Dialogue
Friend:Â “How’s it going?”
Me:Â “Very good.”
Friend:Â “Really?”
Me:Â “Yeah…really.”
Friend:Â “I didn’t expect that answer.”
Me:Â “Really?”
Friend:Â “Yeah…really.”
When I think about a dialogue like this, I wonder what I say that causes my friends to expect something other than “very good”.
Business can certainly beat you down.
In fact, in many cases, business can feel like you need a long time to recover after one of those very bruising meetings.
But how we respond to the sometimes brutal combat in business is really a choice on our part.
Obviously, I’ve responded very differently than I should in the past.
Otherwise, I wouldn’t get the “really?”
I need to work on that.
“Very good” should be the answer all the time.
Yeah…really.