Feedback...And The Male Art Of Shuffling!


As the days and years go on...I am constantly trying to work out one thing...

WHY!

Both you and I should be seriously considering...

- WHY we do what we do
- WHY we don't do what we do
- WHY we have done something in the past...yet struggle to do again
- WHY we spend more time worrying than doing (but you've been there, right?)

And....many more WHYs I haven't written down!

We're complicated creatures - yet, in a way, we work simply.

And - it's all down to how we value and use FEEDBACK.

For example...

Over the last few weeks I have had a cough that has now progressed into a cough/cold...and, as my wife Lesley would say - it would be easy for me to start 'shuffling' my way through the house feeling sorry for myself as I have done so many times in the past!

(Note: If you're a man - you'd understand!)

Yet this time - although I do feel somewhat 'under the weather'...I feel a little different.

Why?

Well...instead of just accepting that, because I 'usually' get a summer cold, and suffer from a mild asthma - I've questioned WHY.

WHY do I suffer from the odd cold and wheezing fits? (albeit a lot less than I used when I commuted and worked in an office)

Well...I KNOW that I am a positive thinker - and I know that I am not actively shuffling and feeling sorry for myself (most of the time!).

But...I also know that I am overweight for my size...and, since I begin this nomadic sitting-in-front-of-a-computer-all-day-long lifestyle - the only real exercise I take is chewing my food! (and the occasional walk by the beach).

So...instead of just ACCEPTING that I will *always* be ill every now and again - I'm looking for the FEEDBACK from my body.

And that feedback is telling me that I should treat it with a little more respect and not take it for granted!

In exactly same way as I do my business and my relationships.

Except this realization has taken me a lot longer than the other two!

So, for YOU - what feedback is YOUR body, relationships, or work effort giving YOU?

If it's good - great! But...if, like me - it may not be - how are you going to WORK with the feedback that you've been given so that it DOES become better?