Cut Them Some Slack | The No BS Coaching Advice Podcast

By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter

This was recorded during the pandemic as we were starting to emerge a little bit. I think the lessons still hold true.

EP 173 Everyone seems a little touchy these days.

This is the No BS Coaching Advice. Podcast, episode 173. I’m your host Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter and welcome! <singing> Welcome to another episode, another show, another day at home for me which I pretty much like for a month with one exception I went to at one time for things where I needed to go to two different stores one of which I was able to shop in my car and the other one was I had to go into Whole Foods and that was not a good experience with people rushing past me invading the space and not being patient for others to clear out for them. But I digress. Part of that is I think we’re a little a little agitated we’re all a little fearful hiding in our masks. Rightly hiding in our masks and doing the best that we can at a time where we’re imbalanced. We have the expectation that others are going to be perfect but we get a little bit of a pass on it if we’re not perfect, even though we know better. That’s the way so many people are acting solely with our political leaders–that everything should have been perfect, even though there’s generations of them who have left us in imperfect situations and now during this crisis that everything should have been anticipated and handled  so someone wouldn’t feel degree of discomfort. Lord knows, all of us in our work have the desire to do things perfectly and are not successful, right? We have a huge amount of information and yet we’re imperfect right? And I’ll just simply say folks remember almost everyone in their life almost everyone that you need is trying the best they can to do what they can and it’s never going to turn out perfectly all the time. Give it a break.. Stop blaming others. Take a deep breath and enjoy this Sabbath day where we’re all a little bit crazed from having been indoors for so long and cut other people some slack . . . as long as you’re not the one who’s getting hurt, admit it. Do you make mistakes? Lots of them own up to them.  We’re all under a lot of pressure these days and sometimes our best qualities don’t come out. That’s true of our political figures, right? That’s true of us too. They are human beings; we are human beings. We make mistakes. Where we can be better than them is acknowledging our mistakes and doing it in a way that will convey your sincerity. Own up to what you do wrong. No one expects you to be perfect. Well, they hope you’re going to be perfect as I brought down the previous segment but you’re not going to be that way. But where you can be perfect is owning up to the mistake that you made and asking for forgiveness, providing a gift in return as a way of demonstrating your desire to be, shall we say, honest with people and own up to your mistake. You can send it through Amazon to someone. Just have it arrive with them so that they have that expression of your care for them and the fact that you know you did wrong and you want to improve on the relationship with them. Try that; they will be remarkably surprised.

 

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a coach who worked in recruiting for what seems like one hundred years. He is the head coach for NoBSCoachingAdvice.com. He is the host of “The No BS Coaching Advice Podcast,” and “No BS Job Search Advice.”

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