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Is The Sky
Really Falling?
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he sky is falling. The sky
is falling." Do you remem-
ber this quote from the
old fable "Chicken Little"?
The chicken frantically
shouted these very words
after an acorn hit her in
guy by nature.
When my turn came up, I told the
group I was happy to have three
sons and six grandchildren living
right here just minutes
from my house. My sons
are each employed. No
the head. Scared of the
approaching disaster,
major revelations were
revealed and talk focused
mostly on family. One
person had just secured a
new contract.
she convinced her ani-
mal friends to escape to
safety.
Before
The animals bought
into the frenzy and were
so frightened, they joined
Chicken Little in following
Foxy Loxy, who promised
Rober t Sher
Colu mnist
to lead them to help. Instead, Foxy
Loxy ate them.
The sky did not fall; however, the
I cannot emphasize
enough how refreshing it
was to spend a few hours
over dinner in Detroit, a
city hit extra hard by the
recession, talking about our fami-
lies, ideas and what's good about
our city. I didn't hear any disparag-
animals, while accepting the mass
hysteria as fact and listening to
what they were told, planned their
own demise.
ing comments about Detroit or any
complaints about business or the
While the story is just a fable, it is
a timely illustration of the dangers
no sky falling that night.
While I do not see the world
that come with predicting and pro-
moting gloom and doom — some-
thing so many have done during
through rose-colored glasses, I
firmly believe focusing on the good
is always a better choice than
these bad economic times. Keep it
up and doom can become a self-
fulfilling prophecy.
obsessing about the bad. If you get
knocked in the head with an acorn,
put some ice on your head. Save
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With all of the bad threatening
your livelihood, your business, your
friends and your relatives, there is
the acorn and consider planting it
and launching an oak tree nursery.
You can spend your time agonizing
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still plenty of good. You just have
to find it. Be positive. In my coach-
over what's not there anymore — or
you can push ahead, doing what it
takes to get a piece of what is there.
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draining and no one wants to be
around a naysayer.
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economy. It was both encouraging
and constructive. Clearly, there was
Go out and seek new opportuni-
ties. What's the risk? Failure? You
only lose if you don't try something.
If you try and fail, you win because
you are in a better position to pick
yourself up, start again and learn
from the previous experience.
Even if the sky were falling, it
would be out of your control. So
you might as well stop worrying
about it. Every roadblock, every
problem and every challenge is a
potential opportunity.
lenge the other day while sitting in
Do not be like the chicken or you
might get eaten by a fox. ❑
a dinner meeting. One gentleman
suggested we go around the table
Robert Sher, CPA, is a certified execu-
and give everyone a chance to say
something good about Detroit and
about our lives. It sounded pretty
good to me since I am a positive
tive and business coach. He is former
CFO and partner for Schostak Brothers &
Company, Southfield. His e-mail address
is: info@bobsher.com.