PROSPERITY IN BUSINESS

This week, I was talking with a friend of mine. Seven years ago, my friend and his wife started a nice and innovative project on Internet. Right now, due to the fact that his business is going so well, he is planning to expand twice of the size of the offices.
One day around six years ago, my friend, his wife, and I were having lunch at their house and the conversation was about the new project. I remember a piece of the conversation:

• Our business is not going so well, she said
• It is not going so bad, he instantly replied

I was linteining in silence. Is the glass half full or half empty? A philosophical discussion that has always existed. Nowadays, I have heard a very creative responses to this question. Some of them are pretty funny.

• When I'm filling the glass, it is half full. Instead, when I am drinking, it is half empty.
• Questioning if a bottle is half full or half empty, I drink the bottle when the question overwhelmes me and doubt is over.

All answers are projections, metaphors of behaviour and attitude.

• If the bottle is "always" as half full, you are an optimistic
• If the bottle is "always" as half empty, you are a pessimistic
• Starting a project, you focus on what is done and finishing a project, you focus on what has to be done. I would say that you are practical.
• If you are questioning a silly thing and you take the problem with humor, I would say that you are funny guy.

The conversation that I had with my friends at the restaurant six years ago comes to my mind very often. Reaching goals is only possible when we are able to see that difficulties are smaller and solutions are bigger. I also believe that sense of humor can help a lot. To stop discussing or paying attention to something: Let's put problems aside. Sometimes, they only exist in your mind.