Been reading and listening to a variety of things to improve whatever needs improving. I have latched onto a couple of phrases from Larry Winget.
"Shut up, stop whining and get a life!" (You must be willing to DO whatever it takes to be successful. You MUST be willing to take a stand for what you BELIEVE and NOT waiver.)
"If your life sucks, it's probably because you suck." (You are responsible for your life.)
"You can't have it all, you have to make choices and you have to give up something to get something." (It's called sacrifice. In order to get healthy you have to give up all that crap that made you UN-healthy.)
If you aren't satisfied with where you are and your life as it is, quit hanging around with those people you call friends who support you and tell you that you are okay where you are.
Employers have to be careful to not have much of a backbone and tell people what they really think. They won't tell people that they are not hiring them because ....and actually give a valid reason. They just don't and the poor sap goes around to prospective employers doing the same ignorant thing and wondering why he isn't being hired. Then they wind up with people that have to be continually motivated because they don't realize that most of life is not done because we feel like it but because it simply has to be done. If they don't feel like working, they find other things to do or even leave to go to appointments that don't exist.
Keeping employees motivated isn't what it's all about. If you have to work to keep your employees motivated, maybe you hired the wrong people. Most work is completed because it needs to be done, not because someone is highly motivated to do it.
We are a coddled, infantile lot. Our feelings are hurt at the drop of a hat primarily because we think the universe revolves around us. We need to get over it. The world was here first and owes us absolutely nothing. Employers and management are no less insulated from the ME crowd as they cater to those whims of the few who are so tender that someone MUST say, "Good morning, kind sir. Wouldst thou please movest thy coat-tails so I may properly kiss thy rather large posterior?"
Or, if female, say, "How doest thou this grand morning? Thou lookest very comely with thy lovely makeup and thy magnificent hair adorned so beautifully! It is certainly a pleasure to be speaking with you this glorious day!" And add, "How best may I serve you in all that you desire? Every wish you may have is just a twitter within me to grant to its conclusion."
As opposed to, "It's me, how can I help you?"
And if you were to say to some flibbertigibbet that he was more of a man than he acted, well, my word, bring in the National Guard and surround the office because someone done got their itty-bitty feelins hurt!
To be continued.... only because life goes on...
Shalom! Pray for the PEACE of Jerusalem!