It doesn’t mean you’re always happy or never rock the boat or always following the rules or just being super laid back all the time. Those things might encompass the ‘easy’ part.
But to be easy to WORK with…
It means you speak with clarity, show up prepared, take responsibility, make others better, embrace the long term vision as you take care of today’s details. And you show up on time.
If you ask anyone what their favorite song is, they’ll say they can’t name a favorite. Which is too bad because the whole point of asking the question is to have an exciting conversation about a great song.
The remedy is to ask them to name one song that would definitely be in their top five. It’s still a bit of a struggle but there’s always excitement there. It’s fun.
A song that would have to land in my top five? Oasis- Champagne Supernova
You?
»» A while back I put together my favorite fifty songs. It’s really fun to do and harder than you might think. Try it.
That’s what we often think when someone gives us a compliment…’you’re just saying that to make me feel good because you don’t want to hurt my feelings with what you really think…because what you really think is that it’s not that great’.
And the truth is…sometimes they are just saying they like it in order to make you feel good.
But it’s hard to tell. Not everyone is lying.
So there’s the rub.
You can spend time and energy deciphering who is telling the truth and who isn’t…and then once you’ve deciphered, you can spend time and energy dwelling on the ones who don’t actually like it.
Or you can take heart in the fact that some people (probably most people) are telling the truth…and that the voice in your head saying ‘you’re just saying that’ is actually your own voice just trying to sabotage a good thing.
First Monday of the month…new Hum Love play list on Spotify and Apple.
When you write the first part of the song you don’t know if it’ll ever get finished.
When it gets finished you don’t know if it’s going to get recorded.
When it gets recorded you don’t know if it’s going to get released.
When it gets released you don’t know if anyone is going to listen to it.
When it gets listened to you don’t know if anyone is going to like it.
When people like it you don’t know if anyone is going to let you know.
There’s too much unknown for you to be in it for the accolades.
You have to like the work.
If you don’t like the work it’s just too much work.