Don’t focus on the bad. Unless it’s good.

Comments from previous bosses and colleagues that stuck.

I don’t dwell on the bad. Well, sometimes for a while, but then I shake myself out of it, usually. It eats me up inside if I don’t, it can be paralyzing.

My professional career spans now some 37 years, but since I was 14, I’d “reported” to someone - the boutique manager, the restaurant owner, the head cashier at Kroger’s grocery stores.

I’ve made a l…