Message of the Day - Discretion - Valor, you know the connection

Good Morning,

 

We have big dreams and high hopes. And often life puts opportunities in front of us. Many factors determine if we rush in and grab the opportunity or if we hold off. Having a support group to help you make those decisions is great, but many times we have to go it alone.

 

This is especially true in working with or for organizations. Sometimes we are enamored by what the group does, or what we can learn from the group, or we look forward to the people we can work with in those organizations.

 

Opportunities in these organizations may open up for us, and we have to decide if we should take that opportunity. Some people will take any opportunity that comes by thinking they are few and far between. Others will be able to sit back and assess the situation to see if it is a great fit.

 

In making that assessment, we need to determine if our strengths are going to be put to use or will we be working with our weaknesses for the most part. This is very important. If we perform a function which we have done for a long time, but hate doing it, then being given a better opportunity to do the same thing will most likely end up creating another period of time hating what we do. More money will not make a weakness into a strength nor make something we hate into something we like. Sure it will be better for a while, but then when the novelty of the salary increase wears off we are back to square one.

 

If we will have to work in an environment that we do not do well in, it should be a reason to think it through before joining in. For example, I work well in chaos and chaotic environments. I slowly build order and structure and am okay with the bumps in the road that come often. Change that a little to where there is a ‘war’ or continued ‘heated discussions’ like in an election or a volatile work environment, like politics, then my skills falter quickly. I tend to lose my cool faster than I would like. And although I am better than I was, I am not much better. Working in that kind of environment would stress me out and make it hard for me to use my strengths.

 

It is those times, when we know that we will be working with our weaknesses and not our strengths that we should bow out and not take advantage of the opportunity.

 

When opportunities arrive, and they sometimes come in the strangest ways, discretion is the better part of valor in determining if we should take it or not.

 

Enjoy!

 

 

Sanford Berenberg

Sanford@berenberg.net

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