{"id":180,"date":"2010-03-08T14:56:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T14:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brightdimension.co.uk\/?p=180"},"modified":"2010-03-08T14:56:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T14:56:47","slug":"good-day-sunshine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fionabevanfinancialmanagement.co.uk\/brightbusinessthoughts\/2010\/03\/08\/good-day-sunshine\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Day Sunshine!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many of us are thrilled that the sun is finally putting in an appearance. I certainly am! Don&#8217;t we feel better about our businesses when the sun shines?<\/p>\n<p>But what\u00a0tangible effect\u00a0does the weather really have on most of our companies?<\/p>\n<p>Unless you are involved in tourism, swimming pool construction, or possibly seasonal clothing, there is really no reason for sudden optimism when the weather is good &#8211;\u00a0 the economy is unlikely to change overnight just because it isn&#8217;t raining. Nor are customers which weren&#8217;t there yesterday suddenly going to materialise today because they won&#8217;t get wet coming to your office.<\/p>\n<p>And yet we do feel more positive and can often see a change in our business fortunes. Whether this is because, in feeling better about the world, we are more open to opportunities or because good weather encourages us to take a more proactive view, is difficult to say.<\/p>\n<p>Actually it does not matter. In my view anything which encourages us to get out of bed with a spring in our step, ready to face the challenges we will inevitably face in our working week, is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>So maximise the benefits of this positivity: walk to meetings where possible; take a stroll at lunchtime so you can re-energise; and generally get out! We Brits\u00a0know the sunshine won&#8217;t last for ever so make the most of it whilst it&#8217;s here.<\/p>\n<p>Fiona \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many of us are thrilled that the sun is finally putting in an appearance. I certainly am! Don&#8217;t we feel better about our businesses when the sun shines? But what\u00a0tangible effect\u00a0does the weather really have on most of our &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/fionabevanfinancialmanagement.co.uk\/brightbusinessthoughts\/2010\/03\/08\/good-day-sunshine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,7,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fionabevanfinancialmanagement.co.uk\/brightbusinessthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fionabevanfinancialmanagement.co.uk\/brightbusinessthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fionabevanfinancialmanagement.co.uk\/brightbusinessthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fionabevanfinancialmanagement.co.uk\/brightbusinessthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fionabevanfinancialmanagement.co.uk\/brightbusinessthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fionabevanfinancialmanagement.co.uk\/brightbusinessthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fionabevanfinancialmanagement.co.uk\/brightbusinessthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fionabevanfinancialmanagement.co.uk\/brightbusinessthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fionabevanfinancialmanagement.co.uk\/brightbusinessthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}