"Hi Charlotte, how are you?"

And nine times out of ten she answers,

"Hi Daddy, I'm brilliant!"

It is impossible not to smile at such an open exhibition of enthusiasm. Her positivity is infectious.

Yet, like most adults, it took a while to dawn on me that I could learn something from my own child.

I was thinking about her when I met a business colleague other day.

"Hello, Martin," he said as we automatically shook hands, "how are you?"

It was on tip of my tongue to say "I'm fine", or, "not too bad" as I would normally respond. But instead, Charlotte's smiling face popped into my mind and I came back with,

"I'm brilliant, thank you. How are you?"

A flicker of confusion crossed his face as my unexpected response sank in. Then a big smile spread across this rather dour businessman's face and he said,

"You know, I'm feeling pretty brilliant too!"

We had a great meeting.

Once again, in my research I came across a wonderful tape package of Wayne Dyer's latest book. It's called

'There is a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem'

What a wonderful piece of work! Truly inspirational.

Wayne Dyer is known as 'Father of Motivation' by his legion of fans and there's no doubt that this is another excellent example of how he gained his reputation.

A question was asked of me, other day.

'What do you do when there is an 'irritating' relationship present in your life? We just seem to rub each other up wrong way - ALL time, what do I do?'

We sat down and talked about situation and after listening to Dr Dyer's words, decided on a plan of action.

We decided that she would wait for a day when a nasty snipe escaped from this person and apply principles we'd decided on.

Instead of usual cutting remark in reply, she sat quietly for a moment and tried to imagine what kind of a day other person had had. She knew he was tired and upset, so decided to reply with a soothing remark.

She remained calm and asked if he’d had a bad day at office. Silence followed (he'd expected a fight - as usual).

He sat still for a moment tryig to decide if this was a trick, but When he saw look on her face, he knew her concern was genuine. She said then most amazing thing happened.