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A few weeks ago I gave an online presentation to the associates and partners of the company Helms Briscoe.
One of our members, Carole, is pretty high up with them and had asked if I could run one of the weekly online events they are putting on to support people through these challenging times.
It went really well.
If you have any staff / employees who could do with a bit of support with their physical and mental healthy at the moment, hit me up?
At the end, Carol put up a poll the attendees could use to vote on how useful they found it.
With a choice of;
Very useful
Useful
Unsure
Not useful
Probably about half each ish went for the first two.
But one went for ‘Unsure’.
Just one person.
Out of a couple of hundred.
And they didn’t put ‘Not useful’
But, you guessed it………….
I immediately focused on that one.
Human nature isn’t it?
99% of things are somewhere between fine and really good.
And we focus on the 1% that is less than that.
The comment someone made at work.
The person that cut you up in traffic.
The slightly negative feedback you received.
The one thing that didn’t go according to plan.
And those things play round in our head.
We forget the overwhelming majority that went according to plan.
Just write it off as ‘expected’.
And allow our mood and focus to be negatively impacted by the one or two less good things.
To then make other stuff, perhaps, go less well.
Human nature.
We get it.
But, as always, it is a choice.
A decision.
It’s not a forgone conclusion.
We don’t need to allow it to happen.
We can make an effort to put these things in context.
To let them go.
At least partially.
Or, at least, to choose not the let them affect the rest of our day.
To recognise them as that 1 to 5% of the day that was slightly less good.
And work to make the remaining 90%+ as good as possible 🙂
Much love,
Jon ‘Deodorant’ Hall
