What Is Wrong with You?

What Is Wrong with You?
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Best Advice I Ever Heard
By MJ Plaster

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
~Willie Nelson

Four years after the dot-com bust, I shuttered my technology writing and consulting business. Fortunately, I soon found a new client — just one — but it was a start. At the time, I wondered if it was too good to be true. By the second month, something didn't seem right, and I developed a bad feeling about the client and the work.

When the third month's check didn't arrive on time, I sent the client an e-mail to find out what was going on. I sent another e-mail, and another, and another. The check never arrived, and I never heard from the client again. (Keep reading)