…That I am selling solutions?
Even though the problems seem to sell a great deal easier.
It’s tough to be a niche seller in this rough economy. There are days when I can find myself straying from the merchandise out of simple loneliness in lack of buyers and wandering over to look at the negatives out of sheer boredom. I want to be the best salesman and offer a product that is guaranteed to provide a result that absolutely anyone would enjoy and come back for more. But the buyers can be in a different mindset. There is the POWER shop… where addictive substances are sold and consumed ravenously, the victim kiosk where sad stories are written and shared, the 39 flavors of wrong stand where a buyer can choose how to take a simple situation and turn it into something completely…. well… wrong, and the Pavilion of Oblivious Treats, where apathy is always a bargain. Seriously… with competition like this where does common sense solution stand a chance? It’s like the likable character in a reality show… people prefer the villain.
I kid.
God knows that even I don’t buy the solutions on a daily basis. I try my hardest to continue to generate or create them… but it isn’t always an easy sell even when the merchandise is free. And why is that? Because it is simply not human to live in that happy state on a day to day basis without the challenges that allow us to recognize the solutions in the first place. Oddly enough… and although I am heartily aware that I must see myself through the trudge of the journey in order to reach my destinations… I am never fully satisfied with the length of time some of these classroom periods can last.
Yet I will refuse to close the store. I promise I am not using illegal sweatshop workers to create these solutions. I am a one man team. They are geared towards the needs of my day with a dash of hope added that others may find a common spark and see the point with me. Sometimes when I see a solution being used I feel a bit more of the strength to adopt it myself. Go figure… the positives can sometimes be as addictive as the negatives.
To anyone reading this now and patiently awaiting the miracle solution (or solutions) I seem to be referring to… I provide you with this. Solutions are everywhere. The are in answers, acceptance, a smile or a few moments of writing in a blog. They are the anti-problem. They are the ignorance of a negative. They are not looking for the problem in the first place. They are simple and they are aplenty.
I’m thinking you have at least one on your mind right now.
Be Happy. Be Well. Be.