This has happend to me a few times. Each time I have learned to hold off, don't hit send!, Don't say anything or do anything until your emotions cool off!
Yeah, I held off for 5 days recently, and still I blew it. I had someone read my email to make sure I had stripped it of emotion. I presented my position on the disagreement with what I thought was a "business professional" manner. Still, I blew it. I fucked up.
After my email was cleared by a third party outside of the business, I had to add one more sentence. Yep. That's the sentence that killed me. But to me when I read it, it really wasn't much. It wasn't offensive, contained no fowl language and clearly to me, I wasn't attempting to stab a steak knife into the person.
Why did I add the last sentence? I was trying to open the person's mind up to a bigger market then they could see. Simple as that. But that person could not see my intention and thought the last sentence was some kind of blow to the jawbone.
It's frustrating as hell at times communicating to people whom you need to help your business, as well as they need you to help theirs. It's probably even worse, that I have a sixth grade level of grammar to use as my communication device.
I know I am extremely different than probably most, business professionals, because I've never been one. But I've been a human being, my whole life. I do not set out to hurt people. Yet, when I do, it hurts me deeply. It torments my soul, makes me feel like I died, or wish that I would.
All I want to do is good business. All I want to do is build my ideas. I need people to help me do that. When I screw up the people part, it breaks me.
My advice, leave out the last sentence of death ~
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