Faith

Last week, my phone stopped receiving a signal. In the house, I usually get 4 bars, but suddenly, I had a half a bar if I was lucky and mostly ‘searching’. After a few hours – when it started to be a problem – I called my service provider to see if there was a tower down or some other problem they were working on.

Apparently not. ‘Take the SIM card out’, she said, ‘Rub it on your sleeve, put it back, turn the phone off and on and it’ll work again’. ‘RUBBISH!’ , I thought. ‘No way that’s going to work!!’ Since I didn’t have any other ideas though, I tried it. And, completely illogically to my mind, it worked.

Re-listening to some of our podcasts, and reading the comments we get after them, reminded me of this. Sometimes, the answer isn’t something logical, or in the case of my phone, it’s something so technical, I don’t know it and can’t understand it. Sometimes, we just have to go faith that it might work. If you have a problem, try a solution and it works 50% of the time, are you better off? Of course. And, trying and failing, as Edison taught us, teaches one more way that doesn’t work, and gets us closer to a solution.

Of course, we believe that 100% of Manager Tools and Career Tools advice will work, you’ve just got to have faith and try it.