The Missing “ME”

                 The other day, being the Month end, I was working on a late shift and had possibly a stretch of time due to unfinished works and had to make up of what’s been up so far and ended up very late for dinner and to bed. It struck me in awe to understand what will be the reality, if this is going to be a day to day story, where in the world amidst pandemic are we going to go? Was realistic question to understand and think?

            I quickly made some quick pointers to understand what’s been the missing part because of this!, and listed that I will be missing to catch up virtually with friends, no time for family, no time for other things in life and it also came to big eye-opener that I will also miss that time for me!, the thought on goals, aspirations, passions and what more!

            I then took up a recent statistics to understand is it my problem but realized that its become a global problem of missing work-life balance for many ending up in major either health issues or mental disorders to struggle with life.

            Every time in life, we end up being busy but we don’t know, actually what are we busy about and ending up losing the moments in life, made me realize that there needs to be an actual plan of some order to come out of this scenario of what’s been the need of the hour.

            We may have lot of unfinished things in life, that we may or may not have promised to some or to many but our only solution, to this is have a list down of what it is and to make a commitment to either do it in the upcoming months or if that’s not going to happen then we may decide to wipe out that thought forever, which will reduce our burden to manage things amidst busyness.

            I reiterate, amidst the world where earlier meeting people, face to face conversations, attending class room study was a matter of enriching life to its full is slowly fading away to virtual ways of living, it is our responsibility to stick back to limiting the ways of media over the week and also in the weekends and making to spend time on other things!

            Many a times, we maintain a To- do List thinking about what is our priority and we end up multi-tasking but virtually ending up in only finishing a limited tasks, but rather planning for a To- Achieve List of taking up only what’s necessarily for you, for example mails addressed directly to you to act immediately can help oneself to accept that there is time for everything.

            It’s the law of the land that there is 24 Hours in a day and we need to give up time for family and friend and also a matter of priority our health, we need to figure out organizing our responsibilities to understand that reflecting on our day still can be part of everyday life.

            Today is life—the only life you are sure of, why not spend on something not worth living for but rather looking up to look up on our achieve list and make life more happier! That what is was so far!

“If you don't take time out for yourself, you're doing yourself and everyone around you a disservice.”― Melissa Ambrosini,

 

Joseph Kamal Francis

 

The Moment of Uplift- An Experience

I have always been a great fan of workplace coz that’s where I understood, that there is equality. As I was a much matured guy right from the days of my teens and pre-teens and the workplace was the only place I felt much happy as there was that equality which made me to always be there.

Looking behind life ahead in my 3 years of my experience, and listening to fellow colleagues, made me realize, that there’s always a difference when you not only look up into your life and growth but see the growth in others, the process of accompaniment was a different experience rather a cherished experience to me as it helped me to express a whole lot of things to a lot of people.

Many stalwarts always have this interest that they know, much of ideas and thought process, but a certain set of motivation to bring it out, which is where they needed me as I played the role of somebody who gave presence and value.

Things seem very much interested when I moved up the ladder, as I had to look into a lot of business stuff and maintaining that constant rapport which the situation favored, that’s where I discovered Sharespace a simple platform where you send something in mail, on a daily basis, where you keep the many motivated to do something they are part of, or at least to keep the interest not differ away.

It went on a simple journey, until it went on a discovery to do something, known as the Employee Appreciation Day, as a part of department’s journey where each colleague will write something about their fellow colleagues, which brought a lot of change, many employee had their hearts open out and the moment of uplift to many, who where never heard of.

It took a lot of sacrifice in listening to the sharing of senior pros who had a lot of memoires to cherish and share and the evening was little colorful moments cherished till today.

Life’s moments may have been a lot of many ups and downs and some bitter moments, but the uplift matters and that’s when you come up in life.

Cheers

Joe

Joseph Kamal Francis

Is True Learning? Still a Dream

I have always been a great fan of workplace coz that’s where I found rejuvenation and I found life. Like always I am also part of a big team of fourteen under four different structures internally and we make us of the opportunity the normal as always.

We meet as a team every week for our regular weekly team huddle and that’s where we discuss our day to day analysis of the week and also discuss our plan for the upcoming weeks.

There was this one week, when we sat for the usual huddle where the team decided to plan for a newly migrated process into our workplace and there was this least expectation to train at least eight of them in the battalion.

The Head informs that there will be this eight of us who will get cross trained and the other two will get to train to take care of the rest, and the remaining two will continue to take care of the rest as there has been so much escalation leading to financial loss because of them.

I t made me a bit angry and I was quite upset about it, which made me realize? Where is true learning? How do we define ourselves just because one doesn’t do work in a proper way? And only when one gets a chance to learn something new? , then alone he/ she can make or get a better chance to prove that one is capable to moving mountain, it possibly made me understand where is the modern workplace leading? a basic understanding is where are today’s leaders guiding the team members to?

True learning to define is a way of life which comes where one that puts an extra step to get to know something from the normal routine in which he or she is into leading the ultimate goal of change. It is not a process of unlearning or relearning but a way of life that one continues till eternity.

Learning doesn’t get stopped just because one makes mistakes in life. We believe a known fact that failure is also a stepping stone to success and that’s when we get opportunities we get to move ahead in life, chances we take in life, we get to prove who we are and it makes us special.

Now understanding, that this is a common situation that happens in almost everywhere, we need to understand that there arose a greater sense of understanding that leaders who lead teams need to take note into, coz, no one is special and everyone is special and motivating them to do the best matters a must.

The world at large is so captivating and there is this common known fact of unequal society which we have been talking for almost generations and it is no one else rather we who have made it as we have found it.

As Young leaders it is time, we need to be a little aware of our individuals whom we move along wherever we are, and be more adaptive for life.

As leaders at workplace, we need to be proactive in adapting what it takes to be a universal leader one who portrays empathy as a priority and only when a just society is born.

Our way of life is adapted to where we started way a long time back, but is always matters to take that extra eight steps than the usual two to reach the ultimate goal of learning for life where everyone is given his/ her due to be there and to prove that his strength which will benefit none the less where one supports.

Cheers

Joe       

Joseph Kamal Francis