What Love and Respect Means In a Professional Setting

I respect and love you so much that I have to tell you the truth.There’s nothing else I can do other than give you my raw honesty.If I didn’t like you as much, it would be easier to sugar coat it and walk away.

You’re not yourself.

I don’t know what happened.The behaviors I’m seeing aren’t what I normally see from you.This isn’t you.I want the old you back.

2 Minute Action

Quick, honest conversations that start with love are more powerful than yelling or “scaring people straight.”It’s up to each of us to look out for each other.Pick Simone in your life who isn’t acting like they used to.Take a second to ask how they’re doing and what’s up.Sugar coating breeds distrust.Being too nice breeds resentment.Being honest and assertive brings people together.

The Most Overlooked and Practical Application For Trust

Missed meetings that stay on the calendar.A pile of to-dos.In fact, a big long list of to-dos with dates that are WAY overdue.Seems innocent, though, right?What harm could it do?You're just adjusting. You're still striving. You're just on your way there, right?

Here's the problem:

When you stray from the structure you've laid out--whether it's a calendar event, to-do, or whatever--you're building distrust.You're teaching yourself that you can't trust the calendar to tell you what's important because sometimes there are events you can miss.You're teaching yourself that you can't trust your to-do list because it's packed with tasks that don't matter and clog up your view of priorities.You're teaching yourself that you can't trust yourself to get things done or honor the schedule.If your calendar is sacred, you will trust it.You'll have a good relationship with your calendar and you'll enjoy using it as a tool--because it will actually be useful.You'll have a good relationship with your to-do list and you'll enjoy using it because it will also be useful.

2 Minute Action:

Scan your calendar for the week. Delete anything you KNOW won't happen. Reschedule, kick back, block off a chunk of time to get something done--whatever you need.Do it now.In tomorrow's post, I'm going to tell you more about how to prune and reset your to-do list.