I am trying to come up with some regular blog posts to do weekly when I have nothing else to talk about. Tuesdays are for tips of the trade.
The yes/no rule.
I’m not going to say that I’m an expert here but developing the skill of saying yes and no in the tech and media field is a wise choice to make. So many people think because you’re a Christian that it’s ok for them to walk all over you, and that you must say yes. It is also a common thought that because you’re in a ‘service’ roll or a ministry roll that you must say yes to every little thing. While you should try and accommodate people as much as possible you also have to be careful that you set boundaries.
I watch a lot of people just say yes to everything. They run around trying to please absolutely everyone. In turn they end up burning themselves on both ends and hating life afterward. These are also the people who look down upon you if you’re a naysayer, like you’ve commited some carnal sin because you have limits. If you’re a yes-man please be careful of crapping on others because they’re not like you (it goes both ways of course).
Then there are those who say no to much. These people end up never getting asked to do anything because they won’t ever do it. They get a bad rap because nothing is ever possible, and if you do end up goading them into accomplishing something they do nothing but complain about it, and then end product is usually sub par. No is a good word to learn for the yes sayers, but those naysayers need to add a little positivity to their vocab or else no one will want to work with you.
I learned a little bit of something from the Original Star Trek series and Scotty the engineer. Always give someone a longer time frame than it will take to accomplish something and then finish it really qick. That way you end up the hero, you didn’t say no (its more like you met half way) and you worked a miracle.
So don’t burn yourself out, and don’t anger people consistently.
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You also need to be careful of the spirit in which you say yes or no. Because you can say yes in such a way that still communicates no and vice versa.
What do you struggle with more often than not? Saying yes to much? saying no more than you should?
Christ said “no” to many requests.
Don’t know about your post, it’s conflicted
and strangled with positives and negatives, it sees hope
but speaks of despair. I bought the very same
MuteMath CD and got what I paid for, MuteMath.
Not a band resembling another or stuff changing
it’s musicology or lyrical philosophy.
Or perhaps you bought MuteMath hoping
to discover U2 or Coldplay? I’m satisfied and
clear and so is this CD.
I think my thoughts are conflicted because the album is conflicted. It wants to be good but it’s not.
I expected Mute Math to still be Mute Math, It actually was more U2 or coldplayesque and philosophically/lyrically I felt like there was a huge turn. At the core they claimed Christ in the beginning and now you feel more like they’re questioning God’s reality.
I’m not saying you should hate them, I still enjoy them and hope they still put on a great live show. i’m just not going to be spinning this album as a pre-service CD though.