The Shuffler's Guide To Dealing With A Cold...


Isn't the mind a wonderful thing?

Lesley laughs at me before I go to any seminar...as I always seem to have a cold 'appear' the day before I go.

Now...I am not, for a moment, suggesting that I am good at creating my own illnesses consciously!

I think that, because I am at a 'heightened state of awareness' (OK - rushing around to get everything done!)...that I must batter my body into submission!

Yesterday...my brother, Mark, and I put on a seminar for the first time. (It was on marketing both off-and online for small businesses).

And...guess what 'appeared' the night before?

That little sore feeling in my throat...that is the signal that I'm getting a cold!

(God...I'm SO predictable!)

But...worries about whether I'd lose my voice for my presentation aside...I was too busy making sure that everything went according to plan to 'worry' about it.

The seminar went as well as we could have hoped...even though a couple of the delegates thought that I was a little too 'honest' (my words!) in my appraisal of their web efforts!

Do I care? Well...I only care to tell the TRUTH (in my opinion, of course), whether it is what they want to hear or not.

Anyway...I woke up this morning back home...and 'normal service' resumed.

I've just started what Lesley calls 'shuffling' and feeling sorry for how REALLY 'ill' I am...so I thought that I'd better write this to take my mind off of things before I have a little 'lie down' on the sofa!

Though...because I KNOW a positive, healthy mindset doesn't allow much room for a SERIOUS cold...perhaps I'll just rest up for a couple of hours instead of the couple of days that I used to when I had to 'work' for a living!

If you're a man, you'll understand how important 'shuffling' is to making sure that our better halves know how REALLY 'under the weather' we are.

And...if you are one of those 'better halves'...then I know that you understand that I AM the 'weaker sex'...and PROUD of it!