Today's Intention
Yesterday was a strange one. I got some negative feedback at work about my communication style. It didn't sit with me very well on the drive home as I pride myself on my ability to communicate. The feedback was swimming around in my head this morning too. What didn't sit well with me was the fact I didn't agree with the person giving the feedback. The turmoil going around my head is how to deal with this. There are a few options but we can whittle it down to a couple. 1) Ignore and continue to communicate in a way that I believe is true to myself, 2) bend to the advice that was given to me yesterday and water down my communication style. And there is a third, adapt. The interesting observation in all of this is my stubbornness. I really want to sit with option one because I believe that my communication style is a true reflection of myself and if someone doesn't like that, that's not my problem that's their problem. But that's said, I'm always willing to learn about myself and how I make others feel. I believe that we can elevate each other through truth and finding goals we believe in. We just need to account for the fact that some people find the truth uncomfortable. So we always have to tailor what we mean by the truth. So my intention for today is to sit with my communication style. To take a moment and think about how I'm communicating and how it's making people feel. Because if I'm honest with myself, my beaming positive personality is being crushed by corporate culture recently. So I need to find a way to find the true version of Matthew again Matthew. That's really positive and communicates positivily.
I'm Grateful For
Feedback, it always cuts deep and drives a mixture of emotions. There is usually a way to find a positive in any kind of feedback. You just need to dig deeply into what's been said because there's usually some truth in there. Perhaps a truth that you're not ready to tackle and that's where the uncomfortableness can lie.
Something I'm Great At
Communicating with people. I don't care what anyone says. I know I'm good at talking to people.
