Happy New Year everyone! We made it through 2021, albeit a little wiser to "the new normal". Businesses were able to adapt in remarkable ways to accommodate the buying public and new ones sprung up to address needs uncovered thanks to the pandemic.
We also saw an increase in domestic violence and police calls to residences because people weren't used to spending so much confined time with their loved ones (and not being able to go to places as freely as they had previously).
Can You Relate?
What does this teach us? It teaches us that there is a need for self-help/healing if we can't manage what's making us upset and have to take it out on the closest person to us. It teaches us there is so much room for improving not ourselves but our environment so as to make it a better experience for the next person and for ourselves at the same time.
It seems many of us have taken "the golden rule" for granted (you know, THAT rule which states "treat others as you would want others to treat you"), or have ignored it completely. Service and retail workers are being reported about in the newspapers on how they are being treated by unruly customers that seemingly have "snapped" and forgotten about common decency and courtesy.
I've been fascinated with relationship dynamics (and not just the personal kind either) and never have I been more so than recently, with special thanks to the countless events and reports on TV and digital media. I've been looking at relationships that occur between person to person as well as person to business and why some interactions seem to go better than others, and how experiences and interactions can be improved.
Resolve.
In 2021 I'm sure we had things we started but never finished. This year I resolve to share more consistently what I discover regarding improving the relationship/experience dynamics both interpersonal and professional.
Let's make 2022 the year we resolve to finish what we started (or at least progress further than where we left off) and leave it t(his time next year) in the history books with no regrets.
Cheers!
-John Provost
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