Here’s a great quote for Groundhog Day.
Botches can send us underground, hiding out with the hogs…keeping us from shining the way that we could. It could be a botched presentation. Or conversation. Or relationship. Or deadline. Or a missed goal. Or wayward resolution.
Some people worry more than they should.
Some people should worry more than they do. Like Phil, the weatherman (played by Bill Murray) in Groundhog Day during which the day repeats over and over until he “gets it right”. Grab some popcorn and watch this 4 1/2 minute clip.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your perspective), we don’t have the advantage of re-doing our days the way Phil did. But like the above quote says, we can work for a new ending.
Here are 5 questions to ask yourself or your team. In fact, it could make a nice meeting to show the video clip from above and then use the questions for discussion. And of course, popcorn is always a good idea, especially since today is the last day of National Popcorn Month!
1. Are there any presentations or client meetings (from the past) that you wish you could do over?
2. What do you wish you had done differently?
3. What might you do with or for that client now so that there is a different ending?
4. What might you do in future situations for a more immediate different ending?
5. What’s the next step?
In addition, check out the article written by Kim Painter (January 26, 2011, USA Today). In her article, Ms. Painter gives some how-to’s for several situations. Some business related. Some not. Five ways we can “make like that reformed weatherman and get a fresh start in February, or anytime”. They include suggestions on how to:
1. Re-kindle a friendship gone sour
2. Do over a disastrous date
3. Re-launch a diet
4. Hit re-wind on a poorly received presentation
5. Re-open a lost argument
Here is a link to Ms. Painter’s: “It doesn’t take a time machine to try again”
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