Hand in Hand

we go.        .        .

or not.          .          .

The survey won’t lie,

will it.       .       .

Are you ready:

What’s the worst thing someone could say about you

about your life’s vocational choice:

A)   YOU   DIDN’T   DO   YOUR  JOB

B)   YOU   DIDN’T   DO   YOUR   JOB   WELL

Maybe there should be a

C

category.     .     .

There are studies out there that basically states:

NOBODY   C A R E S.         .        .

We chronically confuse the feeling of effort with

the reality of results.          .          .

Psychologists have long noticed what’s sometimes been called

THE   LABOR   ILLUSION

and it kind of rains on your Labor Day Picnic;

The Theory:

When it comes to judging other people’s work,

we might say we’re focused only on whether they did a good job

quickly and well–

but really we want to feel they wore themselves out for us.     .     .

For me it goes back into my history

that has always had me believing

the harder I work,

the happier I make others.       .        .

It was how I first tired to impress my parents

and then my supervisors

and then my co-workers

and then my friends

and now.          .          .

So how do you answer the survey?

Would you be hurt if people called you lazy

if they accused you of not working hard

or would you take more offense

not working well

.          .          .or smart?

Maybe  there  really  should  be  a

C

option:

C)   HE       DOESN’T       CARE

Maybe that would be the most offensive thing

that could be said of you

your work

your ethic.          .         .

The old cliche

could hauntingly be true:

PEOPLE    DON’T    CARE    HOW    MUCH    YOU    KNOW

UNTIL    THEY    KNOW    HOW    MUCH    YOU    CARE

There was an actual survey taken

which posed the question:

WHAT   IS   THE   MOST   IMPORTANT   QUESTION
A   FOLLOWER   ASKS   OF   THEIR   LEADER?

You would think it would have to do with

vision

success

going somewhere

accomplishing something

some kind of

A     C     T     I     O     N

H            O            W            E            V            E            R

The most requested

and the number one question

of followers about the Leader was

DOES     THE     LEADER     CARE     FOR     ME

The survey showed that followers wanted to know more

about the fact that the Leader

C   a   r   e   d

than the fact the Leader was

C o m p e t e n t

or that the Leader

could take them to a higher level.          .          .

They just wanted to know

before they fell in line:

DOES     THE     LEADER     CARE     FOR      ME ?

So.           .           .

what say you?

How do you answer the survey?

A)  YOU   DON’T  DO  YOUR  JOB

B)  YOU   DON’T  DO  YOUR  JOB  WELL

C)  YOU  DON’T  CARE

Which would be the worst someone could accuse you?

Maybe the only way to truly to answer the Survey

is to merely

E  L  I  M  I  N  A  T  E           I  T

simply  being

A  Caring  Catalyst

enough to never even have to pose the survey

Maybe.           .            .

it just comes to down to your

i     n      t     e     n     t     i     o     n:

A)  MAKE MONEY

B)  SECURE BENEFITS

C)  S E R V E

or to just

unequivocally 

undoubtedly 

unhesitantly

untiringly

unendingly 

with every opportunity afforded,

and when an opportunity was present.     .     .

Y             O             U

created   i t

What  say  y o u ?

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,           ,          ,

what   d o   you ?