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Step on your toes?

Actually, it may be much worse because being actually stepped on gives us only a fleeting pain. Things they say? That’s different. If someone’s words step on our toes, they can hurt our feelings real bad – and that kind of pain may last for ever.

Well, if we allow that kind of hurt feelings to last for ever then we probably don’t deserve any better but that’s another matter entirely. Here, I’m exaggerating merely to illustrate the point – hurt feelings take longer to heal up.

Anyways, I think you’ve got the point.

Here are media examples of situations where someone steps on other people’s toes, hurting them one way or another:

1. Whether you’re on the swim team in the relay or you’re running a deal in real estate, no one wants to get disqualified!

Automatic DQ, jerk. What’d you do that for? You just got the whole team disqualified!

Can you relate to this at all? Has anyone ever stepped on your toes in a contract or do you feel like maybe you stepped out of line and did something that you weren’t supposed to do? Maybe you didn’t get caught, but hey... the fact of the matter is, you should have stayed in your own lane. Whether it is swimming, running a relay or writing a real estate contract there are certain times when the baton needs to be passed, and that is when it is the other person’s time to do what they are best at.

In swimming, you want that rockin’ free-styler to get in there after the back-stroker has done their thing- because if your free-styler starts to back-stroke, this is no bueno- automatic DQ! If it is the relay, pass the baton to the dude that you know is going to sprint you to the finish line in record time and win your team the ultimate prize. But if you forget to pass the baton, you can get DQ’d. In real estate, passing the baton means talking about the law when you should have directed your client to an attorney- hello, super DQ, as in you can get in some serious trouble!