Thursday, May 29, 2008

I have been testing my monday life thoughts.

My Monday life thoughts this week was about pointless conversation and I have been trying to change the way I say hi to people and it is much harder than I thought. I have always said "whats up" to the people I walk by at work. This is a very hard habit to change. I haven't asked anybody if they care yet but this will be reserved for people like the guy at Starbucks that really doesn't care. Last week I passed a mangers office and said "whats up Mike" he responded with "good Steve". I never stopped to hear his response and he never looked up from his work when he responded. This just seemed unhealthy and pointless. Yesterday I walked by the same mangers office and said " "good morning Mike" and he responded with " hey good morning to you to Steve". I slowed down long enough to get his response and he looked up from his work to respond back. I feel this was a huge break through in my proper communication development. I didn't ask a question I didn't care to know about but I greeted him without being rude. This is the true point of my Monday life thought this week. Try it and let me know how this goes for you.

1 Comments:

Blogger Brian said...

Immediately after your morning interaction, Mike ran to Human Resources and had a meeting with them about you, eerily standing in his door way, with your strange morning greetings, staring at him waiting for him to look up and respond.

The entire company is on "postal worker" alert.

May 31, 2008 10:02 PM  

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