Make it Count

So for those of you who do not know...

I am hanging up my manager hat.

I have wanted to teach for a long time, and I think that now is as good of a time as any.

I have been sorting through all the reasons that I want to teach, I have doubted my decision multiple times, but have come up with the same conclusion each time.

Follow your heart...and do something that makes a difference.

That is not to say that what I do now doesn't make a difference.

It counts...I count.

As a manager we wear all sorts of hats.

The mother hat, the authoritarian hat, the nurse hat, the counselor hat, the teacher hat, and then sometimes you have to know when to take your hat off...and just be.

Each hat gives me a different feeling of importance.

I studied communications in school and am very lucky that I possess the ability to step back from a situation and see it from all sides...

***I don't always do this...but I can...don't judge me!!!***

I am an easy person to talk to...a good listener.

And I know what a difference a simple conversation can make in someone's life...and I want to make those conversations count.

I wish I could be all the hats in the world for every person in the world.

Well...maybe not every person...but most people...

I am reminded of a story I was told one time...

A man who manages for the same company I do left his position to become a pastor.

He felt like that was his calling.

After a year or so he returned...and one of his team members asked him why he returned.

His response was that he touched more peoples lives on a daily basis in the restaurant...guests and employees than he could in a church.

I get that.

When I was in school I didn't have the best example of management....as a matter of fact I thought that it was a prereq for managers to be shady slime balls.

But my mother told me that they were my teachers...my examples of what I didn't want to be.

I couldn't blame them for being bad...that was not going be my excuse to suck.

I was just going to be better.

I am better.

So as you go out into your day...your life...remember that you are wearing a hat for someone...and you are touching someone's life.

Make it Count.

don't be someone else's excuse to suck