A true but embarrassing story…

A few months back, late at night and overtired, someone left a comment on one of my posts that made me really angry.

I thought they were insulting me and smearing my brand and my blood began to boil.

I was furious and my ego needed to defend itself.

I started to think of all the comebacks and responses I would comment back with to let ‘em have it, as if I were some lawyer preparing a case for a trail.

Luckily for me at the time I was rolling through some mentoring with clients teaching them about the red light/green light system and I decided to sleep on it before responding.

The next morning I woke up, meditated, had a cup of tea and fell back into a relative state of clear thinking and ease.

I decided against commenting back on the post and instead politely emailing the individual to clear the air and make things right (a very different approach to what I had considered doing the night before when I was furious).

I went back to the post to find their comment so that I could reference it in the email and when I did I was both shocked and embarrassed to discover that they had not been insulting me at all…

That they were actually complimenting me.

In my state of tiredness I had misread and misinterpreted the comment.

I was sooooo incredibly grateful in that moment that I hadn’t commented the night before.

Had I done so, I would have likely lost a fan/client and I would have no doubt lost self confidence through the experience.

So here is the basic rule of thumb for the red light/green light system:

RED LIGHT = STOP –  Don’t send the email, don’t get on the sales call, don’t make the investment, don’t hire/fire

GREEN LIGHT = GO! – Send the email, get on the sales call, make the investment, start the project, hire/fire 

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