Hello Marvelous People!
As many of our longtime subscribers know, I’m not an encourager of you wasting too much valuable time obsessing about what is being said in the “news”. Because if you haven’t figured it out yet, the “news” is about shock value & ratings. Your chance to receive real value comes much later, assuming it ever arrives at all.
Sadly, but not shockingly the “news” recently released a story that a Senior Executive at a prominent insurance Company was summarily dismissed from his job duties.
Details: the skinny of it was that he was having a “couple of drinks” after a business session when his Tongue began to Waggle about his discontented feelings about his boss. There are different versions of the story but several people within earshot picked up one of his ill planned snippets. Something to the effect that his boss was a “F------ Ass!”
The real point I wish to emphasize is not that this man was fired, but that this man failed to remember the Jerry Stovall rule:
“Remember who you are! Remember who you represent!”
See folks, when we lack the ability to resist the “waggling tongue syndrome” about a frustration that you have with your boss, your co-worker, your vendor, your friends, your neighbors or your relatives, two things inevitably happen.
1. It forever serves to destroy, but it constructs NOTHING. (Lose/Lose Proposition)
2. There is no gain & all you can lose is character. (Lose/Lose Proposition)
3. My daughter has heard these words so many times: “Taylor, it takes much more character to say NOTHING when you are frustrated and you want to “just tell somebody off”. That’s not how you win. You are so much more than that.
Here’s my suggested call to action for you.
· Stand guard at the Gateway of your Mouth.
· If you can’t drink, don’t drink.
· Don’t forget what your parents or grandparents hopefully told you.
· If you don’t have something good to say, don’t say it at all.
People are more sensitive & amped up with their egos today more than ever before in my life. I was brought up in a household that enjoyed a whole bunch of bantering and light hearted sarcasm. But these days the “light hearted” sarcasm is now “heart felt” sarcasm & it’s just not a road on which you wish to travel.
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