Keep Your Ego in Check to Achieve Your Goals
Why do people have to be so difficult? If they just did what they are supposed to do (in other words, what you want them to do), your job and life would be so much easier and less stressful.
You might as well just ask why someone doesn’t just give you a million dollars. Some things are just the way they are and there’s nothing we can do about it.
If you get angry at the other person for standing in your way, you will soon find yourself in a battle of wills that no one can win. All that will happen is that feelings will get hurt, nothing productive will be accomplished and, worst of all, time that could have been productively spent trying to achieve your goal has been wasted, never to be recovered.
I try to remember what my mentor used to tell me. Everyone acts the way they do because they are human, not necessarily because they are mean or stupid. Where people differ isn’t so much in how they react to an event, but how much they react. Some people can let things go, other people can never let things pass.
So keep this in mind and make a commitment to yourself that, starting today, before you get mad at someone for standing in your way, you will first try to see things from their point of view. After all, if you think they are an obnoxious fool, it’s possible, even likely, that they think the same thing about you.
Always keep your end game in mind. Does it really matter if the other person needs their ego stroked, is a jerk, or is just bent on being a pain if, in the end, you accomplish the goal you set for yourself?
It really isn’t about you–it’s about achieving your goals. Zig Ziglar said “You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.” Wise words, indeed. Keep them in mind. Put them to use.
