↔ the 12th Tradition reminds me of the importance of putting **principles before personalities.** ↔
Posted: Mon, Feb 23, 2009 12:23:01 PM
in meetings, this might be paraphrased, **do not shoot the messenger.**
although, sometimes it feels like my only alternative!
such as it is, i understand that what is being said, is far more important than who is saying. understanding this, and living this are two different animals for me. i am writing this way late today, even though i started my morning earlier than normal, it has just been one of those days, and thinking about this topic six hours after first reading it, perhaps gives me a different slant.
anyhow, taking a breather to reconsider what i am writing was certainly a good idea. i could launch into one of my diatribes about how someone shares, or how i judge them to say one thing and do another, or even the whole they just do not get it, so why bother game. all of those are behaviors i have exercised in the past, and probably will engage in, in the future, i am after all, not perfect and subject to the frailties of my human condition.
that is why i need to carefully consider these little recovery tidbits that come to e-mail box, every morning, no matter how many time i have read them in the past. with that thought in mind, i will get back to the task at hand and remeber it is the message not the messenger that i need to pay battention to, toady and every day.
although, sometimes it feels like my only alternative!
such as it is, i understand that what is being said, is far more important than who is saying. understanding this, and living this are two different animals for me. i am writing this way late today, even though i started my morning earlier than normal, it has just been one of those days, and thinking about this topic six hours after first reading it, perhaps gives me a different slant.
anyhow, taking a breather to reconsider what i am writing was certainly a good idea. i could launch into one of my diatribes about how someone shares, or how i judge them to say one thing and do another, or even the whole they just do not get it, so why bother game. all of those are behaviors i have exercised in the past, and probably will engage in, in the future, i am after all, not perfect and subject to the frailties of my human condition.
that is why i need to carefully consider these little recovery tidbits that come to e-mail box, every morning, no matter how many time i have read them in the past. with that thought in mind, i will get back to the task at hand and remeber it is the message not the messenger that i need to pay battention to, toady and every day.
∞ DT ∞