HOW AWARE ARE YOU WHEN YOU READ AND INTERPRET YOUR EMAILS?

In one word, would you generally describe your personal or workplace emails as, Informative? Sincere? Disrespectful? Harsh? Loving? Judgmental? Demanding? Congenial? Happy?  If they vary, what does it depend on? Who’s sending it? What their motives are? What else?

What is your initial response to emails on a given day?  How do you interpret an email if your day is not going well at all and you’re not happy? How do you interpret the same email if someone has just acknowledged a job well done and you’re feeling great? Does how you feel about the person sending the email make a difference in how you interpret it?

If you were an actor and a film director asked you to read the following from a place of anger or frustration, how would you read it?

“The things you told me that you wanted to accomplish are yours. If you don’t get them done it’s you and only you who may or may not be disappointed.”

Now, how would you read the same lines coming from a place of sincerity, respect and non-judgment?

What ‘place’ do you come from as you read your emails?

~Lesia