Not taken seriously

Back several years ago, I was hired to work at a company. I was half the age of everyone there. I had the feeling others were thinking, “Oh, this person is really young.” And they wouldn't take me seriously. Whenever I made a suggestion, it was like “Oh, that’s very nice, we’ll take it into consideration.” And I would sit there and wait and wait. But my idea would never come up again.

If the manager would present the same idea I had, it would be well received, but the fact that I was young disqualified what I had to say. It was like I had to become older to be taken seriously. So that was a little frustrating.

Eventually, though, I started asking myself, “What is my true job description?” I realized that my real job was to express the qualities of God. And that by expressing them, I could never come into conflict with anyone. I'd be able to work in harmony with everyone.

I knew I had to set aside willpower that tried to force things to go my way. Once I let go of that, I realized that if it's a really good idea, one God gave you, the same idea can come to anyone. It doesn't matter who comes up with ideas, as long as they're acted on. Praying and reasoning in this way, I discovered that many of the ideas I had presented, and that were completely blown off, all of a sudden started to come about. This happened through no action of my own.

The situation improved. One day, the department manager spent some time in our little section. We talked about ideas for the coming year. I presented several ideas on products that this company could launch. The manager wrote down all of my ideas. A couple of months later, an item that we had talked about was produced.

Since then, I haven't had a problem with presenting ideas. :)

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