Not Lucky, But Not Unlucky, Life Patterns

It took me one whole day before I began to realise that the free ticket I "won" was the same ticket that's part of the buy-one-free-one deal. So I wasn't lucky to have won an extra free ticket which to me was like winning a lucky draw prize. But I was also lucky to have been part of the buy-on-free-one deal which was given to only the first 50 customers.

I realized that there were some life patterns involved. My brother's life pattern (and also a couple of close friends in my life) is that he doesn't give details when giving instructions and just assume that everything will fall into place in the end. My life pattern is that I assume I know the detail already and not ask for it. So when these two life patterns come together, miscommunication and misunderstanding arises. What I can do is to be aware of this pattern and break it every time it arises. 

Yesterday everyone in the office came in more well-dressed than usual. One thing I realized about myself was that I almost not follow through with the initial idea of putting on a jacket because the weather was so hot. But I reminded myself that as a leader I have to show up as my best. What's a little heat if I could be seen as walking the talk? It's most important that I came in looking what I meant and not appear to trivialize the situation.