How not to take rejection and disappointment so personally in your personal and professional relationships
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The arrival in the US of the recent Afghan interpreter evacuees has a profound effect on me both for keeping a promise and thinking about those left behind – also for my own personal experiences with feeling ‘left behind.’
Categories: Abandonment, abandonment, Afghan interpreters, Appreciation, Current Affairs, Evacuation from Afghanistan, Gratitude, Listened to, Heard, and Understood, Matt Zeller, No One Left Behind Keeping our Promise, Rejection, Rejection, Respect, separations, Taking Personally, translators, Workplace -
Disloyalty, Betrayal and Secrets, Too
The news is full of stories of Loyalty, Disloyalty, Betrayal and Secrets. Look under these accusations to find High Suspicion, Fear, Psychological Projection, and Taking things personally.
Categories: betrayal, Betrayal, Blame, Blame/Blaming, Disappointments, disloyalty, Distrust, Fear, Fear, Jonathan Karl, loyalty, Loyalty/Betrayal, nvisible Loyalties, Psychologial Projection, psychological projection, Rejection, Rejection, Responsibility/Taking Responsibility, Secrets, shame, Shame, taking personally, Taking Personally, taking responsibility -
Air Rage – Who Gave Permission for Such Bad Behavior?
Does Air Rage reflect these outrageous times? Along with road rage and sports rage and fast food rage and birthday party rage? Along with assaults and bloodshed? How did bad behavior become so accepted and commonplace? Scary times.
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Describing the Capitol Siege Like a Performance Piece
What Sen. Ron Johnson described about the Jan. 6 siege on the Capitol and what i saw on TV as it was happening were very different realities. I felt I was being gaslighted and it reminded me of all the…