Business in Glasgow

Engage is going to take a break over the summer period and will probably come back in a different format than before. However, in order to keep continuity, the table talk chats on my blog site here will continue.

Something has to be said I think, on the aftermath of the General Election, with the dust now settling and what with the proverbial volcanic ash dust causing havoc in the skies and now the financial realities beginning to bite, there is a degree of uncertainty abroad on different fronts.

It is hard to maintain a buoyant attitude towards life, at every turn something else comes along to either knock your confidence or undermine any kind of joy or pleasantness you have experienced or are experiencing.

I can’t help but think that in countries where they have even more to complain about and less to encourage them, you often find a much more cheerful disposition towards life and the prospects and possibilities that it contains. A salutory lesson perhaps to those of us who are of a more morbid and mournful disposition.

So the challenge for me today on this beautiful, bright, late spring sunny morning is to be cheerful, sometimes it is all to do with an act of will, just as it it true that sometimes to love someone you have to be deliberative about it.

My encouragement to you today is to take some heart in the warmth of the sunshine and be grateful even for the simple things like that which make the day just that little bit brighter.