Acceptance
Posted 12-29-2010 at 10:41 AM by LookinForMayberry
There is a list of human responses written on our company meeting room white board: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance. The person that first introduced the list described it as the sequence of reactions to a new concept.
Today, as I was attending a meeting on another new concept, my eyes drifted to the white board. It occurred to me that all of the first four were nothing more than a different flavor of Resistance.
Scientists view the success of organisms by their ability to adapt to new circumstances in their environment. One might translate that to ones personal life in how we accept new situations. Adapting = Accepting. Therefore, resistance is failure.
Starting today, I hope to find myself just saying yes to changes in my life.
Yes, Lord. Amen.
Today, as I was attending a meeting on another new concept, my eyes drifted to the white board. It occurred to me that all of the first four were nothing more than a different flavor of Resistance.
Scientists view the success of organisms by their ability to adapt to new circumstances in their environment. One might translate that to ones personal life in how we accept new situations. Adapting = Accepting. Therefore, resistance is failure.
Starting today, I hope to find myself just saying yes to changes in my life.
Yes, Lord. Amen.
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As the Borg says "Resistance is Futile"...
I find that people who are most happy are the ones who cooperate with what ever rules are laid down by the Company. They are the ones that get promoted, and see the most benefiet, because they are team players...
The malcontents are usually the laziest, whinniest people you will ever meet and will greet anything with skepticism and discontent. They will stonewall at every facet, and foot drag til they are forced to come along with the group.
Once, when I was just starting out, my new Boss asked me to do something, and I asked him if it ws in my 'job description"? He said, Jesse, if you dont do it, then I will have to find someone else who will do it!!
I took that to heart, and a well learned lesson, and when something needed done, I never hesitated again! They knew they could depend on me, and when it came time for me to leave that job, (I was going into the Marines at that time), they told me that they would be sorry to see me go, and if I ever wanted my job back again, to come see them when my time was up! Yea, that left me with a warm and fuzzy feeling, but, I neve went back, since that would always be a minimum wage job, and nothing I could start a family on, so, I kept that train of thought with me through out life and am now retired.
A "Can Do" attitude will always make you more dependable, and knowing all you can know about any position, (including learning enough about the fella or gal's job up ahead of you), so that you will be ready to move up, when the time comes!
I wish you well...
JessePosted 12-30-2010 at 01:27 PM by woodworkingmenace
