Imagine….you’re very focused at work – you’re in the zone and you’re pumping out the work – and you love it – it is the gliding feeling…you’re proud of yourself.

But then the annoying coworker stops by and begins their ‘whine’…nothing takes you off your game more than a whiner.    You can feel yourself gritting your teeth and holding your breath…and in a nano second…you are have been taken off your game…and you ‘bite back’ to the annoying coworker with a look of disgust or possibly even a biting comment.   The personal impact to you falls in three areas of impact:

1) It has taken you off your gliding performance – you move from efficient to ineffective.

2) You are disappointed in your own response to a coworker.

3) Your coworker doesn’t understand what they did – so how will they ever adjust?

Your automatic response is your ‘default setting’ and it is putting you in a lose/lose situation.  It may be time to adjust that default setting and create a new personal setting.

Question:  What is your default setting?   Does it need to be adjusted?  What would be a more effective ‘default setting’.   Think about your default setting and the impact it is having on you and others.