Mike Holt Life Skills Series - Sensitive People

Sensitive People

I built my life and my business with hard work. Along the way, I developed skills and created systems to help me succeed. I want to share with you the knowledge and skills that led to my success, the goal being to give you focus for your own success. My Life Skills Program will help you understand the skills you need to develop an action plan so your life can be successful beyond what you currently feel is possible. So how do you get what you want? It's actually really easy. Do what you love and do it with passion.

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Have a greater value than many of us understand or appreciate.

Sensitive people bring stability to relationships and organizations.

Here are a few of the “commonalities” shared by highly sensitive people according to the Huffington Post article, “16 Habits of Highly Sensitive People.”

Above-average manners
Emotionally reactive
Extremely detail-oriented
Feel more deeply
Take longer to make decisions
Upset if they make a “bad” or “wrong” decision
Work well in a team environment

Don’t confuse sensitive with laid back. Sensitive people have a lot to offer and bring stability to relationships.

You can’t have a group totally made up of “Type A” strong personalities working together—it would be chaos. But you don’t want a lot of sensitive people all working together either. You need to have a mixture.

All of us are different, and we bring different things to the table. When you start leaving people out (based on personality traits), you start losing your team. There are unbelievably gifted people whose value we could maximize as an organization or as a country. We can’t overlook them because they’re a little different, quieter, need more time to think before responding, or are more delicate than we are.

What I didn’t value, and I’ve learned over the last couple of years, is the value of sensitive people and what they bring to the table. I used to be impatient with them, and I thought that they were too easily upset by the things that people thought or said about them. You need to be inclusive and bring people together to maximize their potential and yours.
—Mike Holt

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