From the Book: Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff
Part 15. Be the First One to Act Loving or Reach Out
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Who’s The Happiest, Huh?
Life seems to be like a game of numbers...
The more you try, the more you fail.
The more you try, the more you succeed.
The more you try, the more you learn.
The more you try, the more experiences you gain.
The more you try, the better you become.
One of the things that I’m always trying to do is build the ultimate team. This means that I need to talk to people, qualify people, train people, delegate tasks to people, follow up with people, and so many more things.
Throughout the process, there are a many things that I have to learn, and the more I learn the better I become. Which means that the team gets stronger, our services become better, and we get closer to our goals.
There’s also a dark side to team building. The more people that you work with means there are more people that you have a chance of disappointing. Letting people down is one of the risks that goes along with team building, because not everyone is going to see and understand your vision.
Knowing this, I still can’t let other people’s disappointments stop me from pursuing my goals. This doesn’t meant that I don’t care about them, because I do. I just know that I can’t please everyone and there will be times that I must disconnect with them, they must disconnect with me, or we must mutually decide to go our own way.
My first action in trying to prevent a disconnect is by talking it out, sending a letter or email, sending a message through a mutual friend or team member, apologizing, or whatever I can think of to address the issue but it doesn’t always work.
Until reading Part 15’s message about being the first one to act Loving or reach out , I felt that if I did enough to prevent the relationship from disconnecting that I was justified in not hurrying to reach out to that person to reconcile. It made me realize that it’s worth being the first to reach out and reconnect down the road regardless of how we parted ways.
At the end of the day, above all of my physical fitness, financial, real estate, and team goals, my main objective is to be happy and to have peace of mind in all that I do.So if I need to be the first to reach out to someone, I’m ready to make it happen. Hey, maybe it will work well or maybe it won’t, but who cares? As long as I do my part is all that matters to me, ya dig?
Let’s make today a great day and and Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff.
~Matthew
