AOC: Ain’t it awful?
We are coming to the end of our practice on Have To/Choose To. Today, really listen to the conversations around your organization or your circles of colleagues and friends. Where do groups of people… or teams…fall into “I have to” and “I can’t?” To what degree do people collude in each others’ victimization? Do people engage in “Ain’t it awful” conversations? (as in: I can’t get support from the members on this!….”Yeah, ain’t it awful.”) Or are there norms of engaging and inspiring each other to test the limits of what’s possible? To what extent are the conversations infused with “Can’t do?” Or “Can do?”
If you have an organization, to what degree do people feel like power and expression is impeded… or supported by the organizational culture and power structure (including the impact of your own leadership).
“I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. There may be things we cannot change. We cannot change our past… we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.. But we can change our attitude. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.’’ Charles R. Swindoll
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