Keep Your Enemies Close: Work Edition

I once had this co-worker who was “difficult to work with.” And even my whole team had agreed that we would try to avoid meetings with her because she would ramble on, and always wanted to change things and everything always took longer when she was there.

Because of yoga, I decided to start trying to not resist everything at work. Unfortunately for me, this included not resisting this team member and everything she brought to the table.

I was willing to admit that she was smart, but the price to pay for it always seemed so high. Until…with my new non-resistance mindset, I started letting her be right, and started just going along with what she wanted to do. It didn’t mean I stopped asking questions, but I stopped resisting long enough to listen to her ideas.

Eventually, I started really learning from her, and it turned out that her ideas were better than mine, and every time she challenged my work, I wouldn’t be surprised by it any longer. So, I could make changes without getting in a fit about the fact that my work wasn’t A+.

I started getting better at my job. My boss noticed. I got promoted. And then I got promoted again. HA!

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