Lesson 2

2010 is here! I sent an email to my close friends to help them get started on this wonderful Monday and I will share the same with you:

"Every Morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you'd better be running"

This got me fired up so I printed it out and hung it in "cube nation".

Now that 2010 is here and everyone is focused on new beginnings I decided to post a lesson that directly ties to a friend of mine. He may be the nicest human being on the planet and is very much a big picture thinker. His girl friend's friends tend to overstep their boundaries with how they treat him due to the fact that he is 1. Nice and 2. They mistake kindness for weakness due to the face he has not informed them of his personal boundaries. He called me for some advice and in short, I explained to him lesson 2.

Lesson 2: People will treat you how you allow them to

The first day in any new environment is a new beginning. New impressions, new experiences and for some, new outlooks on life. The thing that most don't take into account is the fact that no one knows what to expect from you. They don't know your strengths or your weaknesses, and most of all they don't know your "buttons". The chances of you getting taken advantage of are great because people immediately feel threatened when there is a change in THEIR environment. Let who you are be known. If you don't, the up hill battle you will face will almost be insurmountable. Changing a persons opinion is a lot harder than creating their opinion for them. Now, I am not telling you to "gangsta" jail house style and knock out the top producing sales person on the first day. Just be your self and don't be afraid to take some one aside and let them know how you EXPECT to be treated.