Keep Digging for Your Pony

President Ronald Reagan’s favorite joke was about two young twin brothers. Worried that the boys had developed extreme personalities – one was a total pessimist, the other a total optimist – their parents took them to a psychiatrist.

“First the psychiatrist treated the pessimist. Trying to brighten his outlook, the psychiatrist took him to a room piled to the ceiling with brand-new toys. But instead of yelping with delight, the little boy burst into tears. ‘What’s the matter?’ the psychiatrist asked, baffled. ‘Don’t you want to play with any of the toys?’ ‘Yes,’ the little boy bawled, ‘but if I did I’d only break them.’”

“Next the psychiatrist treated the optimist. Trying to dampen his out look, the psychiatrist took him to a room piled to the ceiling with horse manure. But instead of wrinkling his nose in disgust, the optimist emitted just the yelp of delight the psychiatrist had been hoping to hear from his brother, the pessimist. Then he clambered to the top of the pile, dropped to his knees, and began gleefully digging out scoop after scoop with his bare hands. ‘What do you think you’re doing?’ the psychiatrist asked, just as baffled by the optimist as he had been by the pessimist. ‘With all this manure,’ the little boy replied, beaming, ‘there must be a pony in here somewhere!’”

What reminded me about this joke is that I’m currently having a LOT of horse poop thrown at me!  In the midst of many things, despite GREAT reviews so far, I got my first flat turn-down on one of my books yesterday (I know – failure is part of any great accomplishment), my swimming pool pump piping literally blew up last night, a stock I hold SIGNIFICANT HOLDINGS in tanked this morning, along with several other things I won’t bother you with.

I texted my wife just now:  “something AMAZING is about to happen!  I know there’s a pony in here somewhere!  (I’ll explain the story when you get home tonight).”

I’m sharing this with you because I know YOU’RE going through challenges right now.

You’re not alone.

I know sometimes it feels like you are, but you’re not.

Everyone truly is going through challenges.

The question is:  Do we focus on the poop, or do we keep digging for the pony?

You decide for yourself – I’m going to get back to digging!

Keep up the Good Fight,

Terry

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