Forgiveness…
Business can be highly competitive, highly charged. I feel an entrepreneur has a and founder of a business comes in with a different set of emotions than a hired CEO. I feel it is my time, my money that’s on the line–if I fail it’s my family’s well being that is affected.
In the normal course of business, emotions can run high. People will steal from you (sorry haven’t found a business person who this hasn’t happened to yet). Competitors will use unfair tactics. Deals won’t be honored.
The mantra for some is “Always remember, never forgive.”
A good friend has been challenging me to forgive. To be honest, I’m struggling with it. I don’t quite understand what forgiveness means at a deep level. I don’t understand the process of forgiveness. I do understand that it is very healthy for me to forgive. The energy that anger, and the feeling of being wronged, takes up is a waste. It doesn’t cause any positive change in my life.
“It doesn’t do you any good to hate somebody for whatever they have done to you, because all it does is eat you up. And in the end, what does it do for you? Absolutely nothing.” Bryon and Darla Dickson
Bryon and Darla Dickson chose to forgive the killer of their son Pennsylvania Bryon Dickson. A challenge greater than most of us will ever face. Read about why the chose to forgive Eric Frein.
It is a challenge to forgive the great and small wrongs that are part of entrepreneurial life. Perhaps its something we can work on together.