How Do You Use Your Thoughts?

“Susan Zealot is the best person for this job,” Charles Cameron suggested to the board of six males in the conference room at the Sunrise Advertising Agency.

“Either you like her, or you have slept with her,” Paul Mooney teased.

The other members stared at him in annoyance and Peter Gleason asked, “Why should we choose her?”

“I like the way she thinks,” Charles defends her.

“She is new and lacks the experience,” Paul protests.

“How will she learn if she isn’t given a chance?”

“This position calls for someone with experience,” Paul continues to argue.

“When Dayton Industries terminated their ten-year contract with us, she talked Sam Dayton into coming back,” Charles reminded them.

“True,” the others agree.

“How did she do it?” Peter questioned.

“Who cares,” someone said. “He was one of our biggest clients and he is back.”

“We need someone with experience,” Paul pressed on.

“She also prevented Joyce Hamilton from leaving too because of the incident with Claudette Jones,” Charles reminds them.

“Was she also responsible for the other two clients staying that someone under your management,” Peter Gleason asked, his eyes on Paul. “Shove out and threatened to sue us?”

He bit into his lower lip in anger.

“How does she get all of them to stay?” Peter asked his eyes moving to Charles.

“It’s the way she thinks. How she thinks, makes you want to help yourself and her. She is amazing!” he exclaimed.

“She is that good?” Peter asked.

“Much better than that one over there,” someone points to Paul.

Peter asked, “Can we meet her?”

Charles picked up the phone in front of him and said, “Debbie, send Susan in please.”

Susan Zealot entered a few minutes later, dressed in a pink and grey wrapped dress, three-inch grey pumps, and her black hair in a bun.

After exchanging pleasantries, Peter Gleason complimented, “Thank you for saving our company from filing for bankruptcy. But how did you get our clients who left to return without promising them incentives?”

Susan smiled, then explained, “Our thoughts are powerful tools that can help us, or, a dangerous weapon that will hinder us.”

“Damn!” everyone except Paul sang like a chorus.

“How did you get Joyce Hamilton and Dayton Industries to come back without a cost to us,” Peter wondered again.

“I asked what the problem was. It was a personal issue with several of our employees. So, I asked them if our services affect their client’s products. They all said no. I explained that the success of their client’s products sits on our innovative advertising style and methods. If they walked away from us, their clients might walk away from them. Smart business owners know that if a system works, milk it like the Borden cow,” she explained to agape mouths and dropped jaws.

“Uh-uh!” Paul said in shock.

She went on, “I notified them that their clients are their assets and their success sits in their laps. Their personal issues shouldn’t be a part of their business decisions. Plus, if their clients are satisfied, it’s happiness for all of us. I suggest they find a better way to fix the problem. Their client’s success sat on our services. They are the ones complaining. Not their clients. It’s common sense!”

Seven pairs of eyes popped out of their sockets.

“That’s it?” Peter questioned in awe.

“Our thoughts influence our lives negatively or positively. We have a choice which one to choose. We can use it to help or hinder ourselves. I need this job so it’s used as a tool to help me,” she explained smiling.

“You are promoted to manager of Paul’s department,” Peter stated.

“She is going to be my boss!” Shot from Paul’s mouth.

“No thanks,” Susan declined. “Damage control is my specialty.”

“Then we will create a department for you and you will be in control of that,” Peter vowed.

“I like that,” she said. “Thank you. Can I go now? I am helping Helen with Cleve Sherman’s advertising campaign.”

They nodded and Susan walked out.

“Why didn’t we think of that?” someone said.

“We have to be aware and in charge of our thoughts like her,” Charles informs them.

“And we don’t?” Someone admits.

“With years of experience and our PhDs, she used common sense to floor us,” Peter confessed.

“She is right you know,” Charles agreed. “Our thoughts can be used as a weapon that hinders us or a tool that helps us.”

“I love how she thinks!” Peter said with a smile.

If your heart could speak, what would it say?

Our thoughts stimulate our actions allowing our thinking to be a tool that can help us. Or a weapon that will hinder us. Annelise Lords

How do you use your thoughts?

Thanks you for reading this piece. I hope you enjoyed it.