You are a busy person. You are talented in so many areas, and your assistance and attention is required in several different areas. This tends to lead you into an area that is overwhelming.
You can handle the tasks one by one, but when they pile up, you start to lose your calm. You need to keep your calm. Your calm is very important. Your calm is the lubrication for your engine. Without calm, your engine overheats and things break.
You need to refocus when things stack up. When you take things one at a time, you will work through the queue faster and more efficiently.
You are polite. Polite is nice. Polite is pleasant. Polite is a hazard to success.
You often yield in conversations. You tend to tolerate people when they are lending excuses and questions instead of solutions. When you are the leader, you must control the conversation at meetings. If you are interrupted, stop the conversation and bring focus back onto the topic on the agenda.
If you allow others to dictate the conversation in a meeting, you are wasting the time of everyone in attendance.
You can probably find a way to be blunt without losing your manners.
Good Luck.
You have been driving for a while. You have gotten to the point of taking the car for granted. It is an amazing piece of engineering, that is so common, you forget sometimes that it takes a lot to go forward.
You have fine tuned your engine to run at maximum output with the best possible efficiency.
Everything about your vehicle is in tip top condition, except you forgot the tires.
So there you sit, in a mud puddle, or grass, or slick asphalt, spinning your wheels. You have a machine that can race against any car out there, but you are stuck at the starting line.
When you slam your foot down on the pedal, you get no where. You need to take a deep breath. You need to take it slow. Give your incredible machine some time to build momentum.
Eventually, you will get up to speed and being a force to reckon with.
You are a brilliant person. You have ideas that come to you all the time. The trouble is, you have a hard time convincing people that the idea is a reasonable, and valid path to take.
When that happens, you get flustered and frustrated and walk away in disgust.
You played baseball or softball right. Remember the first lesson about fielding grounders? Stay with the ball.
Wait, the first rule was, “Keep your eye on the ball”. Then, “Stay with the ball”.
Either way, stay with the idea. Let it be rejected, for now. Find out why it didn’t get put through. Tune it up and tweak the details.
Then push it back through. It is a great idea, it just needs some grease on the wheels. If you do not stick with the idea, you will see it rolling out under someone else’s banner a few miles down the road.
At that point, all you have is shrugging shoulders and a pathetic, “That was my idea” on your lips.
You are a great person. You trust other people because you think everyone works the same way that you do.
You might not want to believe this, but not everyone sees the world the same way you do.
No one out there is going to care more about your project, your product, your dream, than you. People may join you in trying to achieve your goal, but the promises they make might not be what they deliver.
What you see and what they see is different. Even if the difference is as small as a grain of salt.
When people make promises to you, take the time to calculate in the difference between what your view is and the view of the person making the offer. Understand that, they might not be deceptive on purpose, but they are not going to deliver what they tell you they will.
Granted, there are a vast number of liars, cheats, and criminals out there, however, the general populace is not dishonest. They just have a much different outlook than you.
Imagine that you are The Big Boss. You stand in front of a huge auditorium of your employees. You froth and slam your fist and churn up that loyal fervor in your company and you ask them all to put in 110%. They all jump and applaud because they believe in you as a leader; after all, you are a great leader. They vow with every ounce that they are, that they will give 110%.
They are all a twitter with excitement as they rush back to their work stations. Loyalty and pride oozes out of every pore. And in their heads they are churning out 113%. They threw in a little extra just in case they miscalculated. They are pouring everything they have, then going back to the well and sucking out any remaining drop.
And as you sit in your humble office, you look over the numbers for the past quarter. You think, “Hmm, I asked for 110% and they only gave me 82%. I wonder what I did wrong.”
The answer is, nothing. The only mistake you made is that you forgot to factor in the grain of salt.
