Sunday, January 19, 2014

It is easy to be broken

In the last blog piece we spoke of respect, the flip side of getting and giving respect is the lack of.

What happens when you are in a job or relationship where there is no respect?
It can break you down.
If you allow it to.
Not only is respect and treating each other respectfully a nice thing, it is necessary in life.
Without it you can become bitter and angry and from that comes a avalanche of emotions , mostly negative. 
It will break you down if you allow it.

What to do when you find yourself in a job or relationship where you are not respected or unappreciated?

Do not lose sight of what You believe.
 Stay true to yourself, do not feed into negative or try to play their game. It will only leave you hallow and full of hate.
Hate will wear you down and produce NOTHING positive.

I have been working full time for 40 years and about 30 of them have been managing people in some aspect and through that I have learned and observed. 

I am still learning.
I find the human character fascinating and how money and power can control so much of a person.

We all want to do better and pay our bills and have a good life.
I have seen many lose sight of just the simple pleasures and get lost in wanting more, more money, more power and with that they lose sight of people around them and get a selfish attitude.
I feel bad for those people because they do not SEE what success truly is.

Do not allow others to break you down because they are lost.
Do not hate them or play in their sandbox...just continue to respect others and yourself.

The late Nelson Mandela had all the reasons in the world to hate for what was done to him but he learned that would get him no where and only darken his soul.

He learned to forgive and move on, he did not allow those around him or his surroundings to break him. 

" Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude" Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

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