Skills For Success

The other day I was talking to Robert Donnelly from Bear Trap Communications -- one of the people on my team. We were discussing an incident that had happened to me that could have been construed as having been handed a lemon.

However, as a coach who tells people you need to look at what is right, or good about your situation, I said to Bob, my marketing guy, I'd like to turn this into lemonade.

Bob looked me squarely in the eye -- and without losing a second -- said, "or lemon meringue pie"!

What a concept. I loved it. From now on forget about making lemonade out of a lemon, I want lemon meringe pie.

Later that same day I received an email from a client who "dumped" on me -- everything that was going wrong.  At least a dozen lemons here.

So, with lemon meringe pie in my mind's eye, I started looking for those nuggets -- albeit small sometimes -- that were good in her life.  Things she could hold up and say, "Yes, that works" or "Yes, I was successful there."

Sometimes a visual like Lemon Meringue Pie is all we need to start looking for what works and how we can make it work even better.

You know what I'm going to have this weekend for dessert?  That's right --LEMON MERINGUE PIE!!!