Yes, another cuppa coffee......

What can I say--I have a passion for a good cuppa coffee.

And now it's the difference between 'getting my way' and being 'effective'.
I have a list you know--leastwise I appear to be keeping a list of when I get my way and when I don't. And IF I get my way--that's 'being effective'.

Wisepersoninmylife assures me it's still about 'getting my way'.
Goshdarnit, he could be right.

I think I'm having a 'worth and value' moment......or at the very least, 'worth and value' in the worksite equally 'being effective'. If I get MY WAY, I'm 'effective' and 'good at my job'. If I DON'T get my way--I'm ineffective and I SUCK.

Now, in MY brain that makes sense.
Wisepersoninmylife points out that he ASKED G-d to remove my brain last week and apparently G-d's decided to let me run it til the wheels fell off.
Duh...LOL.........apparently!!

Okay, so I didn't get my way with the chief of police. Nor did I get my way with the county attorney. NOR did I get my way with the high school principal, the teacher on the unit, and the juvenile probation officer.
NOR do I 'get' how come I cannot, for the LIFE of me, get the staff to have the same work ethic I have which says 'show up and stay til the job is done.....cuz it's about 25 kiddo's lives'.
Ineffective or wanting my way...........yep......at least at this point I'm thinking it's both. LOL (this way I stay out of conflict with wisepersoninmylife--or so I delude myself into believing!)

He's saying it's about perseverance and sticktoittiveness........that I'm being effective even when I don't GET my way.......it's called planting seeds and doing the footwork.
"Keep doing right things for right motives, regardless of the results."
Uh huh...............I still call it being ineffective.
And I like my plan better.
Take 'em outside, put a finger into their chest, use the 'f' word multiple times and look menacing.

THAT worked!
THAT---was effective!!

I know, I know..........go to the corner!!
LOLOL