"Thinking of a Lion while it is a Cat"

Last week we were informed that our Business Unit Head is going to visit our office and everyone in the project is going to meet him and anyone can raise the concerns to him.

So myself with my friends were discussing in the pantry about the BU head and how about the guy? Whether our concerns will be solved or its waste of our time? Will it be effective to putforth the questions in front of him? etc etc...At the same time we all know getting an opportunity to meet BU head is like seeing rain once in a while in chennai....

On that evening, I played in my mind the entire sequence - how I would open the dialogue ,how i would stand my ground, how to react for his questions, whether my questions are valid and start keep on thinking about it, because I have seen lot of managers(they term themselves as management gurus of the company) and act like they are too worthy for the company and shows all our problem will be solved by positive speech.Afterthat, there won't be any remedy or reply for our issues.Yeap,true...Thatswhy they are called as managers because they manage the problems and for solution we want to find some one else.But it's our responsibility to put forward our points even if it not reached there ears.

As expected, the meeting day also came and i got an opportunity to met him personally as well.He is very friendly and gave time to narrate my points clearly even he was in a busy schedule.He was happy that i took the issues to his notice and he was satisfied with my discussion.

But i am not satisfied because the questions i have played in my mind was not at all asked by him.I couldn't digest how poorly I had handled the situation and the enormous stupidity I had put myself through. I walked out looking sheepish.

How often we go through unwanted emotional stress and turmoil before a confrontation, only to be faced with something of an anticlimax. The obviously unnecessary thought process makes us feel terrible - before, during and after. Yeah, sometimes things don't work out so easily and you have to fight your way. But why go in spoiling for a fight? Why anticipate a negative response? Why enter a discussion thinking your demand will be turned down? Why expend your time and energy in preparing to face a lion when it's only a cat? Why take a negative approach? Why worry about something before it happens? We would save a lot of unwanted stress if we simply decide to hold our response until the situation presents itself.

No matter what the situation, you have a case if you are true. Contingency planning doesn't apply here. When you aren't sure whether it's a cat or a lion you are about to face, preparation proves pointless. Anticipation makes a mountain out of a molehill. Face it when you come to it. Let the wisdom of the English idiom prevail -

cross that bridge when you come to it

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From my Brain....