TURN YOUR TELEVISION OFF!!!

This ‘Recession’ coverage is driving me insane. I keep watching the news feeling I have a responsibility to keep abreast of the economic climate, particularly in my industry. Yet each and every time I do, I'm left feeling I might as well give up trying and agree with Dad's Army in saying "We're all doomed".

Having to find ‘casualties of the recession’ to parade in front of us on TV, they managed to find a guy who couldn’t find work and was complaining he hadn't eaten for 8 days. To be fair, he hardly looked like the ideal candidate for work in a good climate, let alone a bad one. The camera then to cut to a 'mood' shot where you see him smoking. Obviously he couldn’t afford food, just fags.

It seems to me that there is no positive angle being sought and so we're allowing ourselves to be dragged down on an almost National scale. Don't get me wrong, I realise times are tough and you can’t view the world through rose tinted specs all the time, but for goodness sake! Let's look at how businesses and families can help themselves and stop showing a constant stream of people already suffering to make us feel worse.

Our media are almost encouraging apathy in my view. If you tell people enough times they are going to struggle, it's only so long before they are going to believe it and become inclined to give up trying. Surely we should demand better than that? Unfortunately news is now a 24/7 machine that constantly needs feeding and we have no influence over it. We just have to hope that some of the powers that be can see that they have the power to inspire us, cajole us and motivate us and using that would be far more beneficial than the current tact of simply depressing us.

Everyone knows Estate Agency is incredibly tough going at the moment but I don't come into work, gather my troops together and tell them things are impossible and going to get worse. Of course I don't! I look for ways we can battle the challenges we face, different ways to find extra income and ways we can persuade those people who are genuinely trying to move, to use Imagine Estate Agents.