So. Lately I have been unhappy about the way that... I don't get my way. It's not even like I'm trying to take advantage of people, I'm seriously just trying to help... I'm just not persuading or appealing enough to make people think that what I have to say is important enough to act on.
As a younger person, I was a natural leader. I don't think much has changed about me since then, I honestly think it's the way people become more confident in themselves and their own decisions as they grow. I don't know... maybe I did change. Maybe I became arrogant. Maybe I became a brat. Regardless. I want to be a better leader. I have good intentions in that I don't like to force people to do what they don't need to do. This makes me a horrible saleswoman and an awful scam artist. Mary Kay was not my thing.
"Yeah, so I really like this lip stick. The color really pops and it last for like, ever. It's just $18... for each tube...."
"O__O"
"Yeah, never mind. That's expensive as fuck."
Didn't go too well. I wouldn't spend that much for... dinner. or something. That's way too much money!!!
I don't commit to suggesting things that I know aren't important, but when something is important I commit. Hard. And do my best to get my point across, and then... They do the opposite of what I suggested. And that, my friends, I do not dig.
I picked up a book called How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie and I really enjoy the style of the writing. He breaks the ideas down into principles, granted, I only got to the end of the second principle, but so far I'm diggin' the layout and I've learned two principles already! :D
What I plan to do with this page is document my winning-friends-and-influencing-people journey and also, finish a book for the first time since seventh grade... :/
SO! Hopefully this Blogger can support the way I plan to carry out this blog.
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