I’ve been having a pretty great Summer and Fall. Closing business like crazy at work, making all sorts of great connections with incredible people. Getting very cool opportunities for work and play.
I’ll say it straight. I’ve been feeling pretty great about myself.
So much so, that I had the brilliance of giving someone my opinion about them recently (an opinion that is nowhere grounded in any sort of fact). Somehow, I’d got myself thinking that I can say any old thing I please and everyone is just going to eat it up.
(Think :BIG SHOT by Billy Joel – you can hum it in the background as you read this post).
Well, I got the wake up call today. Not only did this person not appreciate my opinion (the one based in ABSOLUTELY no fact – mind you) but neither did her best friends – who happen to be in my business AND personal world.
Fortunately, these friends have had the generosity to share with me the damage I have done. I was so full of myself, I didn’t even notice.
Now, I get to go about the business of cleaning it up with everybody…looking around and seeing where I’ve left all the loose ends untied – (“Why should I have to take care of THOSE things when I’m clearly so awesome?”)
I have to learn that if I AM going to be more successful than I’ve ever been before, I’d better develop a much larger character than I have displayed lately.
Fingers crossed that I will be able to restore my friendships first. I may never be able to restore the professional relationships after this incident.
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If there is anything I can offer from this horrible mistake I made, it is to share it with you. If I want to go big places, I have to be bigger than I’ve been before. No use “beating myself up” (that’s just MORE of being irresponsible), But there are consequences and I will deal with them – they are MINE – I have earned them after all. And I will clean up what I can and learn and grow and even be grateful that the Universe keeps making sure that I become who I REALLY want to be – not some “shiny” replica with a hollow core.
Love the lessons UP (even when they suck)!
The Irreverent Sales Girl
You got it! Own it and be responsible. That’s all we really have. Apologies don’t rewind-&-erase. Thanks for this reminder.
Thanks, Oz! You’re right! I appreciate that you are in my corner – with the good AND the bad.
We’re here, throwing ourselves in. Taking risks and sometimes have to let go of doing things “the right way.” We don’t always have time to figure out what “the right way is.”
People like Erika Napolitano are inspiring right about now. One of her recent posts … that loud video rant about accepting our humanity. When we stand for something and take actions, it ain’t gonna be smooth and it’s good that it doesn’t go so smooth. It’s all opportunity.
Some things happened in my word this week where a freak-out moment is shaping to be huge growth.
The world doesn’t need more shiny hollow replicas.