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Worry
Abdullah Al Qamzi
Abdulla.AlQamzi@emaratalyoum.com
05 September 2022
The CEO of a soap manufacturer sat in the meeting room, waiting for the marketing team to attend.
They were to discuss the reasons for the failure of their new product in the market.
It was not a productive meeting, and everyone blames the other.
The meeting ended without result, and the manager came out feeling very worried, as one of the goals he had set was not achieved, and therefore they will not reach the expected profit rate by the end of the year, as they had set in the strategic plan.
He drove home not knowing how he would admit failure to the company's board of directors after only two weeks.
He entered his house and saw his two sons playing ball.
The younger son asked his father for permission to play in the yard of the house, but the father refused and said not now.
We eat lunch first.
The man entered the bathroom and when he came out he went to the dining room and found no one.
He is very upset, especially as he is looking for justifications for the failure of the new soap to explain it to the board of directors.
The man went to the hall to summon his children to the dining room, and found the door to the hall leading to the outside not closed tightly, which means that his two sons went out to play in the courtyard.
Furious, he went into the yard and went around the house twice, finding no one.
He went crazy and went out of the house into the street and found no one.
He came home and started shouting the names of his two sons, and his wife heard him and said they were with her in the bedroom.
He entered upon them and brought them out to play in the yard of the house.
His wife said they had not gone out, they had been here since I entered the house.
The man said, “They went out because the door to the hall was a bit open, so his wife said I opened it and I could not close it well because my mother called me.”
The wife said: Calm down. Why are you angry about something they didn't do in the first place?
While eating the soup was very hot.
Out of his anxiety, he put the spoon in his mouth without feeling and in pain from the intense heat and exploded in his wife and accused her of exaggerating in heating the food.
Two weeks later, when the annual report was presented to the company's board of directors, the CEO entered the meeting room nervous, as he had not slept the night before because he was about to admit the failure of the new soap.
The director found all the members smiling in his face, and the chairman of the council got up from his seat and patted the director's shoulder, saying: Well done launching the new product, I liked it very much.
The manager was astonished and said but the marketing plan didn't work as it should.
The president said it doesn't matter, the product is excellent and of high quality and we all liked it in the council.
As for the marketing plan, you can reset it.
lesson
Before making the presentation, the manager recalled how anxious he had been two weeks before and how he had scolded his two sons just for imagining them going out into the yard, and how he had become unjustifiably angry at his wife.
Worrying and over thinking about something creates imaginary problems that are not in front of you.
What you may see as a failure is a partial success in the eyes of others.
Anxiety breeds obsessiveness, which is a mistrust of God.
So seek refuge in God from him, for it will only increase you anxiety and worries.
Worrying and over thinking about something creates imaginary problems that are not in front of you.
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