Focus on What Matters
September 15, 2023
Focus on What Matters
I sometimes worry that I will run out of things to talk about here, but something always seems to come through. That breakthrough thought today is the self-acknowledgement that I just might be a bit overly protective of the people and places that I love, and prone to comparison. Perhaps you too can relate. Have you ever found yourself talking with someone who begins saying negative things about your community and discover the hairs on the back of your neck begin to rise? You then square your shoulders and stand up straighter. For me, to the whole of my whopping five foot, three and three quarters inch frame.
I then begin compiling a mental list of all our positive attributes ready for rapid fire, and then I unload. I do attempt to do so, however, with grace and truth. I must admit sometimes there may be only a sprinkle of grace, with an outpouring of my truth. I fully understand that at times it falls on deaf ears, but it does not negate the fact that I feel this is my job, not just as the Chamber director, but as a proud community member. I need to defend what is ours, with soldier-like dedication. This can, however, become a misapplied urge that needs to be tempered. Let me explain.
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