Matthew’s Blog

So much for FREE DAY today. Today has become "IN THE NAME OF THE PROFESSION DAY"

It has been nonstop today working on, answering calls, bridging people, expanding the community, and lessons coincidental activity.

I had several instances this day where I was super frustrated about some bureaucratic thing or another and in each case I discovered that I was out of relationship either with who I was working with or with what I was working on. I had a steamy email response all prepared for what I thought (perceived~a dangerous place to play) was a brush off answer to my serious question. I was distracted with a phone call. When I returned to the email a new message had arrived from a third party releasing my steam vent into harmless air. The new message apologized for a mistake on their part that effected everyone involved in my first email that caused the snaffu in the first place. My original email was never sent. Apparently my better self was looking after me and knocking on those responsible to wake up.

A message came across one of the list serves about the Fast Company blog (see below) to which so many people reacted rather than respond. I could have reacted, but then I connected to the relationships involved and the change that needed to occur, because change is in relationship too. So I wrote the below response to the original statement and the followups.

It is so much better when you can see the relationship and take responsibility for your own part of it. It is far easier to respond to the issue at hand.

So much for FREE DAY today. Today has become "IN THE NAME OF THE PROFESSION DAY"

It has been nonstop today working on, answering calls, bridging people, expanding the community, and lessons coincidental activity.

I had several instances this day where I was super frustrated about some bureaucratic thing or another and in each case I discovered that I was out of relationship either with who I was working with or with what I was working on. I had a steamy email response all prepared for what I thought (perceived~a dangerous place to play) was a brush off answer to my serious question. I was distracted with a phone call. When I returned to the email a new message had arrived from a third party releasing my steam vent into harmless air. The new message apologized for a mistake on their part that effected everyone involved in my first email that caused the snaffu in the first place. My original email was never sent. Apparently my better self was looking after me and knocking on those responsible to wake up.

A message came across one of the list serves about the Fast Company blog (see below) to which so many people reacted rather than respond. I could have reacted, but then I connected to the relationships involved and the change that needed to occur, because change is in relationship too. So I wrote the below response to the original statement and the followups.

It is so much better when you can see the relationship and take responsibility for your own part of it. It is far easier to respond to the issue at hand.