- there is always a positive side to the situation. Always.
- corollary: if you make a choice, you do everything it takes to make it the right choice. There are no real bad choices (apart from a few, like the first shot of heroin, or other obvious ones)
- the surest way to be liked, is to like.
- the surest way to be loved, is to love.
- all people are interesting, if you can ask the right questions. A game in itself.
- getting along is the best way to get things done.
- If you manage to always remain calm, you will be on top of the situation.
Unfortunately that last one is a difficult one for me. I’m the gunpowder type: if you rub me wrong, i’ll blow up in your face. And that is a bad, bad thing. Not to say something you will regret later. I’m working on it. Seriously. By the time i’m fourty i want to be a true diplomat.
(breathe in, breathe out. breathe in, breathe out. count to ten, and then backwards. And then the alphabet)
That looks like my own list of personal rules. However, I didn’t know this one:
“all people are interesting, if you can ask the right questions. A game in itself.”
It’s really nice. I have to think about it next time I meet a ‘dull’ person.
well, those are guidelines: i don’t pretend i always succeed in following them :-/
but that one is usually true.
Use “Check out” after or during a blow up.
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The more you practise it the better you will get at it.
(And check out also when other people blow up.)
(You can practise at the next bootCamp in Februari
that is why I found it a good idea you showed up at my BarCamp session…