ARE YOU A SLACKARD?
For all you Type-A personalities, I have an Underachievers Club you can join for free. Just raise your hand halfway and repeat after me, my dear Overachievers:
THE UNDERACHIEVER’S CREED
I’ll do the worst I can….
I will get paid more for doing less….
I won’t think about work, once I leave the doors of the building.…
I won’t take any work home….
I won’t read e-mail from home….
I will work my eight hours and go home….
I will take extended lunches….
I’ll blame something for why I can’t do what I’ve promised to do….
I won’t complete my action items….
I will get others to do my work when I can….
I will never volunteer and I will be grumpy….
I will leave all stones unturned….
I will dial down my work ethic….
I’ll call in sick when I’m not….
I will take very long breaks….
I’ll do the worst I can….
THE UNDERACHIEVERS’ CLUB
So do you want to be a member of The Underachievers Club? If you’re an Empathizer-type communicator, pass this along to a friend who’s doing the work others slide out of. If you’re an Instigator-type communicator, pass this along to make a co-worker paranoid. You, too, can fail to pay your dues and not show up when people are counting on you.
So, promise, to do the worst you can today instead of your best.
BUSHED? When you are totally exhausted, you often say you are bushed. This word originated with Dutch settlers, who termed the forests and woods they had to clear bos, which was modified by the English to bush. Clearing away dense forests and thickets was hard work, and after a hard day’s work of carving out trails and cutting trees for log homes, the settlers would declare with a sigh, “I’m bushed….” Today, bushed is used to express exhaustion from any physical activity.
ABOUT “TALK DOC” DENNIS E. O’GRADY, PSY.D.
Dr. Dennis O’Grady is the new Talk Doc in town, a corporate consultant, team trainer, and the insightful, original developer and researcher of the Talk to Me© positive and effective communication system. T2Me has been successfully implemented in multi-generational family companies and couples communication training.