I am calm and strangely still and quiet this morning. Gone are the doubts and gone are the worries about today. My hands still shake a little but that's been going on for a while now and I just need to ensure that I have my notes and wits about me.
What has brought about this is the final what if thinking last night. I raised up from the detail and just viewed what is this actually all about. That in itself brought the meeting down to one thing and one thing only. It's a yes/no vote that's all it is. I am guaranteed to win it but they don't know that at the moment.
I need to stay calm and collected no matter what comes up and ensure that the vote is the thing that matters, that's all that has been demanded. The rest of it is noise or irrelevant and so it is only how they react and I cannot control that, I can only control myself and how I react. I've been doing this for years and so it shouldn't be something difficult or new to me excepting that it is about losing my position and business.
I am prepared for this, I have played it out far too much in my head and need to realise that I must stop my potty mouth sarcasm just for a short while as this is taking place.
Everything is scripted and as my good friend and I used to say (all the time) "Follow the process" - that's all I need to do is to follow the process and bring it back to process if it drifts away. No more no less, no going off subject just follow the process.
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