Want to ride the road to workplace ruin?

Jul 20, 2006 21:30

It was funny, today I was thinking to myself about how unfair life is sometimes, I guess mainly because of my specific situation. I am passionate, a high performer, have a lot to offer in terms of creative energy and leadership, am well centered in maturity and am not afraid to step up in times of adversity, so why? why am I not given the chance to spread my wings and be promoted just yet? Lack of respect in terms of professionalism? Maturity? I dont look, walk or sound the part? well I'm not sure yet but I am doing all that I can do and feel like I am failing miserably, but I know in some right I am improving daily but not quickly as I'd like. I guess its people with elephant sized egos that make me want to be at a position of authority much quicker, people who abuse their privileges, arent nearly as passionate as me, and who let their EGO do the driving. I know I would flourish and will flourish given the proper education and right opportunity so letting something like this bring me too far down just isnt me, but I was checking out this web site and came across something really amusing... it just help prove to me that I need to stick to being myself, and that even though life is not fair sometimes.. Everything happens for a reason.. and my time will come.
These sayings are not things that I'm guilty of, just things I feel a specific other may be guilty of at times:
Should life be going too uncomfortably well for you, the following list shares some of Stein's suggestions to reverse the positive cycle: Ways to Ruin Your Life
# Don't learn any self-discipline
# Convince yourself you're the center of the universe
# Never accept any responsibility for anything that goes wrong
# Criticize early and often
# Make the people around you feel small
# Live as if truth is relative -- a distant relative
# Remember that no one else counts
# Show everyone around you that you are holier than thou
# Fight the good fight....over everything
# Do it your way
# Think the worst of everyone
# Whenever possible say, "I told you so"
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