I’m a dork. No really. Here’s a short story…
I have a printer. I like said printer. It works well, it’s wireless and it does it’s job. But there was on frustrating thing I hated about this printer. I could NOT load the paper tray. This has been a problem since I got the printer several months ago. I dreaded the “printer is out of paper” alert message. I knew the bell alarm, and cringed when I heard it.
Why could I not load the paper tray? I had no idea, but it felt like I had to almost break the thing to get it to load. I was frustrated. A lot.
Then one day….
… I got fed up. I took that paper tray out, took a look inside and made a very humbling realization: the power cord was in the way. That’s why the paper tray wouldn’t load. *sigh*
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Take a minute to look inside.
Can you relate? Here I was, frustrated, annoyed, avoiding the problem and (quietly, yet shamefully) blaming others when the problem was mine. All it took was me looking inside that darned printer to see what was really going on.
If there is something in your office you hate doing, why is that? Is there something going on that you don’t know about? Do you need to open up the situation and look inside? Challenge beliefs that are no longer relevant?
What’s in your way?
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