Where am I…
Working away. staying in a four star hotel in the North West, as I have been midweek for the best part of a year. Its a decent hotel and the team stay here regularly. If you have to be away from home its nice to be in the same place. I have been upgraded to a family size room for the week 🙂
What am I striving towards and how is it going…
Weight loss! I’ve been on the keto diet for 15 days now. Am definitely in ketosis and trying to not drink midweek. appetite is under control now I am in ketosis, now staying hydrated is the priority to stave off symptoms of keto flu.
what have you learned today…
I was asked by a client if it was possible to complete two weeks work of work in under a week. They explained that there was a delay in construction but if our team could complete our works in under a week the client could still hit his deadline.
This wasn’t possible but, I was sympathetic and assured them that we would do our best, but realistically suggested that they push back the deadline to allow my team the required amount of time to complete our works. Best to do this now whilst there was still time without cancelling at the last minute.
This made the client very uncomfortable, and he was reluctant to accept my advice on the matter. Instead they came back three of four times in the same afternoon, panicked, and asked the same question again hoping I would give a different answer. Which I did not.
They asked once again this morning in front of a colleague – and my colleague said that we might (might) be able to get done within the week..
The delighted client beamed, grasping onto this throw away comment from my colleague as gospel and even shook his hand. then he looked at me and said “that’s what I want to hear”
What I have learned today is, people would prefer to hear what they want to hear in the moment, only to be disappointed later on, rather than accept a disappointing truth.
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