I so often see the world divided into two…
This week, there were numerous times where I was involved / called into situations that involved:
two parties
at least one difficult topic/situation
hurt feelings & misunderstandings
important consequences
It’s constant….
every week,
and virtually every day…
Everything is about people,
and people are about
connectedness
or
disconnectedness,
and the difference happens through communication,
but it’s not communication,
it’s values and mindset.
I see the world divided into two:
Most people, in most conversations, live in a place of “you are WITH me or you are NOT WITH ME!”
I come at every conversation from a place of “I am always with you”.
And, that makes a WORLD of difference.
If your thinking is “you are with me or not with me”,
it is a world of RIGHT and WRONG…
and the only “RIGHT” place is the one that agrees with you.
If your thinking is “you are with me or not with me”,
it is a world of black and white, of zeroes and ones,
of preset conditions and hard lines.
It is a common world, a divided world, a positioned world…
an anxious world.
And, if you are from that world, your communication reflects it, and your words reflect it, and your heart reflects it…
We all know that world….
I LIVE and WORK in a different place…
I am ALWAYS WITH YOU!
I am!
Because I believe in you, I trust that you are working in the very best interest that you deem appropriate for our business, for our team…
Because I appreciate the value that you bring - the competence that you have, the experiences that you’ve lived, the context that you’ve lived…
Because I know in your heart of heart you want to do great and be great…
Because I know at your core, you want to be connected…
And you are worthy of connnection…
I believe that and because I do,
when I talk to you,
you hear it
and you feel it…
And the world stops being
black
or white…
and it becomes a wonderful shade of grey…
The lines blur into slopes,
and right and wrong
start to overlap
into options and solutions…
but above all,
what matters is that I am not asking you to choose…
between “right” and “wrong”…
I am asking you to choose
between “forward” or “backward”
and importantly,
we are choosing it together…
The world changes from that place…
We may be wearing different jerseys,
but no one is playing a game…
we are brothers and sisters,
not in a game,
but on a journey…
How do I help others… how do I help myself find this world more often…
This week, there were numerous times where I was involved / called into situations that involved two parties…
I was brought in
because I communicate differently,
because I believe & see differently.
because
I never I saw it as TWO…
I saw it always as one…
I saw YOU,
and, I am always WITH YOU!
No matter what path we chose or choose,
even if we choose disagreement,
we choose it together…
because I respect you,
And
it will connect us,
move us …
and we will be connected
through the grey…
forward
in harmony,
Nestor