daybreaktruth

Sharing good news:  In an unexpected company email just now, a director told me ‘thank you’ plus an add-on “awesome team player” – what a mind wipe!  Talk about doing a ‘re-set’ on your day’s lookahead!  Having said that, I do look back a few years to a totally opposite experience and also memorable:  I was new to California life in a Silicon Valley IT shop and was impressed by the initiative of one of the members on my new team, so I said “Well done and thank you.”  Result: blowback:  the young namby-pamby featherweight VP came directly to my desk after overhearing this praise: “Don’t you EVER say those words ‘thank you’ to anyone in this building ever!!!  They are just doing their jobs!  Don’t you get it?!!  They will expect praise because of YOU!  Your’re not working in Manhattan any more – get with the program! – no more praise. PERIOD!!!”  Yep – it stung & it stayed with me.  What goes around comes around smile: the economy took away his perk of his townhouse on Haight street that he bragged about to us worker bees.  LOL  So use the words “thank you’ and cherish being told ‘thank you’ especially unsolicited!  Pull out those emails on a blue day & smile….and ‘re-set’!  Get healthy!  Stay healthy!  pace yourself and I will do same.  Adios.

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