Being offended can be expensive. Being offended is also a choice. And of course there are people that you don’t want in your network. But if you’re offended by every little thing, you’re going to push a lot of people away. You’re not going to agree with everyone about everything.
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New Book: The View From The Deck: Thoughts on Values, Vision, and Gratitude
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I have published a new book. It's called "The View from the Deck Thoughts on Values, Vision and Gratitude". If you like morning motivation, you're going to love this book. You can find it on Kindle and in paperback form on Amazon and the audiobook is coming soon. So check out "The View from the Deck Thoughts on Values, Vision and Gratitude" on Amazon now. Being offended can be a very expensive occupation. You see, your network is your net worth. You know that. But choosing to be offended will cut off pieces of your network. Now there are some people you do not want in your network. There are some people who are just nasty, awful, selfish people. Some people are hateful, some people are spiteful, and people you don't want. But then there are people maybe who don't agree with them on certain issues that aren't really relevant to networking. They're a Democrat and you're a Republican or a vice versa. Or maybe they have different opinions on language or they think it's okay to use certain words and you don't like those words. What have you? Different people do things different ways. Some people tell jokes. I don't mean racist jokes, but I mean jokes you don't think are funny and maybe you're offended by. You may say, well, I'm offended by the way that person speaks or by whatever. And you can do that. But every person that you are offended by who you choose to push away is no longer in your network of supporters. Your success is built on people who feel good about you and like what you do. And like what you're doing and how you're doing, it's got a good vibe about you and who want to help you out. And if you are telling them that they need to change the way they speak or they need to change the way they think or they need to change the way they joke, they're not going to have a good feeling about you anymore. They're not going to help you anymore. Maybe you say, well, that's not fair. That's not fair. I should not have to put up with their crude humor or their using the wrong pronouns or whatever. If I want to get ahead, then maybe it's not fair. Maybe you shouldn't have to put up with that. But maybe you can build an entire network of just people who agree with you and think the way you do and talk the way you do and joke what you do. And if you can, God bless you and I hope it works. But I don't think that's the easy path. I think the easy path is to realize, you know what, I'm not going to agree with everyone on everything. But they're doing things mostly for the right reasons. They see like a generally good person. If they make some off-color jokes that make them uncomfortable, I'm just going to kind of deal with it. Move on. Or maybe, you know, you can certainly say, hey, I'm not comfortable with that. I would rather you not say that around me. You can do it every one. If you could not say that around me, that would be great. But, you know, no judgement. That's cool. Boys are judging people when you start being offended. Boys are saying, you shouldn't tell a joke anywhere to anyone ever. It makes you a bad person. You know what, it's the easy solution. I'm just not going to hang out with you anymore. I'm not going to help you. Being offended can be very expensive. I have published a new book called The View from the Deck, Thoughts on Values, Vision and Gratitude. If you like morning motivation, you're going to love this book. A lot of the same concepts. The basic principle of the book is that I was coaching clients and they were telling me about their dream life. And I was recognizing elements of their dream life in my everyday life. And it made me realize there's things in my life that people are dreaming of. And there's things in my life that the me of a few years ago would absolutely have given his right arm for. And chances are you've got the same. So, I took these concepts about values and what makes us do what we do. And it's a vision where we want to be in gratitude, appreciating the awesome things we have and put them together into one awesome book called The View for the Deck, Values, Vision and Gratitude. You can find it on amazon.com. Just search for Michael Whitehouse, The View from the Deck, and get your copy today!
