Fawlty Showers

Humble and Happy

Our Chief Planning Officer, C3PO, didn’t want the job either. “Why don’t you apply?” he asked.

‘Why not?’ I wondered. Pay raise, bigger office, more prestigious title.

Each time I’d accepted a job managing people my performance had been underwhelming.  I hated meetings, I wasn’t good at directing people, and I had a bad habit of ignoring paperwork.

Why would I even consider it? For the same reason people do the same thing over and over again expecting different results.

“It’s all ego,” I said to my laptop. “The belief we can do something, maybe control something, that we really can’t.”  I thought about how much happier I’d become when I got humble and admitted I couldn’t control my drinking, I couldn’t manage people.

Today I will get humble to be happy.

 

Fawlty Showers © 2020 by Ken Montrose

Fawlty Showers is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and anyone you might know is purely coincidental.

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