Softest Pillow

About lunchtime my conscience started to bother me. The agency had reached out to me to do the training, but they had contacted me through my former employer. I felt like I should at least talk with my old colleagues about the training to see if they wanted to do the training with me.

I called Ryan who had replaced me as Director of Training.  He saw no problem with me doing the training on my own. I had been 99% sure that’s what he would say.

I said to the cat, “I mean, it was an ethics training.  Calling him was the ethical thing to do. I had to be 100% certain it was OK.”

My cat stared at me. I knew what he was thinking. ‘If you hadn’t been almost certain you could keep the whole training fee, would you have called?’ I wanted to think I would have called. In any case, I knew I would go to bed that night with a clear conscience.

Today I’ll remember the saying: “The softest pillow is a clear conscience.”

Burnout Training ©2018 by Ken Montrose

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