The Day I Seriously Messed Up
Have you ever experienced being all convuluted, all thoughts mixed up in your head, so many things to juggle all at once, and as much as you try to keep things organized one simple detail blows the whole thing off?
I just did. Today.
As most of the people I talk to recently know, I am the assistant to a top executive in our company. And she’s really really good. When I mean good, she’s the best at what she does and looks good doing it. And she’s a very very nice mentor. She’s so nice and so good, it makes you feel guilty when you foul up. As in when you foul up just a bit.
And that’s how I feel, as I’ve been completely messing it up lately. Especially today.
I wouldn’t want to take up all of your net time with the whole story, so I’ll keep it short.
I was appointed to schedule a meeting. Schedule couldn’t push through at once. Weeks passed. After a follow up and checking the people concerned, I planned to schedule it next week. Boss tells me meeting should be set within the week. I complied. I coordinated to sched the meeting for *today*. But I messed up. I overlooked to include one division. I forgot to remind them about the format of the documents to be used for the meeting. I crammed rushed to follow up all necessary and overlooked details on the day itself (today? yes, today).
Thank goodness for helpful assistants. And thank goodness I booked the venue early.
And yes, the meeting has pushed through. But here’s the thing, it will not be avoided that there have been violent reactions with the short notice and confusion and rush. So yes, I absolutely feel guilty just the same. And since I was really restless about me messing it all up, I took responsibility and sent a letter of apology to all concerned.
And yes I feel better. Especially when I shared it to someone unlikely who would listen, but did anyway and gave sound advice.
So one thing I learned today which I wanna share with everyone:
When things mess up and it’s all your fault, take responsibilty and do not fear. Help comes, and it’ll be from the unlikeliest of places.
I feel a lot better now, thank you. *heaves* I already cried it out anyway. :p
*hugs everyone*
