I was networking this morning bright and breezy at 7.30am which I do regularly and talking to someone about how people are in business at the moment. There definitely seems to be two camps, either the positive ones, those that are determined to get on with it, no matter what is thrown at them, and those that are quite down about the economic situation, about how tough it is out there and how it’s not going to get much better soon.
I’ve always been one of those annoying positive ones but yes there is no doubt it is tough out there and I think it’s tougher for some industries that others. The general feeling is that we are all working twice as hard just to achieve the same results as last year, if we are lucky. But we are all fed up of doom and gloom, we had it in the press well before we were experiencing it, so I say, let’s make sure our cups are always half full, always look for opportunies in every situation good or bad and we will come out of this recession much stronger businesses!