The Dilettante
Patron
Being a public I always hated events. It was so annoying to be reconfirmed 20 times. I never missed an event that I committed to and I never changed my mind if I had something else I committed to. I remember one time when a staff was trying to get me to the New Year's event. I told her that we always spend New Years with my family. She told me, "Oh your family will understand, just spend the next day with them." I told her that I didn't care whether they would understand or not, my family is very important to me and I was not changing my plans. She then started to tell me how important her family was to her, blah, blah blah. I told her my not going to the event was about me, not her.
My husband and I would always fight on the way in and the way out of events. The events totally keyed me in. I was always looked at as the "Why". Why he did not join staff, why he did not donate more money, why he was not on course full time.
I always thought that I hated groups and the events reconfirmed that belief. It was not until I started in my current business where I had to attend seminars that my attitude changed. I would be at a seminar with 300 people and love it. I could not think of any place I would rather be. It made me look at my reactions to attending events. After that I had no problem saying "No" to events.
My husband and I would always fight on the way in and the way out of events. The events totally keyed me in. I was always looked at as the "Why". Why he did not join staff, why he did not donate more money, why he was not on course full time.
I always thought that I hated groups and the events reconfirmed that belief. It was not until I started in my current business where I had to attend seminars that my attitude changed. I would be at a seminar with 300 people and love it. I could not think of any place I would rather be. It made me look at my reactions to attending events. After that I had no problem saying "No" to events.