I’m not one who makes resolutions. But I think I have one this year. It’s something I’ve had on my mind over the past few weeks. I’ve been thinking and observing others. I’ve decided I’m going to “live and let live”. We’ve all heard that statement but I’m going to describe what that means to me.

I’m going to stop asking questions like “why did you go this way?” when driving. We all know that question actually means, “I know a better way to go than this”. Who really cares? In life, I don’t want to be a know-it-all. So maybe you took the long way, life goes on.

I get so annoyed at work sometimes. Working in sales gives you a lot of in-site into what people are like. People will lie. People will talk like they know what they are saying, even when they have no clue what they are talking about. I’m not going to be naive or allow people to walk all over me but I’m not going to keep trying to catch people in the lie. People wait until the last minute. I get annoyed sometimes when people call me for a quote because their insurance will expire at midnight or because they are closing on a house tomorrow. I’m not going to continue to allow that to bother me. You want a quote? Great, I’ll be glad to work on that, whatever the reason. I’ll give you my advice and you can do what you want with it.

It all boils down to this, I’m going to keep my mouth shut more. I hate it, absolutely hate it, when people pull out in front of me in traffic. But getting upset about it doesn’t do anything except ruin my mood. I thought about that a lot while driving for over 24 hours to and from Tennessee last week. People in general are selfish and inconsiderate. Getting annoyed by it doesn’t change it. I can’t change others, I can only change myself and my own attitude. So  I will live and let live. You can pull out in front of me in traffic, run a red-light, change lanes in an intersection all day. It won’t change my life. I’ll do what I need to do to keep myself safe and get to my destination.

The last part of this is arguments. I don’t want to argue with anyone about anything, especially trivial things. People are different. They have different views and different methods. So as long as what you’re doing doesn’t hurt me or someone else, do it and do it however you want. I’m not going to tell you how I do it or try to explain why my way is easier/better/faster/etc.

So live and let live, that’s my new motto.