OK let’s be blunt here – some days, running your business is quite simply, shit.

Oh, for the perks of a real job, where people say ‘thank you’ and ‘great job’ and you get paid just as much whether you’re at work or on holiday and they have a canteen so you don’t have to make your own lunch and people just hand you work so you don’t have to go find your own and you get a nice steady cheque every month and you get to hang out with actual real in-the-flesh people rather than just over skype or facebook.

Phew!

Sometimes you just have to get this off your chest!

I remember thinking when I first started out in my business that once I ‘had got this business thing cracked’, I wouldn’t have days like that any more.

Well I’m sorry to break it to you but you do.

It’s true, you get a better class of problem to deal with: How do I manage my team better? Should I fly economy or business? Why won’t paypal give me back the thousands I made on my launch 15 months ago? How can I arrange my schedule so my evenings aren’t taken up with all those Joint Venture partners who really want to help me promote JigsawBox? LOL! When I look it like that, it ain’t so bad!

There are LOTS of things you can do when you’re having a shit day.

One of the fastest ways I know to get myself out of that negative spiral of thinking and into a state where I’m capable of making inspired decisions again (hint: NEVER EVER EVER make a decision about anything when you’re in the negative sprial), is to have a belly laugh.

This video did exactly that for me last week – really, is this what our lives have become?