Can positive attitudes save jobs

I just read an excellent article in the new BNI UK Successnet.Paul Williams is a member in Wigan.

His company directors recently advised him that the effects of the economic downturn meant that Paul would need to make two of his staff redundant in the next week. He was devastated. He had personally recruited every member of his team and the thought of making any of them redundant appalled him.

He decided to do everything possible to prevent the job losses.He had recently attended a training event led by BNI Director Mike Holman, which inspired him to infuse a positive BNI mentality into his company. Paul brought his team together and told them about the proposed redundancies. Then he offered them the opportunity to take a very different road: they could join him in refusing to participate in a recession and instead look for new ways of improving the long-term weilbeing of the business. On a whiteboard he wrote "IN THE NORTH-WEST OFFICE WE REFUSE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN." and invited each team member to sign their name underneath it.

Then the team sent out an email to all 20 staff members across the company, giving them the chance to join their pact.The response was astounding. Within just one week, the company's finances had recovered sufficiently to rule out the proposed redundancies. Each member of staff had actively sought out opportunities for new business and the company enjoyed its best week in months. Four weeks later, they had generated more business than in any other four-week period in the previous two years.

Paul was justifiably delighted. He says, "Times might be tough but the business is out there. The BNI mentality allowed me to motivate my team to reject the media's doom and gloom and actively create new business. There's no hard sell-every member of staff just keeps their ear to the ground and recommends goods and services that genuinely help clients. It's working brilliantly.

Were it not for BNI, at least one of my team would be out of work. For me, that alone is worth the subscription!"

Do you refuse to participate in any recession by adopting a positive attitude?

Do you believe it is not what happens to us but how we react to it that determines your future?

Or do you believe a commentator on one of my previous blogs when she said "This is all just woo woo Law of Attraction nonsense, what happens to us is controlled by external circumstances?"

I am a firm believer that life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to