It’s easy to see things at face value especially when our emotions are involved.

You’re in the moment. You’re upset. You’re instincts tell you to get upset. They tell you to fight back. Go against is feeling.

You have no idea what’s going on with the other person. 

For example, if you set up a meeting to go over your product and your potential client doesn’t show up it’s our tendency to get upset. ”

How could he not let me know he wasn’t going to able to meet me today?”, “What did I do to deserve this?”, “How could she be so unprofessional?”

All these thoughts will run through our head but you have no idea what happened. 

What if she had a family emergency? What if she was in some kind of accident? 

You never know what could have happened. It may be our initial feeling to get upset but we need to take a step back. 

Some people will forget about your meeting or decide to do something instead but that’s rare. In most cases they’ll at least say something to you. Let you know they have to reschedule. 

If they don’t, that usually means it was an emergency at the last minute. 

They respect you enough to schedule a meeting. If they don’t show up, don’t react. Remember they probably had something important come up and move on.