Heard this from a friend the other day in regards to not getting something you wanted. You have two choices for you respond. Tell me why I didn’t get what I wanted? Tell me what I have to do to get what I want? One puts the blame on others, the other puts the growth and accountability on you. Which do you want to be?
You will make mistakes. Things will go wrong. You will get switched to another team. It might not be perfect. You will wish it could be better. And you will learn to move on. The question is how you are going to hold onto everything you did wrong and move forward. The longer you hold on, the longer it will take to move on and get better.
Another in my favourite emails that I receive… Dear FirstName, Wouldn’t that be horrible, but for real, there is a person writing this email… Then why not use my name? If I went up to some random stranger and said – “What’s up FirstName?” – what do you think they would say? What do you think the response would be? Even if I was joking (and let’s be honest, “hey buddy”, sounds infinitely better). The…
Another set of SPAMMY emails I receive. “Can I have a moment?” Well if we’ve never met, and you emailed me out of the middle of nowhere (honestly I have no idea where you live, for all I know you could be on a space shuttle), chances are no we can’t have a moment? Because a moment, that word, means something treasured, something of value, some level of trust that has built up over time…
I get emails from seminars I need to be attending. I’m not sure what drives this need. Many times I feel like responding, but then I worry that it’s going to trigger an upgrade in the mailing lists from “maybe a SPAM” to “attached to a human” and then I’m going to get flooded with even more solicitations for seminars I don’t want to attend. Hello, You have the wrong person, I’m doing great, and…