It's All In Your Head

I was recently in Chapel Hill, North Carolina for an event with my daughter. Chapel Hill is a beautiful college town with great restaurants and lots of things to do.

Annette and I were watching the local morning newscast when the traffic report came on. The newscaster noted in a voice filled with tones of dread that traffic was moving slow today. There were the usual backups and just prepare yourself.

Then she cut to a live shot of the worst back-up. The screen showed cars moving at steady moderate speeds. Annette and I turned to each other and burst out laughing!

You see, we live in a metropolitan area with some of the worst traffic in the country. And this? This was a cakewalk!

But then I started thinking. This is their reality. To residents of Chapel Hill, yes this is rush-hour traffic.

One person’s reality may not be another person’s. But whose reality is the real reality?

It’s safe to say that the true reality is the one that exists in our own head. But who is to say that we can’t change that.

Don’t let your reality be the doom and gloom that the media casts on the remodeling industry. There are people out there who want to buy remodeling. Make your reality the one that finds them!