Today I want to tell you about a really neat conversation I was having last week over dinner with some colleagues.
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And one of the things we were together, we were actually celebrating, but what we really got on the topic was.
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Instead of spending our time talking about the difficulties of the year, what we decided to talk about was, despite the challenges, what have been your blessings?
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And as we went around the table and every couple had an opportunity to share, it was so neat to hear.
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All the different things that people could share that were blessings to them.
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And it got me thinking about a story, and I'm not going to share all the details because I'm not a great storyteller, but the fundamentals are this long time ago, there were a set of twins.
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One was incredibly optimistic.
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One was incredibly pessimistic.
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their parents were baffled.
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How could they be so different?
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They were twins.
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They took him to a psychiatrist or a psychologist or whatever the case may be.
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They put the extreme pessimist kid in a room full of toys, told him he could play with anything.
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He could have anything.
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They took the other kid that was an optimist by nature, put him in a room full of horse manure and said, Hey, this is your room, go have at it.
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And of course the kid who was the pessimist.
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You know, sucked his thumb, stayed in the corner, said there, there are too many toys.
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He couldn't decide.
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He got completely overwhelmed by the situation and kind of shut down.
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Well, after an hour or so, they went and checked on the optimist kid.
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And basically as they go in the room, they see the kid hands and knees just digging like crazy through all this horse manure.
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And the psychologist says, what are you doing?
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And the kid says, with all this poo in here.
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There's bound to be a pony somewhere.
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So that's my message to you today is in the midst of all the poo, even as hard as it might be, try and remember there's gotta be a pony in here somewhere.
