I Love Pointless Meetings!

Apparently our thoughts can change our feelings, so we should make an effort to spin our thinking so that we view all things in a positive light.

I love pointless meetings!  The more circles a meeting goes in the better!  Here's my recipe for an awesome, awesome meeting.  This is a meeting for making decisions:

1. Look at an option.
2. Determine that we love it.
3. Hug it and kiss it and tell everyone how special it is.
4. Suddenly find something wrong with it.
5. Cast it aside like week-old fish.
6. Look at another option.
7. Determine that we love it.
8. Hug it and kiss it and tell everyone how special it is.
9. Suddenly find something wrong with it.
10. Spurn it.
11. Realize that the thing that was wrong with option 2 is not wrong with option 1.
12. Pick up option 1 again.
13. Determine that we love it.
14. Hug it and kiss it and tell everyone how special it is.
15. Wait!  Something is still wrong with it.  On to option 3!
16. Option 3 is very special.  We love it.
17. Hug it and kiss it and tell everyone how special it is.
18. Holy crap!  Something is wrong with option 3!
19. Option 3 must die.  It's evil and wicked.  What were we thinking!  Back to option 2.
20. What was wrong with option 2 again?  Discuss at length.
21. Discover deep and important and wonderful things about option 2.  Take it to dinner at your favorite restaurant.  Promise to love it forever and ever.
22. Oh, shit.  Whatever was wrong with option 2 still sucks about it.  Who would have guessed!  Down with option 2!  Fie on it!  Spit in its eye!
23. Hello option 1, you sexy sexy thing.  We love you. 
24. End the meeting with a statement like, "So all the options are still on the table, right?  Yes?  Excellent!" 

Whatever you do, don't offer to test an option so as to eliminate it on the basis of empirical data.  Where's the fun in that!  And for God's sake don't point out that for the prorated burdened headcount of the time all the individuals in the meeting have spent, we could have paid someone to solve the problem in a fairly spectacular and sexy way.  Where's your sense of adventure?

It now occurs to me that the word "pointless" in the title of this post is pejorative.  I'll need to work on this whole positive spin thing.  Excuse me while I evaluate several ways of solving this problem...