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Turn off the Siren and Forgive.

Monday Morning Momentum™ with David J. Pollay – October 13, 2008

Do you know that overwhelming feeling when a police siren goes off right behind you?  You immediately feel the pounding of your heart in your chest and throat.  You think, “What did I do?  Was I driving over the speed limit?  Did I go through a red light?  Was I swerving?  Did I cut someone off?”  Most of us know this experience.  And we are always relieved when it turns out that we are not the intended target of the police officer. 

Getting pulled over

Sixteen years ago I heard a siren blaring behind me … and it was for me!  I was in Merida, Mexico and I was being pulled over by a local police officer.  And I had no idea why.

My mom was in the front seat, and my dad in the back.  I had taken my parents to Mexicoon a dream vacation.  I wanted to show them Mexico’s ancient Mayan ruins and beautiful cities.  I wanted them to experience the delicious cuisine and the colorful culture.  And here we were on the side of the road watching a police officer approach our vehicle.

A harsh judgment

I rolled down my window when the police officer arrived at the side of our car.  He said in Spanish, “You will come to the police station.  You broke the law.”  I spoke Spanish, so I responded, “What did I do?”  He said, “You made a wrong turn.” 

I knew this was not good:  You never want a run-in with the police.  Mexicois a wonderful country, but its police forces in that era were feared because of widespread corruption.  How could a simple traffic mistake lead us to the inside of a police station?  It was not fair.  And I was worried. 

I pleaded with the officer, “I am so sorry.  I did not see a sign.  I’m showing my parents beautiful Mexico.  We’re visiting friends in this town.  Please excuse us.  It will not happen again.”

My parents were echoing my plea, “por favor senor, por favor senor.”  His stare was steady.  He did not move.  He was not budging.  “No, you will come with me,” he said. 

Making me pay

I made a mistake and this officer was going to make me pay.  His judgment was my jury, and the price to be paid was down at the station.  That is until two middle-aged women walking nearby took up our case.  They said, “How can you take a nice tourist and his parents to jail because of a minor and innocent mistake.”  The women continued, “Don’t give our country a bad name.  Be forgiving and let them go.”  He stared at the women as they spoke.  Then he turned his gaze on us.  And with the flip of his hand, he said, “Go.” 

In a release of intense emotion, we thanked the officer profusely.  We then put our hands together in a prayer-like fashion and said thank you to the kind women who helped us.

Have you been unfairly judged?

How many times in your life have you felt unfairly judged?  You did something unintentionally that was blown out of proportion.  Your mistake damned you to a judgment that you were a bad person:  You were viewed as insensitive, uncaring, and unkind.  And while you regretted whatever you had done, you felt violated because the judgment seemed so unbalanced:  Your good intentions, your kind heart, and your normally good behavior were not even being considered.  You felt like I did in my car when the police officer pulled me over and said, “You will come to the station.  You broke the law.”

This is how we feel when other people do not let our small infractions pass them by.  When they decide instead that we are bad people, we feel abused.

Make the world better … offer “real-time forgiveness™”

And this is what we do to others when we damn them for their fleeting mistakes, rather than letting them go with what I call “real-time forgiveness™.”  We make the world a better place when we forsake our judgments and afford others our forgiveness. 

This week

Observe yourself at home, at work, and in your community when people make “minor” mistakes.  Notice what you say about them to yourself and others.  Do you judge others the way you would like to be judged, or is your judgment too quick and too harsh? 

Do two things in particular this week.

(1)    Follow The Law of the Garbage Truck™ and let the things you cannot control pass you by.

(2)    Give the people you know a break and let their mistakes pass you by.  Focus on what’s good about them, rather than turn on your siren.

And pay attention this week to how you feel about yourself and others after you offer “real-time forgiveness™.”

Remember to let me know how it goes for you!

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Gratitude Friday: Thank you Bloggers Jeanette and Rose!

I want to say a special “thank you!” this week to some of the bloggers out there who are helping spread the Beware of Garbage Trucks!™ - The Law of the Garbage Truck™ message.  They understand the importance of the No Garbage Trucks!™ Mission.

We are so grateful to those who are spreading the message through their blogs.  Here are two other bloggers who posted Beware of Garbage Trucks!™ - The Law of the Garbage Truck™.  When they discovered that I am the author, they quickly connected their readers to my work.

Rev. Jeanette M. Pintar of Sir Froggie’s Positive News Network posted Beware of Garbage Trucks!™ - The Law of the Garbage Truck™ in a special edition of their E-Zine.  When she learned that I had written the article, she immediately credited me and put up a link to my blog.  You can find Jeanette and her colleagues at http://www.sfpnn.com/.  Thanks Jeanette!

You can find Rose at http://roseeliff.blogspot.com/.  She blogs about generosity, kindness, and love.  Rose shares some great messages.  She posted Beware of Garbage Trucks!™ - The Law of the Garbage Truck™, and was excited to learn that I am the author.  Thanks for helping spread the message Rose!

Join the Team!

I will continue to highlight the work of an active member of our No Garbage Trucks! community each week. I want to recognize everyone who is helping to spread the Beware of Garbage Trucks!™ - The Law of the Garbage Truck™ message.  Email me at david@themomentumproject.com or Chris at chris@bewareofgarbagetrucks.com if you know of more good folks sharing our message. 

And if you are interested in re-printing The Law of the Garbage Truck™, or one of my columns, let us know. 

Thanks for your continued support and involvement!

Enjoy your friends and family this weekend! 

See you back here in a couple days for Monday Morning Momentum™!

Best to you,

David
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The No Garbage Trucks!™ mission is only made possible with the help of active members of the No Garbage Trucks!™ community.  Together we are making the world a more beautiful place.  Thank you!

Monday Morning Momentum: Don’t Let Telemarketers Make You Mad

Monday Morning Momentum™ with David J. Pollay – October 6, 2008

Over the last few years I have heard more and more people complain about the telemarketing calls they receive at home, and now, increasingly on their cell phones.  I can understand why.  I don’t like my dinner interrupted either for a sales call, a marketing survey, or a political poll.  The challenge I’ve noticed, however, is how we respond to these calls.

“Sticking it” to telemarketers

I often hear people boast about how they handle telemarketers.  Each time they receive a call from a telemarketer, they shout: “Take me off your list!”  Or they put the phone up to a radio and crank up the volume to “give it back” to the representative calling them.  Or they say, “Give me your home phone number and I’ll call you!”  In each instance they are pleased that they stuck it to the telemarketer.

Remember who they are

There are two main problems with this approach.  First, telemarketers are moms, dads, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, students: They are anyone who needs that job.  And according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are more than 2.2 million customer service representatives, and over 350 thousand telemarketers in this country alone.  I know many of the people who work in these organizations, and I worked with them when I ran customer service centers; they’re good people.  It is not fair to vent our frustration on them; they’re just doing their job.

And we often forget that many of the telemarketers who call us are volunteers.  They are members of grassroots organizations that support our democracy.  They encourage us to get involved in important causes, and they push us to get out and vote.  Other people see it as their duty to make calls for their university, high school, non-profit, or local public radio and television stations.

Now, we still may not want to receive these calls, no matter what the cause.  So, what do we do?

How can we respond?

I asked a director of a telemarketing company what is a fair and respectful way of letting a telemarketer know that we are not interested.  Here was her advice:  “Honesty works best.  You can just say:  ‘I support the other candidate.  I do not support your cause. I already have your product.  I do not give money over the phone.’  And you can politely interrupt the agent if they start reading a script.  Say your few words, and then hang up the phone.  When they know that you are truly not interested – as opposed to saying you’re ‘busy’ – they will not waste their time calling you back.”

Here’s another approach.  Remember that most telemarketing companies use “automatic dialers” to serve up calls to a customer service agent.  You’ll find that there is a delay between when you say “hello” and when an agent is connected to you.  A simple way of avoiding the call is to hang up as soon as you hear the pause:  You’ll save yourself, and the agent, time and frustration.
 

Know where the power is

But what do we do if we really want to stop or reduce all these telemarketing calls?  Go where the power is.  Representatives in companies do not set policies and procedures, leaders do: Talk to them.  And if we want to limit the ability of telemarketers to do business, we should lobby our telecommunications providers, or advocate for change with our politicians.

Venting leads to more frustration

The second problem with venting our anger every time we receive a telemarketing call is that we are virtually guaranteeing ourselves a daily dose of frustration.  We are likely going to receive these calls for some time to come.  So, rather than get worked up each time we pick up the phone, we are better to let the telemarketers go on their way without conflict.  And then, with no hesitation, we can put our attention right back on what matters most to us in our lives.

This week

Take a new approach with telemarketers this week:  Let them pass by with your kindness.  If you do not want to speak with them, politely let the telemarketers go on their way without conflict.

When you let a telemarketer pass you by, notice how you lift a burden from two people:  You free yourself of negative emotion, and you give other people a break.  And you can feel good about that.

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Gratitude Friday: Thanks South Florida GIS Expo!

I want to say a special “thank you!” this week to all the participants of the 15th annual South Florida Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Expo!  It was such a pleasure to give the keynote address yesterday! 

I appreciated all the energy everyone had in the room!  It was great meeting all the people who do the important work in the GIS community.  Co-chairs, Heather Kostura, and Josie Rudd, led the Expo with help from a tremendous organizing team.  Thanks to Todd Remmel for being the first to introduce me to the GIS community.

You can find out more about my keynote at the GIS Expo here.

The highlight of the day for me was hearing over 300 leaders take the No Garbage Trucks!™ pledge in unison.  The GIS folks definitely understand the power of The Law of the Garbage Truck™.  Congratulations!  You are not Garbage Trucks!

I also want to thank David Rafaidus (with early assistance from Josie) for arranging to have a garbage truck on site!  Our camera crew shot some great video of people taking The No Garbage Trucks! Pledge.  We had fun!

Join the Team!

I will continue to highlight the work of an active member of our No Garbage Trucks! community each week. I want to recognize everyone who is helping to spread the Beware of Garbage Trucks!™ - The Law of the Garbage Truck™ message.  Email me at david@themomentumproject.com or Chris at chris@bewareofgarbagetrucks.com if you know of more good folks sharing our message. 

And if you are interested in re-printing The Law of the Garbage Truck™, or one of my columns, let us know. 

Thanks for your continued support and involvement!

Enjoy your friends and family this weekend!
 
See you back here in a couple days for Monday Morning Momentum™!

Best to you,

David

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The No Garbage Trucks!™ mission is only made possible with the help of active members of the No Garbage Trucks!™ community.  Together we are making the world a more beautiful place.  Thank you!

Is It A Beautiful Day in Your Life? What’s Your Criteria?

“Glorious” and “Beautiful”

My mom’s father would say this at the start of every day:  “It’s a glorious day!”  And when my father gets up in the morning and looks outside, he says, “It’s another beautiful day in South Florida.”  My grandfather and my father’s criteria for happiness at the beginning of each day are simple:  Just wake up and look outside – things are great. 

Unclear criteria?

Now, consider you’re up for a raise and you believe you deserve it.  You’re sitting with your boss as she is sharing her evaluation of your performance over the past year.  After reviewing your many accomplishments, she stops, looks at you and says, “I am not giving you a raise.  I am not happy with your performance.” 

And you say, “What?!!!  Why not!???  I accomplished a lot this year!” 

Your boss says, “I know.”

You say, “Then why aren’t you giving me a raise?!”

She says, “You didn’t do enough.”

How would you feel?

Now, how would that work for you?  I know the answer:  You would be furious!  It’s obvious what your issue would be with your boss.  Your boss is using some criteria that she cannot even explain.  How can you ever succeed if you don’t know what her secret criteria are?

Rigid criteria?

Let’s change up the example a little.  Pretend this time that you have a boss who has precise expectations of you.  He uses a 100 item evaluation for your performance.  And as he shares his evaluation of your work with you, he acknowledges your outstanding attitude, behaviors, and accomplishments. 

At the end of the review your boss says, “Nope.  You scored 96 out of 100.  No promotion.” 

You say, “What?!  After all I’ve done, how can you hold back my promotion because I missed 4 things out of 100?!  That’s ridiculous!”

And your boss says, “You might think so, but I expect more.”

Let me jump from this example to your own happiness.  Are you happy? 

Are you happy?

Now, if your answer is “yes,” are you really happy, or sort of happy?  And if I asked you these questions again in one year, how would you respond?  Happy?  Unhappy?  Sort of happy?  How will you know?  Your answer depends on the criteria that you use to judge your happiness.  The question is, “Do you know what your criteria are?”

This week

Don’t move!  Stop what you are doing!  Take two minutes only.  Just two minutes.  Write down your criteria for happiness right now.  Don’t pause to think if you have enough time to spare the two minutes.  Just go.  Be as fast as possible; write down whatever comes to mind.  Write down your happiness criteria now.  Start writing on the count of three:  1 – 2 – 3 – Go! 

The first step

You just took a big step forward on your journey to increasing your happiness.  The clearer your criteria are, the better your chances of achieving the happy life you want to live. 

Next steps

Over the course of the next two posts, we’ll explore how you can improve your life with criteria that serve you well. 

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Monday Morning Momentum™ with David J. Pollay – September 29, 2008

Gratitude Friday: Thanks Abbie! Thanks Meg!

The Beware of Garbage Trucks!™ - The Law of the Garbage Truck™ mission is only possible with the help of active members of the No Garbage Trucks!™ community.  Together we are making the world a more beautiful place!

A Special Thanks This Week

I want to say a special “thank you!” this week to some of the bloggers out there who are helping spread the Beware of Garbage Trucks!™ - The Law of the Garbage Truck™ message.  They understand the importance of letting Garbage Trucks pass us by.

I am always so thankful when someone takes the time to discover that I am the author of Beware of Garbage Trucks!™ - The Law of the Garbage Truck™.  Abbie at A Glimpse of the Girl Next Door did this recently.  She got a lot out of the message, saying that she “even brought it up in a conversation at work when someone was upset about being treated negatively during an errand.”  So, she did a quick search and found the original version and linked to it.  Thanks Abbie!  You can find her here.

I am also thankful when people link to my sites after finding out that I am the author of The Law of the Garbage Truck™.  Meg received it in an email, and posted it to her blog.  When a commenter pointed her in my direction, Meg immediately posted a link to my blog.  Thanks Meg!  You can find her blog, Life at Lonesome Pine, here.

Join the Team!

I will continue to highlight the work of an active member of our No Garbage Trucks! community each week. I want to recognize all the good folks who are helping spread the Beware of Garbage Trucks!™ - The Law of the Garbage Truck™ message.  Email me at david@themomentumproject.com or Chris at chris@bewareofgarbagetrucks.com if you know of more good folks sharing our message.

And if you are interested in re-printing one of my columns, let us know.
 
Thanks for your continued support and involvement!

Have A Wonderful Weekend!

Enjoy your friends and family this weekend!

See you back here in a couple days for Monday Morning Momentum™!

Best to you,

David

Gratitude and Giving Will Lead to Your Success – Part II ©

Monday Morning Momentum™ with David J. Pollay – September 22, 2008

See last week’s post for “the first answer,” and a survey of the research on the power of gratitude.  Today, I share the second answer to your success.

So what’s the best way to achieve your life goals?  Here’s the second answer. 

Helping others

Think about who else could help you achieve the success you desire.  Now, through a lens of gratitude, think about how you could repay these people in advance for their support.  What could you do for them now?  How could you help them in some way? 

Your commitment to helping them will demonstrate two things:  You care about what they care about, and you appreciate the role they could play in your life. 

This week

So, let’s think about the people you want to bring into your life.  Follow these three steps:

(1) Who are the people that could make a difference in your life – the people who could really help you if you could make a connection with them?  Write their names down now and make a note of what they could do for you. 

(2) Now, here’s the key:  Beside each name on your list, write down what you could do for them that would be valuable or helpful.  What could you do that would be meaningful?

(3) Now, grab your planner and write what you’re going to do for whom and when.  Building relationships takes time.  Start reaching out to people now; offer your thoughtful assistance.

Stand out

When you do, you will stand out as a giver, and leave the takers of the world standing in line.  Your new contacts will be grateful to you.  And we know what happens when people feel gratitude.

Gratitude and giving will lead to your success. 

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Gratitude Friday: Thank you Bloggers Temi, Hombidai, and Jo!

I want to say a special “thank you!” this week to some of the bloggers out there who are helping spread the Beware of Garbage Trucks!™ - The Law of the Garbage Truck™ message.  They understand the importance of the No Garbage Trucks! Mission.

Temi’s blog has the distinction of being one of the first blogs to introduce Beware of Garbage Trucks!™ - The Law of the Garbage Truck™ to her community and attribute it to me.  My original article was sent to her in an email, and she posted it.  As soon as she found out that the story was part of a larger mission, she highlighted my work.  I am grateful.  You can find Temi at: http://ttoriola.blogspot.com/.

We are so grateful to those who are spreading the message through their blogs.  Here are two other bloggers who posted Beware of Garbage Trucks!™ - The Law of the Garbage Truck™.  When they discovered that I am the author, they quickly connected their readers to my work.

Hombidai is “The Rambler.” He blogs about everything he is passionate about.  He immediately recognized the value of the message presented in Beware of Garbage Trucks!™ - The Law of the Garbage Truck™.  Please visit him at http://potizukan.blogspot.com/.

As soon as Jo learned that Beware of Garbage Trucks!™ - The Law of the Garbage Truck™ is part of a global movement she posted information to connect all her readers to our site.  We appreciate her support!  You can read her kind piece here: http://jonjdsbitsandpieces.blogspot.com/2008/08/author-unknown.html. 

Join the Team!

I will continue to highlight the work of an active member of our No Garbage Trucks! community each week. I want to recognize everyone who is helping to spread the Beware of Garbage Trucks!™ - The Law of the Garbage Truck™ message.  Email me at david@themomentumproject.com or Chris at chris@bewareofgarbagetrucks.com if you know of more good folks sharing our message.
 
And if you are interested in re-printing The Law of the Garbage Truck™, or one of my columns, let us know.
 
Thanks for your continued support and involvement!

Enjoy your friends and family this weekend!

See you back here in a couple days for Monday Morning Momentum™!

Best to you,

David
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The No Garbage Trucks!™ mission is only made possible with the help of active members of the No Garbage Trucks!™ community.  Together we are making the world a more beautiful place.  Thank you!

Monday Morning Momentum™: Gratitude and Giving Will Lead to Your Success – Part I

Monday Morning Momentum™ with David J. Pollay – September 15, 2008

Think about it:  What are some of your life’s achievements?  It’s okay.  No one’s watching.  Go ahead.  What accomplishments make you proud of yourself?

Your achievements

Now ask yourself, how many of your life accomplishments did you achieve completely on your own?  Let me answer that question for you.  The answer is “none.”  Our successes always come with help.

So, answer this question, “Who were the people who contributed to each of your successes?”  Pause to think about these people. 

Now, I’ll bet you’re feeling a bit of gratitude right now.  You have just reminded yourself how important others have been to you in your life.  You have not traveled alone. 

Now, most of us feel some amount of stress when we think about what it will take to achieve our dreams.  We think, “How in the world are we going to get from where we are to where we hope to be?”  Luckily, the answer is “not alone.”  Other people will help us.

The first answer

So, what’s the best way to achieve your life goals?  Here’s the first answer.  Look to the people who have already helped you.  Reach out to them.  Tell them why they are important to you and how they helped you succeed in the past.  Let these people know how valuable they are to you.  If you feel that you’ve thanked someone before, consider doing it again in an even more meaningful way.  Keep these people in your corner. 

University of Michigan psychologist Christopher Peterson wrote in his book, A Primer in Positive Psychology, “In our experience with many dozens of gratitude letters … they ‘work’ 100% of the time in the sense that the recipient is moved, often to tears, and the sender is gratified as well.”

The power of gratitude

Gratitude researcher Robert Emmons recently reviewed the growing evidence that feelings of gratitude improve the quality of our lives.  In one study he found that people who “wrote up to five things for which they were grateful or thankful” on a weekly basis “exercised more regularly, reported fewer physical symptoms, felt better about their lives as a whole, and were more optimistic about the upcoming week.” 

Positive Psychology co-founder Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania, and his colleagues also discovered that when people took a few minutes each evening to write down “three good things” that happened to them during the day, their happiness increased and their depressive symptoms decreased.

Emmons found in another study that people who feel gratitude are more likely to help others.  Emmons wrote, “Gratitude leads not only to feeling good, but also to doing good.” 

This week

There are three parts to your Monday Morning Momentum™ mission this week.  Here they are.

(1)   Write down two to three of your greatest achievements.  Briefly describe what you accomplished.

(2)   Think about the principal people who helped you on your path to these achievements.  Take a few minutes to deeply reflect:  Who made your successes possible?  You may find that some non-obvious names will surface. More people help us in life than we often realize.

(3)   Have you properly thanked all of these people?  If you have not, consider reaching out to them over the next few months in a way that would be meaningful to them.

Join us next week for Part II of your success mission.  It will make a huge difference in your life.

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Gratitude Friday: Thanks KBTVonline and Kate Bohner

I want to thank Kate Bohner, writer, producer, and television host of KBTVonline. 

I met Kate last year through one of her good friends, Pam.  Pam had attended one of my workshops and became a big supporter of my work.  Kate was the creator and host of the widely watched Google/YouTube show, The Watercooler Diaries.  Kate attended and filmed one of my programs and did a two part interview on my work for her Entrepreneur of the Month series.  You can find the two four-minute interviews here:
 
http://www.bewareofgarbagetrucks.com/about.htm

The second interview includes my telling an abbreviated version of the Garbage Truck experience I had in New York City eighteen years ago.  Kate is a big proponent of the power of The Law of the Garbage Truck™ and has helped spread the message around the world.  Thanks Kate!

Earlier this year KBTVonline launched a new program called Profiles in Courage.  Kate is the creator and host of this series.  I call her a “renaissance journalist” because of the breadth of topics she covers in her work.  Here’s how Kate describes Profiles in Courage:

Profiles in Courage, a KBTVonline Productions web series, puts faces on people who are making a difference. So often we look at the despair and suffering and great need all around us, and—overwhelmed—we look away, feeling helpless, powerless to help change "the way things are." More often, busy in our own lives, we are not even aware of the terrible things happening to the people who share our world -- half of the people in our world ... live on less than one dollar a day. Through this series of profiles, we hope to raise awareness of the great need for people to become involved in changing their world.

You can subscribe to her shows on YouTube or go directly to her site to watch them.

www.kbtvonline.com

Kate is immensely talented; you can read her bio here.  She’ll tell you that her passion is writing and reporting.  Kate has been published in George Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire and several other publications. In 1996, Kate co-authored Donald Trump’s, Trump: the Art of the Comeback, which hit both the New York Times’ and the Wall Street Journal’s best-seller lists.

We send our best out to Kate!

Join the Team!

I will continue to highlight the work of an active member of our No Garbage Trucks! community each week. I want to recognize everyone who is helping to spread the Beware of Garbage Trucks!™ - The Law of the Garbage Truck™ message.  Email me at david@themomentumproject.com or Chris at chris@bewareofgarbagetrucks.com if you know of more good folks sharing our message. 

And if you are interested in re-printing The Law of the Garbage Truck™, or one of my columns, let us know. 

Thanks for your continued support and involvement!

Enjoy your friends and family this weekend! 

See you back here in a couple days for Monday Morning Momentum™!

Best to you,

David

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The No Garbage Trucks!™ mission is only made possible with the help of active members of the No Garbage Trucks!™ community.  Together we are making the world a more beautiful place.  Thank you!