We’ve all had those days. Usually in November. You’re walking through town, collar up against the wind and drizzle. You’re in early Christmas shopping ‘browse mode’. It’s only 3.30 but it’s nearly dark. The traffic is stop start. Starbucks is empty – nobody drinks coffee in the afternoon. The pound shop seems busy. You consider nipping into M&S for a browse but decide against it. Argos looms and you hurry by. You recall your previous visit...never again!  As the November sky grows dark a terrible truth becomes clear. Here, nothing is happening or going to happen. Life, in its radiance and glory, is off somewhere else...

For some people it’s a drizzly November afternoon all year round. I call them ‘mood hoovers’ because their negative outlook somehow manages to suck all the life out of those around them. If the weather lady were describing their future it would be ‘bleak, miserable, grey and overcast. With this pattern set to continue.’

As 2%ers we need to understand that we are allowed to have days like this. But that we’re not allowed to have them often. Shake them off, learn from them but don’t let them become a habit. Make your outlook, ‘sunny, bright, blue sky for the long run.’

Oh, and never ever go into Argos!

Crowded House got it spot on with their poptastic hit ‘take the weather with you’. Lyrics below. Learn them and then click play and sing along to the vid. Even if you’re at work. JFDI

Walking 'round the room singing
Stormy Weather
At 57 Mount Pleasant Street

Now it's the same room but everything's different
You can fight the sleep but not the dream 

Things ain't cooking in my kitchen
Strange affliction wash over me

Julius Caesar and the Roman Empire
Couldn't conquer the blue sky

There's a small boat made of china
Going nowhere on the mantlepiece
Do I lie like a loungeroom lizard
Or do I sing like a bird released

Everywhere you go you always take the weather with you
Everywhere you go you always take the weather

Everywhere you go you always take the weather with you
Everywhere you go you always take the weather

Everywhere you go you always take the weather with you
Everywhere you go you always take the weather

Now sing along...