Personal Narrative: A Different Kind Of Change

To be completely honest I am not one that likes change, deals with change well or have I ever welcomed any kind of change with open arms. I like things the way they are, my moto is “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.” To me these are words to live by. Some people call me boring, I say I just know what I like and see no need for changing anything. However, that person is no longer me that all changed about 5 years ago, and I am glad it did. It was a rather hard change, but one I needed to make. I never saw myself or would consider me as a confrontational person, a mean person or a bully. I just assumed I knew what I wanted, and was stern with what I wanted and knew how to get it. Some would call this stubborn, I called it determined. The day I realized I needed to change the way I deal with other people, was actually life changing for me.
I was at work one day, I was completely stressed out and upset over some issues I was having with some of my employees. I was constantly on the phone with at least one of them, arguing over their hours not filled out correctly on timesheets, not turning in receipts on time or at all, ordering materials and tools that were not approved, and the list goes …show more content…
I explained what I needed from them and why. I then asked them what all they needed in order to make it all happen. After about an hour and a long list of things to change or add to the paperwork, we had come to the conclusion that some of the paper work they had to do make no sense to them or were way to time consuming for them to do with all of their other work they needed to get done. And to this day I remember that no matter how much some things make sense to me and how hard I work and take pride in my work, not everyone else around me feels the same. It has honestly allowed me to not get as upset and stressed out as I use to, it has made me realize I need to work with others on their level to achieve what needs to be