Real Talk!

This morning, I received a subscription email of a recent Harris Poll, which gives me a bit of a handle on what people are thinking. Harris interactive conducts online studies with people who have agreed to participate on their panels and no estimates of theoretical sampling error can be calculated.

Harris does weight their numbers for age, gender, education, region and Internet usage, to bring the numbers into line with actual proportions in the population. Their statements do conform to the guidelines of the National Council on Public Polls and of the British Polling Council.

People from 5 major countries (Italy, Spain, France, Great Britain and the United States) were asked if they were concerned or experiencing any impact from the recent financial crunch. It was interesting that the answer, although varying in degree of impact, was that essentially 30% of people- everywhere- are feeling some sort of affect.

Hmmm.

Okay… so my brain gets this information and I figure if I asked a bunch of people if they liked grapes, I suspect some would say yes, some would say no and some would say they were ambivalent. With three possible answers, it’s quite likely to have a 30% negative response.

I’m not saying we should let go any Utopian dreams of making everybody happy, but maybe some people simply don’t want to be happy.
Maybe some people are happy being unhappy.

Did Harris ask these people if they liked being more vigilant about finances?

The bottom line in everything is that things come at you- big end first. I mean, without some serious plan in mind, any quandary can seem insurmountable. Especially if it comes at you on a bad day!

One thing I do know is that nothing is new. It may look a little different but if you break it down to the crux, it’s the same thing. Everything has a cycle. What goes up, must come down… but then, if it went up once, it will do it again.

Success has a lot to do with timing… add a little patience… with another dash of perseverance… sing a happy little tune and presto change-o… nothing is really all that bad.

Well, maybe 30%… for 30% of the time.