In search of inspiration this weekend, I read ‘Man’s Search For Meaning’.  Seth mentioned this book during our inaugural FLP meeting and it was a fantastic read.

Out of respect for what was such a traumatic and heinous moment in history, I hesitate to draw any analogies or parallelism to our training however there where some takeaways I noted that I found to be powerful and motivating:

  -  Drama is relative & our drama is trivial in comparison

  -  Humor can fill a room just like misery or negativity can.  We should focus on keeping our work in perspective and try to make our jobs more enjoyable for ourselves and our people.  A wise man once told me, “make work fun and it won’t feel like work”.

  -  Fatigue and irritability tend to go hand in hand.  I am always more negative and fall into the role of victim or persecutor when I’m fatigued or sleep deprived.

  -  Irritability vs Apathy; as people become more apathetic we become more irritable.  Irritability makes people more apathetic.  It’s a vicious cycle.  We need to make sure our people feel empowered to help them avoid apathy and ultimately the victim zone of the drama triangle.

  -  Our choice of attitude under any given set of circumstances cannot be taken away.  Irritability and apathy can be overcome.  Some of the stories of those unique individuals that were able to maintain positivity (a Creator’s or Challenger’s mentality) even under the most dire of circumstances.

The Holocaust is obviously well documented but if people can maintain a perspective of Creator, Coach, and Challenger under those circumstances then certainly we can all rise to the occasion in our (very simple in comparison) day to day.

Thank you,
Jordan

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