AS BAD AS THAT?
Feeling sorry for yourself?
A first step out of that mood is to realize that your are not
alone.
It’s a matter of degree, perhaps, and the interesting thing is
that you are the one person who is most in control of the emotional
mechanism which causes it to register.
Take control.
Visualize yourself as managing the firm called “Yourself”...”You,
Inc.” if that sounds shorter and more workable to you.
What is the first task your must undertake as big wheel of “You,
Inc.?” Hire a staff, perhaps?
`You already have most of them if you stop to think about it.
Doctors, for instance, who are helping to do something about
staving off the worst of the physical maladies which helped put you
where your are;
they, in turn, are assisted by Pharmacists, nurses and other health
care people as required...sort of part-time help, in a way. Your
Minister provides spiritual guidance and a relationship with the God
of our lives.
Then ,there’s family which may be, at times, a problem, but which still
offers more love and supports than we might realize. As “employees”
of “You, Inc.” they tire of being workers and form unwise unions times,
and, from time-to-time, they can and will forment strikes and
demonstrations against “You, Inc” in spite of all the firm has done for
them.
This will be your most difficult task, no doubt.
To maintain good relationships with those marching up and
down and carrying imaginary banners and even screaming insults at
times, is not an easy thing to do. It will demand the utmost in
management skill; the utmost degree of understanding and a level
of forgiving you may never have even tried before or knew existed.
Such trouble with the work force is, so often, excaberated by outside
sources and wrongful forces but they are often shallow and weak
and fall in the face of steady, sincere and compassionate opposition.
As C.E.O. stand your ground!. The Board of Directors will be backing
you up on every straight foreward, sincere and honest tactic you
many undertake. Remember, too: No action is often better than
impulsive, short-sighted and vengeful recrimination. There comes a
time, as Grandma used to say: “ when it is best to let them stew in
their own juices.”
In such tense times, sit tight; tend to your own specific business;
keep the firm’s logo shiney clear and clean and, in time, wrongs will
be revealed for what they are and workable relationships can be
established once again.
It can be as good as that which makes you smile inside when
you remember good times.
A.L.M. May 30, 2002 [c448wds]
