Did you do your 48 hours of ABC’s? I’ll show you one of mine. How about it, will you tell me one of yours?
Good Readers, take note: This may be difficult to read so avoid it if you’re feeling down; save it for another day, or never, your choice. PattiAnn tells me it’s “just a couple steps above my post Such is the Power – A Lament” which was posted shortly after my husband died.
I meant this post to be about how to transform a pessimistic perspective into an optimistic outlook; and for that purpose, I have shared some deeply personal (and usually private) feelings about my grief. I didn’t write it to make you sad, although it deals with sadness. Nor am I looking for sympathy. PLEASE no sympathy. Just good fellowship.
I wrote it to show me and anyone else who must walk this path that hope can prevail. Life goes on and I want to choose a life of hope rather than despair.
So, read on if you dare. Or skip it if you must. Thanks for visiting no matter what you decide.
Who can you encourage today?
Today, while I was out walking the dog, I ran into an occasional dog acquaintance. When I first met her, she was working out of her home and had a relatively flexible schedule. I would see her a couple of mornings a week. Then she disappeared. Actually, she had transitioned into a “corporate job” and was walking her dogs at 5:30 in the morning, so from my point of view, she had disappeared.
About a month ago, she took a vacation day, and I saw her and the dogs again. We talked for a while and I told her about BouncebackCafe.com (BBC). I saw her again today and what was truly phenomenal was that she had read BBC and LOVED it. It was encouragement, when I truly needed it.
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How about it, will you do your ABC’s for 48 hours?
PattiAnn and I used to be (well I guess we still are) experts on sales and service performance improvement. That was our niche. What caused us to shift our focus to resilience?
Going From Hero to Zero
Well, if you are lucky enough to know and love sales or service people, you’re familiar with the daunting tasks they face: they search for and secure elusive new business, soothe the inevitable irate customers, satisfy the demands of anxious managers, overcome all the quirks and foibles of their company’s operational systems and, despite all their dedication and perseverance, they go from hero to zero on the first day of every month! That’s pretty darn discouraging. So, to serve our customers better, PattiAnn and I hunted for and found better bounceback solutions to help them with their daily heapings of adversities.
How will you adapt to the “new normal”?
When Ellie wrote about putting on someone else’s glasses in The Road Ahead, I really identified with it. My mother had awful eyesight and I inherited her severe myopia and astigmatism. One of the favorite things, for those of us who were visually challenged, to do was to put on each others’ glasses to see who was the blindest of us all. Adults would warn us that we would ruin our eyes but most of us felt that they couldn’t get much worse anyway, so we exchanged glasses off and on for years.
Continue reading » Traveling the Uncertain Road Ahead (with Hope) While Not Hitting the Pedestrians
Have some fun, add your own OTTBO’s – send me a comment or two!
Years ago, while playing tourists in downtown Toronto my husband and I jaywalked mid-block. As we stepped off the curb, to our surprise and embarrassment, ALL traffic, on both sides of the road STOPPED! It took us a couple times to get it – in Canada, you don’t hit the pedestrians! It’s the law and people take it very seriously. And so it became our secret code, whenever the other of us was oblivious to the blindingly obvious, (OTTBO for short) we’d smirk and say, “Don’t hit the pedestrians.”
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