Are you judging your peers? - Baxter Cribbs

Are you judging your peers?

 

Have you done your American duty to sit in on acourt_gavel jury to judge one of your own peers?

After more than half a century I had my first opportunity to go be in line to be chosen for a junior. There were more than one hundred of us gathered there. All the chairs were filled and we were lined down the wall for this one criminal trial event.

The court room is huge and impressive. It has this feeling of power and fear in it as you're about to prepare to judge somebody

It took the officials 40 minutes to tell us what was going to happen then they separated us out in groups of 50.

The first 50 stayed in the courtroom and the other 50 told to go out and wait and not leave the grounds.

We went out and we waited … the justice system is a very long process … and we waited. I was there 5 hours … waiting.

While we were waiting I started writing to finish some final thoughts on a blog. With my head down I could hear people around me talking.

I raised my head and began to watch and listen to what they said how they acted.

If it were me that they were going to place judgment on I would be happy if they were not on the 12 person team of my peers.

 

Here is the reason.

They were already making a condemning judgment without hearing all the facts.

“you can't just do what you want to do to somebody!”

Others did not want to take the time to hear the facts – “just say something and let’s get out of here.”

This is completely unfair towards the person to be judged. 

 

Why do I bring this up

As new marketers it is easy to sit in the seats of the courtroom and make judgments on those at the front of the room.

“Oh, it’s easy for you”, we say.

“You came out of this field so you already knew this stuff”Envy

“I don’t have time for someone born with a silver spoon in their mouth”

“She knows the top dog so things are just handed to her” (or him)

Are we being fair to that person?

We do not know all the facts.

We have not heard their story.

We have not seen what hardships they went through or how many times they have already failed and got up again. 

We have not examined the evidence to make a true judgement.

We only see what they have and the little green eyed critter called envy or his partner called jealousy blocks our vision of the truth.

 

Here is the truth

You are, we are, being unfair to our self.

How? Good question.

By blocking out valuable information from those people who have made it to the top.

By not hearing if their story may be just like ours that we have not completed yet.

One of man’s biggest mistakes is — we do not learn from others mistakes.

 

Next … you are being unfair to yourself by comparing yourself to them.

They are not you and you are not them!

You want someone to compare yourself too …

Get a mirror – if you are two-faced, get two of them.

Compare that person in the mirror to the person that was there yesterday

Be careful with the judgement – if you convict yourself without hearing the facts … you get shut down.

If you judge too harsh, you will become afraid to stick you hand out for fear of it getting slapped.

Make the judgement based on truth.

 

Finally, compare yourself to what you see in the mirror tomorrow.

I credit this picture to a Facebook post self poitritof “self portrait”   so look at yourself and judge yourself as having great potential. As being a can-do person.

Judge yourself as having the right to belong to a great community of the human race that will give and receive encouragement, strength, knowledge, and compassion when we make a mistake. And a helping hand when we fall.

So go ahead – judge your peers — judgement is all we have – we can not make laws. For there is only one lawgiver.

But judge correctly – for with the set of rules you judge others will also judge you.

If you are looking for a community to help you without condemning judgement then try the Elite Marketing Pro community. See if it is the community you have been looking for.

to your success

Baxter

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Baxter Cribbs

Baxter Cribbs -- I like marketing and Copywriting and helping other learn the same. When I am not learning about either of these I like to work out. The outdoor YMCA track is his favorite place. I also like studying and talking about the scriptures. I believe a person should be growing until the end of life.

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