Putting things into Perspective

I was listening to the Adam Corolla Show this morning on the radio and they were taking callers who seemingly had extraordinary problems and put them into perspective for them. I constantly have to remind myself daily to put things into perspective.

Things can get out of hand so quickly and all perspective is lost. For instance, One of my co-workers had a project that was due to deliver last Friday, yet when he came in this morning to the office, he found out that the project didn't deliver on Friday but was delivering today due to challenges that happened that was out of his control.

I know it is never good to miss a delivery date and we always strive to deliver earlier than expected if possible. In actuality, the delivery location was wrong from the beginning given to him by his customer. When he called to let his customer know this, immediately the world was coming to an end. You might as well close the door and go home. The day was done and the customer lost everything that meant anything to them. Did anyone lose their job over the project showing up a day late? Did someone get hurt or possibly maimed when the truck didn't get there on Friday?

I understand that the end result wasn't what the customer was expecting and we would never purposely deliver the job late if there had been an agreement with our customer beforehand to deliver it on a certain date. But stuff happens. We have to get over it and move one. Think about the next step or how this might not happen again. It's a good thing it wasn't two days or possibly, (don't even think about it) three days late! My God, what would happen then? The Apocalypse? Maybe. . .maybe we should put things in perspective and think about the bigger picture sometimes.

As a society we should demand excellence however when we are sidled with less, we should adapt and make due because when you think about it, there are a lot of things far worse than whatever daily problems we face.