SENSITIZE 91
Your mode can put you into a mood that molds your whole day.
What to do?
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SENSITIZE 90
Mood? Or mode?
How to not be a moody person.
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Three Ways to Gain Respect Without Bragging … August 7, 2014
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“R-e-s-p-e-c-t
Find out what it means to me…”
Aretha Franklin vibrantly and tunefully punctuated the Otis Redding lyric.
Almost every human being desires to gain respect, and therefore, placement in the pecking order of the human family.
Yet for some reason or another, we’ve begun to believe that this can be achieved by boasting, bragging or screeching our requests to the world around us, bolstering our demand with the threat of bad attitude or vengeance.
It’s just not the way things work.
Although we tolerate people making claims without backing them up, we eventually require that they prove their point or we will find a way to set them aside.
So I’d like to tell you three ways to gain respect without bragging:
1. Show up on time.
Let us make it clear once and for all: there is no such thing as “fashionably late.” People who arrive late communicate that they think they’re more important than everybody else in the room. It is only excusable if humility is at the heart of an apology, and then only if it’s done once or twice.
If you want to establish a reputation for being powerful, show up on time and make sure everyone knows it is part of your conviction.
2. Show up with your mood.
Honestly, it doesn’t have to be a good mood. But people who fluctuate, constantly bouncing among emotional profiles, are considered to be unstable, gossip-worthy and basically negated by their friends and family.
Being positive is good–if you’re always positive. Being neutral is fine as long as you bring that at all times. Even being in a sour disposition has its charm as long as you don’t occasionally build up hopes that you’ve made some sort of transformation to positive thinking.
Consistent moods are powerful. We may act like we will put up with people gyrating from one mood to another, but secretly we don’t.
3. Show up with the work done.
Here’s the problem with procrastinating and failing to achieve your quota: you have to explain why, which lends itself to excuses, too much story-telling and an over-abundance of drama.
The greatest gift you can give to yourself and everyone else is to make sure that today’s calendar is free from yesterday’s “things to do” list. If it isn’t, just say so, without explanation.
So these are three things that will gain you respect without you having to plant your foot, put your hand on your hip and posture for it.
After a while, if people know you’re going to show up on time, that you have a consistent mood and you get the work done … you become the champion you desire to be.
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Mountain to Mahomet … June 19, 2013
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I am the mountain.
I am the obstacle in my own way.
I am the big, fat pile of dirt, poking up, protruding on my own path, forbidding passage.
I am the mole-hill which has become so overblown that my tiny mustard seed of faith needs to move it every single day.
We do a disservice to everything true and holy when we believe that our problems lie outside ourselves. Government is not my problem. Religion is not my dilemma. Family is not my stumbling block. My problem is me and I am my own mountain.
So as I head off to Mahomet, Illinois, tonight, bringing my mountain, I am going to take three things into consideration. I refer to them as the basic ABC’s of human decency:
1. Act right. In other words, DON’T “be yourself.” When we bring our moods, we muddy the situation instead of finding a mode to mold our possibilities toward success. We all know how to act right–we just get bratty and refuse to participate. If you’ve forgotten how to act right, let me give you some quick suggestions:
A. Be nice. It won’t kill you.
B. Listen more than you talk.
C. Be prepared to be wrong
D. Go slow–speed kills.
There you go. And if you don’t feel it–then pretend you do. No one cares if you’re faking it, as long as you’re making it easier. Believe me–everyone prefers your better nature.
2. Be honest. Honesty is not only the best policy, but really, the only “insurance” of being taken seriously. Once you’re caught in a lie, people assume you’re a liar. It could take years to change that perception. I will be in Mahomet, Illinois, for about four hours. As you can see, I don’t have years. Tell the truth and then you don’t have to struggle to remember your fabrication. It is not a gift to the human race, it is a demand.
3. Caresome. It should be a word–caresome. Since we have “careful,” which is annoying, and “careless,” which is lazy, there SHOULD be a term to represent the value of human interaction. Caresome. You don’t have to be phony, pretending that everything is special, but you don’t want to doze through people’s conversations, waiting for the opportunity to share YOUR story. Care some. Stay involved. Listen for a question before you give an answer–and when you have finally exhausted your interest level, do people a favor. Excuse yourself and walk away.
I guarantee you fine pilgrims that if you pursue this A, B, C philosophy you will find yourself more relaxed, more valuable and more productive than if you try to “be yourself,” ultimately finding out that “yourself” does not apply.
Act right.
Be honest.
Caresome.
It is the mustard seed of faith which moves the massive mountain of our huge ego.
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