Sitting in my office today, my assistant walked in and asked me how long I was going to let that apple sit on my desk. Thinking she was referring to my new MacAir, I said that I wouldn’t be bringing it in every day.
She was referring to the actual piece of fruit; apple, that had been sitting on my desk for the last 2 days.
I kind of like that my brain went that way.
See how you have influences my life. You will always be remembered.
RIP Steve Jobs
Some of my staff and I are at this restaurant tasting the food and drinks for an event. In doing a taste test of beer for a company event, one of my translators tried to explain to me to difference between the two beers I was tasting. She proceed to tell me that one beer was bitter while the other was sweet because the sweet beer is “Fresh Beer”. What in the world is fresh beer? I kept picturing a beer tree out back. She meant that the beer didn’t come from a bottle or can, it was a draft beer. SMH.
That same night, I was trying to talk to the cater to discuss the potential menu. I told them I wanted this and that and went on for a while. I pause to let my assistant translate for me when she looks up and exclaims, “I am a little drunk, can your repeat that.” Very professional.
Then, that same night we are driving by a bunch of furniture stores and the same translator says, ‘Wow, Furniture Center. What do they sell there?” Now mind you, she said that in Chinese (no language barrier), she was dead serious and this was before we even got to the beer tasting, so she wasn’t “a little drunk” at the time. HAHA.
Love my staff!
“My admiration of one thing is not a direct criticism of another. There is room in my heart to like/love them both.” – Me
How many times have you heard someone say that they love someones dress only to think to your self, well, why don’t they like my dress. Or, have you heard someone say that they are a great manager and think to your self, They must think I am an awful manager. I am guilty of it to.
Just because someone admires something in front of you doesn’t mean they are secretly criticising you for that same thing. Often times, please who exclaim they admire something is just that. They like something. Not inspite of something else.
Just because I say he is a good golf instructor doesn’t mean I don’t think you are good either. Just like because you say you need to hire a manager doesn’t mean I am a bad manager.
Please say things all the time and it is frutile to start thinking what people mean by what they say. You start doing that and you automatically are going to think the worst because that is what people do.
Next time you hear someone praise someone else, especially when it is something that is dear to you, say to yourself that it has nothing to do with me. More times then not it doesn’t. Don’t look more into what they say beyond the words that actually come out of their mouth.
Or, you could think of it as you are good at that something as well and that is what the person is comparing it to. It is because of your talents that someone has the ability to recognize what is good. I can measure who is a dancer, speaker, manager, friend, boyfriend, lover. Because you set such a good example. Why even consider the alternative. That is a more positive and personal inspiring way to look at the things that people say.
But, remember, you are good, kind, funny, smart, attractive and nice person. And so are you!!!
“Just be the person you wish you could be. Live the life you’d be envious of it you saw someone else living it. If I have the energy to wish for it, I have the energy to do it.”
Not sure who said this. – Again, stop talking about it, fantasizing about it, dreaming about it, envious of someone else who does it and just do it.
“Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.”
unknown author – If something you obsess over daily isn’t a good indication of what you need to be doing with your life, then what are you dreaming for. Stop thinking about it and just do it already.
Sydney Aaliyah Michelle 