246: Where are We Going

<p>New Financial Years, new calendar years, new starts or not?  We religiously muscle up and set our resolutions to improve ourselves in the coming 12 months.  Often these resolutions are inwardly focused.  Lose weight, get better organized, be more patient, etc.  Every year, let’s set a breakthrough goal be it a financial year or a calendar year and make it really worthwhile going through this process.  Let’s become a catalyst, a trigger, a spark to become the light on the hill for others around us.  “Be the change you want to see” is a great Gandhi quote and tremendously wise and insightful.</p> <p> </p> <p>We can start by changing how we see others.  Instead of being a perpetual “fault finder”, a corrector of errors, a righteous blade to cut those making mistakes, a terminator of the terrible, why not try another approach?  Rather than putting others down for their failings, why not become a person who is a serial encourager and builder of others?</p> <p> </p> <p>Imagine the type of workplace you want to work in?  Is it rife with politics, backstabbing, petty power tussles, whining, bitching and complaining about others?  I doubt that is what any of us would vote for as a “workplace of the future”.  We probably want a trouble free zone, where each person pulls their weight, is cooperative, supportive, committed, capable, successful and nice.</p> <p> </p> <p>How we see others has a big influence on how we interact with them.  If we see people in a negative light, we tend to search out their poor performance, their faults and inadequacies, while remaining blind to their strengths, achievements and potential.</p> <p> </p> <p>Switch gears and start becoming a “good finder” rather than a “fault finder”.  See that each person is operating under tremendous pressures – personal, financial, health, etc.  When we see that all of us are united in carrying heavy burdens through life, we can become more empathetic, more forgiving and less judgmental.  Remember we often selfishly hold everybody else accountable to a higher