It was a pleasant but cold walk today, halfway up the mountain range we have to cross. Today we covered around 17 miles and about 1000 meters. It was a pretty and different scenery, lots of fall colors....we don’t get to see these colors in North Texas, so enjoy. We have met up a lady named Jen from Australia, she owns her own recruiting company and she is carrying her son's ashes with her, by the way those of you that would like to know my inspiration for the trip, watch the movie "The Way" with Martin Sheen.
We walked past several ghost towns on our way up the mountain, as well as several people picking mushrooms for their daily meal. I have a lot of time to think about some of the things we take for granted......heck more so I have plenty of time to think about the people I have taken for granted. To name only a few, my wife, my parent, my children, the people I certainly shouldn’t and I really start to self-examine why. Part of it might be pure selfishness (maybe all of it in my case) or just not realizing it. I think it might even go deeper. David Sandler used to talk about the fact that we all have a psychological stroke counter and we keep track of how many strokes we get and if we don’t get enough we go looking for them. He might have also meant it in a different way, when someone takes you for granted at work or in your professional life, perhaps we try to get our needs met by taking advantage of others.....no excuse just a thought. If an employee says to me "Sorry, I didn’t hit my number again this month, I know it is the 3rd month, but I had a great first quarter and will come back." Taking advantage of me and knowing they took advantage of me, perhaps I subconsciously take advantage of someone else. When I’m in front of a prospect and the prospect asks me, "Why don’t you put some numbers and ideas together and we will take a look at it." I know they are taking me for granted and perhaps I subconsciously take for granted someone close.
Lesson Learned:
I will stop letting people take me for granted and keep track on my ability to stop taking others for granted. When my sales department starts giving me excuses and takes for granted our hopes for them to succeed, I will no longer accept excuses. When a prospect says to me, put some ideas together and lets discuss, I will say, lets first make a decision as to whether or not we want to do business together and then I will go to work for you.......but biggest lesson is I will stop taking people for granted.
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