“It’s just business” is a ridiculous refrain. Every single aspect of business is for the human world.
So why is “it’s nothing personal, it’s just business” the jump-to thought when decisions are made that have collateral human damage?
Because no one knows what else to say when the axe comes.
Here are a few chants that will reattach the head and assert the soul.
- You are not your job
- You are not your boss’s job
- You are not the job you no longer have
- No one at the job knew you before they met you on the job
- You are not who they think you are
- You are not who the world imagines when it imagines a world without you
- Your life is not ending
- Your world is just starting to reveal itself
- Your world is bigger than you thought
- Your life does not have anything to do with the people who let you go
- You’re not the person they thought you were
- You’re more than you thought you were
- The world around you is bigger than you imagined
- It’s time the world see you for who you are, rather than for what you do
- There is nothing more satisfying than finding comfort in transition
- Transition has more to do with the flow of energy than it does the stoppage of power
- You’re much more productive when people tell you what to do
- You’re getting better at productivity without people telling you what to do
- You’re about to find an amazing opportunity
- You’re about to show yourself a whole new side of your personality
