Tuesday 22 December 2009

You Are My Sunshine

During his lifetime, Mao Zedong aka Chairman Mao gave many inspirational speeches.

Mao’s speeches were crammed with more bon mots than a warehouse full of Christmas crackers.

Someone rather cleverly decided to capture his smartest epithets and published them as his Little Red Book, which now lines many a well stocked library shelf.

Particularly apt, after the year we’ve had, is “Wish for the sunshine, but build dykes anyway.”

It’s easy to allow fatigue and a few bad experiences to colour your perspective on the world.

But it’s more important that you turn those experiences into learnings so that you’re better prepared next time around.

That way, you can focus all your energy on being upbeat and optimistic, safe in the knowledge that you’re ready for anything.