You Make It Their Business
Wow! The drama post brought out some strong feeling/opinions in those who read it. Funny thing is, I just read about another example of it online. This time it was in the online business world and no fist fight broke out, but again, insults, attacks, name calling and your basic drama. However, one of the guys involved admitted he was wrong, admitted that he should have privately contacted the person he was upset with, and admitted that there are so many other things to do than be involved in drama. He also talked about the fact that if you stay away from the NEGATIVE and stay focused on the POSTIVE you'll have much greater returns.
You see, this is not only a lesson for your softball team. This is a lesson for life AND business.
I have one more thing to add to it. Often times people who DO bring their personal life into public areas end up saying something like, "This has nothing to do with you, you should keep your mouth shut and stay out of it."
Well, that's true. Your personal life isn't the business of your teammates....UNTIL YOU CHOOSE to bring it on to the field with you. At that point, YOU'VE made the conscious choice to make your personal business the business of everyone on the team because now your personal issues have invaded team time and space. So if you want everyone to "stay out of it" do NOT bring NEGATIVE opinions/actions/words of anyone onto the field with you. If you have a personal problem with your left fielder, keep it personal and keep it private. Then your SS or your P has no say in how you handle that issue.
However, IF you DECIDE to bring it up in ANY way shape or form during softball time, you've just made it the entire team's business. Again, I'll say it, personal drama has NO place on the softball field and you are not being the best softball player you can be if you bring it there. I'll explain why have such little tolerance for this in another blog post.
If you haven't read the original drama post and left your comments yet, I'd still like to hear from you. Or, if you have thoughts on what was said here, feel free to leave a comment on this post.
You see, this is not only a lesson for your softball team. This is a lesson for life AND business.
I have one more thing to add to it. Often times people who DO bring their personal life into public areas end up saying something like, "This has nothing to do with you, you should keep your mouth shut and stay out of it."
Well, that's true. Your personal life isn't the business of your teammates....UNTIL YOU CHOOSE to bring it on to the field with you. At that point, YOU'VE made the conscious choice to make your personal business the business of everyone on the team because now your personal issues have invaded team time and space. So if you want everyone to "stay out of it" do NOT bring NEGATIVE opinions/actions/words of anyone onto the field with you. If you have a personal problem with your left fielder, keep it personal and keep it private. Then your SS or your P has no say in how you handle that issue.
However, IF you DECIDE to bring it up in ANY way shape or form during softball time, you've just made it the entire team's business. Again, I'll say it, personal drama has NO place on the softball field and you are not being the best softball player you can be if you bring it there. I'll explain why have such little tolerance for this in another blog post.
If you haven't read the original drama post and left your comments yet, I'd still like to hear from you. Or, if you have thoughts on what was said here, feel free to leave a comment on this post.
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