Nothing Wrong With a Little Spin

You may have seen this already:  http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/18545

Well, I’d like to start 2010 by telling all of you how proud I am of my “bespectacled, fast-talking spin-meister who’s nothing if not a master at conveying a sense of bottomless enthusiasm.”

Maybe it’s our political landscape or the lack of investigative journalism in the mainstream press that has led to the negative connotation of the word “spin,” but in the world of story telling, or even in our every day life, a good dosage of spin is necessary.  If you can’t put a spin on the story you’re telling, maybe you should leave it to someone else to tell.  

And the same goes for life.  There are so many ups and downs, so many challenges and obstacles that you have to put a spin on things not to get overwhelmed.

That’s what I’ve learned from my very own spin-meister.  Biagio has always been a glass half full kind of person, a dreamer.  And while I am the “yin to his yang” and sometimes more realistic as I like to call it, he’s taught me to see things as I want them to be.    

To succeed in this business, there will be times you have to fake it ’till you make it.  You’ll have to spin yourself into believing you can succeed. Besides, the truth is you won’t know if you can swim until you dive into the deep end.

So my wish for your 2010…is that you spin.  Become your own spin-meister. If you don’t believe in you, fake it, and you may very well make it.