simple fact ~ am over the top. no number of attempts at muting my hyper whatever (you pick it) nature will succeed in muting what is. i yam what i yam & that's all that i yam.
which is not to say that i can't be muted, as needed. in business, i succeeded beyond any of my own expectations by funneling my energies into interest in meeting my clients' needs, whether it was directing them onto someone else more to address their needs or handling them myself. i gained acclaim (really!) & honors by letting people know they were visible to me (even if that just meant being pleasant) & doing what needed to be done - big or small - to meet their needs.
but i took/take great joy in doing a job well, in letting someone know they matter by serving their needs without sacrificing the company's. one of the great things i enjoyed most in the business world - the delicate dance between meeting the clients' needs without injury to the company. it made mondays a joy instead of a curse.
realized last week, making tea sandwiches & hand-crafted crackers as well as cookies for the cairnwood village "monday minister's tea" that i can no more root out that deep love of doing for others than i could stop loving john. doing for others is not a way of getting their approval - it's part of my most core nature. their approval or disapproval or even total lack of awareness of my existence is NOTHING compared to the joy joy joy of doing that's knit deep into my very being.
hope i do the "popeye" all of my life!
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