I caught myself doing something big time over the last few weeks and for once, I’m proud to say . . . I did something about it!
I caught myself getting way too comfy with nice, safe email relationships.
And its real cool too, because the world and I have seemed to have reached an unspoken understanding that its all good.
We justify it by thinking about how busy everyone is, how much easier it is to shoot a quick email and maybe, just maybe we’re very astute and have flagged this as just the new normal!
In my case, I have the ultimate excuse (don’t we all) I’m knee deep in redesigning a training program for my company and I can’t lose momentum.
Yep . . . I suck!
A few weeks ago, I caught myself red freakin handed (and upgrade from red handed) when I was clinging to my email relationships. So I did the unthinkable.
I picked up the phone and engaged in the ancient art of conversation and it blew everyone’s mind . . .
Because who the hell answers an email with a phone call?
Answer . . . Me!
Granted, I couldn’t do this with every email, but I won’t lie, I was a phone dialing, phone conversating mofo.
Makes me want to change the lyrics to that Katy Perry song to “I dialed a phone and I liked it”!
And I didn’t leave the conversations empty handed . . . No Sir!
I had a chance to reconnect with our sales force, talk about issues, challenges and even bounce around ideas for the new sales training program.
I wouldn’t have gotten that from email.
Probably because we’re all way to engrossed in “on the fly” communication!
So here’s the deal. I love email and I need email, but at times it becomes a poor excuse for a relationship.
Homework: Blow someone’s mind today and reach out and freakin touch someone.
Class dismissed . . . I have an email to send 
