tampa next month. Do you really want to attend a Small Business Survival Expo? Not me. I much prefer something like a Small Business Marketing Unleashed Conference.

One sounds like a gloomy gathering of weak businesses on the way down; the other sounds like a bright get-together of strong companies on the way up.

You put the top 100 sales reps in America in the same room and not one of them, not one, will be the doom-and-gloom type with a woe-is-me attitude. Put the worst 100 sales reps you can find together and just the opposite will be true. There’s absolutely nothing different about the first group over the second except the way they have chosen to think. Thinking in a manner in which you expect good things to happen involves taking action steps which are made possible by the very thought processes themselves. Losers will say that the top 100 were born with special talents or possess some special skill that’s only taught to high-ranking Republican children. Horse-pucky.

The only difference is the way they think, the actions they take, and the results they expect. You absolutely get what you think about and expect. So what do you want?

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Phillip Crum is the Chief Idea Officer of MarketingMeasure located at 2414 Arbuckle Court Dallas, TX 75229, and is committed to the idea of helping small business owners do a better job of finding their next customer or client. He and his two sons,Tyler and Preston, also own a Sir Speedy Printing franchise and employ those additional capabilities in the overall marketing services menu of offerings. Phillip can be reached at 214-213-7445, or pcrum@MarketingMeasure.com.