When bad things or bad luck happens, it seems like a negative event in our lives, setting us back. But if we could see it from the altitude of time and comprehend the continuum of our larger journey, it will be a mere stepping stone to where we are going.
Progress is not a straight line.
What was the latest setback or negative event in your life? How will it be a necessary or helpful point on the path to where you are going?
When your swimming in the ocean and you accidentally cut yourself on a reef, you learn real quickly how close the bottom(ocean floor) really is. At that point your realize it’s time to take a deeper look into where you really are. I thought I was fine and I’m safe seas but when you touch a piece of the bottom you learn to reevaluate and to go back to the drawing board about yourself and your business.
Taking over production was something I was hired for 6 years ago. I was told for years that I couldn’t get it done and I was moved to other departments where I was able to help each team grow. This made me feel good, but every time I got traction, another department would have problems. So someone was given my role and I was put into that department to grow it. Eventually that department came back with vengeance! and would succeed. This has happened for the last 5 years. Every year someone would say, “Dustin just wasn’t meant for production”. Well as I am growing, I try to take people with me, I try to elevate everyone around me and make them responsible for themselves and for their own “home” so to speak.
4 1/2 months ago I was put into a new role, Running all of operations (production/service). This was a big struggle because I wanted to do well and make many changes as fast as possible. We had to, get rid of some people, move some positions around and mainly, get everyone out of the department that didn’t belong and start making people hold themselves accountable. I now have a growing production department where people are happy. I looked at the numbers to see where we are,… 78% ahead of where we were last year. This is a good feeling. Because for a long time someone said I couldn’t. Now I know there is nothing holding me back.