Sharing on coping with challenges and letdowns
The last 8 months have been trying times both personally and
professionally. It is not business as
usual in our work place. Our company has
been going through a transition where new owners with their version of business
model to apply to the organization will result in structural change. Drastic changes have been put in place
starting January 2013.Related to work but for the family, I am working on a project initiated by my parents as early as year 2006 involving the government and farmers which has been forever under process for less than a decade. I am targeting to complete it by 1st quarter of 2013.
On a level very close to me, my parents are in their mid 80’s. I want them to live their lives to the fullest. At their age, health issues are perennially a concern.
I’ve been coping so far with these letdowns through my
spirituality and personal leadership.
In every opportunity where I can pray or hear mass, I pray for my
intentions following a simple formula of prayer; give praise, give thanks, ask
for forgiveness and ask for favor and guidance (Pagpuri, Pasasalamat, Patawad,
Paghingi). The favors and guidance I
consistently ask for are good health for my parents and me, processing the family
project, providing me and my family with the resources to coast through the
day-to-day needs comfortably and lastly to bless and protect the members of my
family, close relatives and friends.
Consciously, I apply a personal leadership concept which I have
embraced as a guiding principle. I am
sharing it as it has worked well for me mainly for the technical and
professional tasks.
Learning is an added knowledge manifested in a behavior. Behavior repeatedly done becomes a
habit. Habit extended over time is
embedded as a personal value.”
The crises I am faced with are quasi.
• There is still
work to do. I am involved in the pilot
projects of the new owners.
• Parents are coping
with their ailment and are gaining strength for full recovery.
• Slowly still
slowly, the project is moving bringing to closure concretely closer to the
targeted deadline.
• Resources are
coming in. Relatives and friends are
around. And indeed reserves show up
making me hurdle life’s setbacks both on and personal and professional level. Medical experts are there generously and
compassionately applying their expertise with dedication to heal ably supported
by capable and gentle medical support staff. Each one of them is an angel coming to rescue during trying moments.
• A great deal of
the reserves comes from various sources to which I and our family are grateful for.
As I survive these crises, I also learned in the past an effective way to deal with with greater challenges: extend kindness and goodness to others. These secrets I intend to continue as I still look to the future with optimism.
Overcoming these letdowns and quoting from the Easter Message said at the Gesu by Fr. Jett Villarin, “Let us therefore be gratefully happy.”
“How shall our happiness be grown from gratefulness? Simply by acknowledging that everything, all that we see around us, all this is gift. Life is gift. We did not ask for life. It was just given us. Even this terrifying freedom that allows us to mean our choices, some of which hurt us, this freedom is gift. That is what gifts are all about: they are not bought or even deserved. They are just given gratis (i.e. freely) ex abundantia cordis, out of the abundance of the heart of the giver.”
