Once In a While You Get Shown the Light

 

I had a boss, a few years back, who was well-meaning but basically ineffectual; he was just not good at connecting with people (a grave flaw for a person in sales). In fact, the rest of my co-workers seemed to actively dislike him, and treated him with close to open disrespect. I never really understood exactly why they were so contemptuous of him, but neither could I muster up much of a defense for him - he really was kind of a putz.

But in the course of one of the ongoing sales trainings he held, he said something which was very true and moving, and held far more significance than anything else I ever heard him say.

What he said was that no matter how successful or accomplished you are in your field, there will still be times you will do a bad job, or otherwise suffer setbacks and disappointments. And at that those times, you need to remember that there is a"you" who is not just the person doing your job. There is a "you" that was there before any job, and for that matter before any of the relationships in your life. And you need to remember that person, and to remember what that person believes in, and to take care of that person. Because your true happiness and success depend on that original "you".

("....in the strangest of places, if you look at it right...")