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The irony. A lesson learned. At work today I realised that my strenuous efforts to impress and win the professional trust of other people can actually cause them to distrust me. My self-confidence and surety ("trust me, let me show you I'm right... no really, I demand you to let me prove it") can come across as undermining and disrespectful. Seems obvious really doesn't it? God only knows how I got the idea that I could force someone to trust me. On the bright side, my brother Warwick trusts me enough to have asked me to be the godfather of hismy niece/nephew. I'm thrilled.

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And your sister in law does too!

  • By Jo (not verified) at Oct 11 2004 - 10:32
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mmm... an interesting twist: godfather of your brother's neice/nephew.. ;)
Congrats anyway! (And have you sorted out the ocntract with God yet?)

  • By Sharon (not verified) at Oct 12 2004 - 05:25
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oops! I meant "contract with God" :)

  • By Sharon (not verified) at Oct 12 2004 - 05:27
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Man... I've mixed this up before... Thanks Sharon, Jo just pointed my mistake out to me too. I don't even want to think about why I might be mixing these terms up!

  • By maestro (not verified) at Oct 12 2004 - 10:04
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Hopefully it was a Freudian slip and there is hope that soon there will be more little Leicester babies.

  • By Jo (not verified) at Oct 12 2004 - 10:13
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