Mutts as teachers

  Short one this time gang.  Can't and don't really want to get into much detail, but I wanted to share something I learned yesterday.
  Worked another 32 hour shift yesterday.  Started at 23:00 Sunday, left work at 07:20 this morning.  Quiet night on Sunday.  However, IMMEDIATELY Monday morning the mutts started getting me down, and I let them.  Snide little comments really get under my skin.  Started getting myself into a really piss poor mood, which doesn't do anyone any good.  Went outside to blow off a little steam, and be alone for a few minutes, and got to thinking.  Instead of today being a dog pile on Lucky day, like the Mutts wanted to do, I turned it into a learning session.  A learning session for ME.
  For the rest of the shift, I looked at things a little differently.  Instead of listening to people bitch at me and blame me for things I have no control over, and other things that happened months ago, I started thinking like a Warrior and used it to learn what NOT to do, when and if, I'm in their position.
  Ya know what?  It worked!  I was in a much better mood.  Even when I was getting yelled at, I pictured myself in "This is what NOT to do when you lead these guys later in life, school."  It was a HUGE lesson, one I will never forget.  I know how I felt being berated, and that is so not the way to motivate, lead, or influence others.  I heard what was being said, but I wasn't listening, and I couldn't care less about the topic, BECAUSE of the way it was being dealt to me.  So, I added to my "What NOT to do" list, cuz it for damn sure wasn't working on me.  Once I'm on the other side of that conversation, I'll remember that, and will not treat my guys that way.

  Yeah, the Mutts can and will get you down.  That's what they do, their sole purpose in life is to make us miserable.  Little joke in the aviation world about the FAA's slogan being "WE'RE not happy until YOU'RE not happy" can be applied here.  But when they do start, remember there IS something you can learn from them.  It's all perception.  Twist it around to the positive Warrior way of thinking, and you're in a much better mood, and ya may have just learned something in the process.

  Stay safe out there gang!  It's a jungle!