I care. I care deeply about delivering quality to my Customers, service excellence day in and day out. I want to be first in class, a shining example of the highest and best. Unfortunately, while daily making progress, I fail short far more often than I meet my own standards… which, admittedly, may even be above and beyond perfection.
It is all too easy to get discouraged, daunted or dismayed, to be crestfallen when the apartment you worked so hard to turn is returned to you trashed or the person you coached and coached to the best of your ability makes the same mistake for the 3rd time in just weeks.
How to maintain your motivation, your drive, your sanity? Avoid burnout? I realized a long time ago that I had to find some sort of mental frame of mind to adopt in order to stay sane, in order to continue to give my best continuously.
‘Measured Caring’ was my solution. I had to continue to care but in an effective way, a way that was sustainable. So I learned to do and give my best… and then release. I focused more on the process than the outcome. It either worked or it didn’t. If it didn’t, I try again tomorrow, in a better or different way, smarter and wiser for the lesson… however, I released/reduced my emotional attachment to the outcome.
My caring was measured, I learned how to ‘pace my passion’; I was running a marathon, not a sprint.
Closing Quotes:
“It’s not the load that breaks you; it’s the way you carry it.” – Lou Holtz, b. 1937
“Do your work. Then step back. The only path to serenity.” – Tao Te Ching, Chapter 9
“The secret of mastery is repetition… with detachment from the immediate results.” – Robert Greene, b.1959, Mastery
As always, I share what I most want and need to learn. – Nathan S. Collier
Note: Every effort has been made to properly source any 3rd person material. I am, however, a voracious reader. If anyone finds any unattributed material, pls let me know asap and I will be delighted to give credit where credit is due.
“All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832
