Would you tell me?

Aug 19, 2009 Blog
Posted by Shane Hatton

So last week i was away at a 4 day intensive as part of my Masters in Leadership degree im currently undertaking through Alphacrucis College. What a week!! I only have a finite amount of brain space and memory so as i was learning more about Identifying and Developing leaders i was pretty much pushing out all other beautiful memories at the same time..i had to come home and go through my photo album from my wedding day so i could remember what it was like….but then i lost all of the information from the first day of my intensive…oh well!

Not sure why i was going down that road now…

Oh yeah…One of the cool things about the intensives, is lunchtime (how intelligent do i sound right now). Every day we were exposed to a gourmet food substance of some sort…mostly the food was green…not in a moldy kind of way…but a…ummmm…healthy kind?? So i get home from one of my intensives and i walk through the whole hotel…speak to the guy at reception to tell him i didnt get my breakfast i ordered and finally head back to my room to relax. Its always an awkward feeling when you look in the mirror and see what i saw. A giant piece of that “healthy stuff” stuck right between my front teeth…but it was night time….and i ate that food at lunch time??? I had gone through half a day with green food in my teeth and nobody said a word!! Argh!!!!!

What’s the moral to this story you ask? Friend’s tell people if there is something going on that isn’t normal. If there is something going on in a friends life that isn’t right are you willing to tell them? It may risk embarrassing the person in front of you, but you can save them from humiliation in front of other people. Have you surrounded yourself with people who are willing to challenge you when it comes to the way you live or are they happy to have you walking around with ‘food in your teeth’? Don’t be the person who points out food in everyone else’s teeth to other people because chances are there is some in yours too! Develop relationships that are focused on honesty, transparency and accountability. It might hurt to be told sometimes, but in the long run it will save you from utter humiliation!

Please tell me if i have food in my teeth! 

SH