The Hinderance…
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No…It’s not a difficult phrase to say and implement when the No is called for…But We found it difficult to implement No when it came to our inner emotions…
We were being the hinderance to what was needing to be said in our meetings with our Vice Presidents. Our team was stuck and frustrated. At one point we all discussed putting in our two weeks, because it just felt like what is the point in all of this? We questioned ourselves over and over again. What do they want from us? Our inner thoughts are now beginning to surface and make themselves known to everyone around us. We didn’t want to give up but we all were ready to throw in the towel and begin our journeys somewhere else. Deep down we knew we needed to voice our concerns and provide verbal clarification to what was needed so We can be successful. BUT in the moment, we decided to be our own hinderance. Fear came over us and we all succumbed to our own inner personal feelings. We were the hinderance…
Our team was stuck in a place again for the third time where we are beginning to question ourselves. We were stuck in a place where we began to focus on our own inner feelings. Once again, we have succumbed to our own feelings and thinking about I and My team, instead of The Team as a whole. Our admissions and marketing department has the tools and ability to help and provide what is needed for the facilities to be successful in reaching their goals, but that can only be done when we aren’t the hinderance. As our personal feelings began to spill out of us and into the facilities there was a divide growing that needed to be stopped immediately. Our team is made up of individually strong people that have no problem telling others NO, but had the hardest time saying No to our own inner selves. We wouldn’t allow others to bring in their own negative attitudes into this department. But we allowed our own individual negative attitudes the ability to run the show from the inside out. We were being a hinderance not just to our department but to The Team as a whole. We couldn’t allow our No acceptance of negativity only be for “outsiders”. If we didn’t allow others to bring in negativity in the department, then the same strict rule applied within ourselves. We had to change our character and thinking because we turned ourselves into outsiders.
It wasn’t as if we wanted to be a hindrance to ourselves and to our Team on purpose. But we purposely fed into our negative inner thoughts and feelings that put our department in a team mentaitlity that was focused on the individual first and team second. As we complained and groaned amongst ourselves we began to operate as a team but in the wrong direction. We began to keep things amongst ourselves and isolate our own department because of these negative inner thoughts. Accepting our Yes negativity allowed us to remain quiet in times that we needed to speak up. We brought fear amongst ourselves that kept our mouths closed in moments that we needed to speak and be apart of The Team. We couldn’t understand what They wanted from us, and why are They always questioning us? For some reason we couldn’t understand why The Team just wanted to know how can We help and what resources do you need? Our negativity was so loud and spilling out everywhere we were working in the delusion of Me against the World.
Our department realized that our accepting of our own hinderance and not being able to say No to our own inner feelings was the big red STOP sign to all of the right Yes’s. The Team was saying Yes we are here to help, how can we help, what do you need help with? But our own hinderance put a STOP to any Yes because our department was operating as team but not with the same vision and clarity as The Team. We couldn’t see the right Yes in anything because we were too busy feeding the wrong Yes that was our big red STOP sign. Yes, we accepted our own negative inner thinkings and thoughts, and Yes we were operating as a team, but not with The Team. Our department of admissions and marketing is not my team or our team, We are a part of The Team. In order to stay in alignment with the overall focus and goal We can’t allow ourselves to be our own hinderance. We could no longer be the outsiders feeding into the wrong Yes. It was time for us to say No to our own inner feelings and thinking and begin to operate as The Team with The Team.
“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.” (Psalm 32:8, NIV)
