feel the fear and do it anyway

I’ve been offered a 3 month temporary promotion at work and although I’ve said recently that I wanted to be considered for this, now that I have to give them an answer tomorrow, the butterflies have come out and the doubts over whether I will be up to it are flying about in my head.

There’s one person in particular (at “shop floor” level) who I suspect will try to rock the boat and give me a lot of verbal diarrhoea, but if I can handle him and ignore his comments, I can handle anyone! And why should I let him ruin it for me? I won’t let him!

The office side of things hold no fear for me, people can check that what I’m doing is right. It’s away from the office and making potentially life-or-death decisions which I’m starting to get nervous about.

I think that is probably a good thing though, a happy-go-lucky attitude wouldn’t go down well with those I was managing or the managers above me.

I have to agree to this temporary promotion and deal with the fear.

(I’m shaking my head at myself because even now, I’m reluctant to click “Save” and commit this entry to the screen!)

I volunteered to take the position of “M” club manager this week at work and was voted in unanimously. My colleagues obviously felt I could do the job and make a good go of it, and I know I can too.

I’m reminded of a quote I saw recently on 43T – “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” Booker T. Washington

The hardest part was overcoming that obstacle in my mind. That isn’t to kid myself that this job will be easy, but to me, I’ve done the hardest bit, no matter what problems arise relating to the position in the future!

I need to read and devour the book, and do the things it says, in order to be the person I want to be, and know I can be.