Các con thương yêu,

I would like to share this experience with you.

It happened yesterday when I supposed to show up at 12:30PM to chair a meeting. I forgot, and sat in my office reading other stuff. My direct supervisor rushed in my office saying that her boss, herself and other people were waiting for me.

Of course I had the meeting package prepared for this meeting a couple of days ago, but I did not have copies of the handouts. I rushed into the meeting room, did not have the handouts. Then I found a copy of a handout, left the room to make copies. But the copy machine was new, I could not use it efficiently!!! I came back the room while people were talking with each other about other business (which was good in a sense that they did not pay attention to what I was doing). My direct boss already went back to her desk to make copies from an electronic file.

Then I started the meeting, forgetting the introduction ! The meeting went fairly well but my boss had to remind me for telling the audience about my plan for the next couple weeks at the summary of the meeting.

I felt so bad about this that I almost avoid seeing my bosses.  But then decided to I stop by my direct boss and thanked her for helping me, then I said I was sorry for the mess I did.  That was no big deal.  Now the bigger deal is my  bigger boss, the Division Head.  I wanted to hide from him.

Are you laughing at me. Go ahead, that is the right thing to do.

This morning when I saw him down in the hallway, I slowed down to walk with him, laughed with a smiling face while telling him that I was very embarrassed because of the "screwed up" meeting yesterday.

He smiled back and said: "Oh, if it it was your biggest mistake, don't worry about it!"

That way I got so much relief !!

My conclusion is if you ever made any mistake, please take your courage to tell the person in charge or involved, that you recognized the mistake, that you felt sorry, etc,... Then everything will be shrunk to near zero, so you can gain a big relief.

Love

Mom