Professionalism Tips (With superior)

When communicating with superior/bosses

-Staying Objective
-Never bring in the past tense, e.g. past job/contribution

-Seriousness and paying full attention 

-Responsiveness and readiness to change workflow to superior/bosses instructions/priorities

Freeing yourself from brain clutter and procrastination

The brain is designed to stop you from doing things that are uncomfortable, unsafe and....

Making a list of things to do, throwing the stuff in your face and doing simple things first will bring you out of it.

What is meant by being professional

Usually when the environment in the workplace is right, it is not hard getting down to work.

But if the workplace are filled with people who are not in the right mindset to work, it will negatively affect others and yourself.

When that happens, there is only one thing to do.

Being professional.

And what is meant by being professional?

It means to leave your emotion out as much as possible and react with a Zen mindset to whatever bad things people may throw at you.

In the short run, it is not easy to do, but in the long run, with a calm mind, you will be able to devise better solutions to your problem.

Not work that is tiring, it's the dealing with people part

It is usually not work that is tiring and the reason to make people leave.

It is the people portion that is tiring to dealing with because human are unpredictable and it is usually always the case of every man for himself and human nature to usually label a boogeyman in the flock for everyone to target at, hoping others will not target them.

Because of these laws, you can see people pushing away work they are supposed to do or in short taichi to the boogeyman.

It is natural to feel tired, toxic and negative.

These people thrive on such negative mentality and it is natural to sometimes feel is it right to join them or be outcast yourself.

This happen in school, in work and even in a community (sports, volunteering, interest group)

What should be done to deal with it?

Be yourself in school, be professional in work and be passionate in your community.

Critics are everywhere

In life, someone will surely criticise you no matter what you do. One thing is for sure, no one likes to be criticise.

And same goes for work. If the work given to you is reasonable, you are lucky. But if the work given to you is not reasonable, you are dealt an unlucky card in life.  You can deliver and you are criticise.

There is no other way out sometimes but to look at the person who dealt you that card straight in the eye and said you done your best.

Don't for a moment hope the person will understand you. No one will know best except for yourself.

That's why if you done your best, good job. The rest can let the critics decide. What most important is you got what you want in life or moving towards it.

On Nitro Mode, pushing beyond full gear

I have been on full throttle for the past 3 years but recent work has pushed me beyond my limits and till my breaking point.

Having work almost every day, for more than 12 hours each, fatigue has took over me and I was disappointed with some actions i have done.  On the other hand, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger,  I am very thankful that for being push past the limit.

Through this experience, I could emphatise past with people who I came across as emotional in work, take for example a vendor who sells decoration. I couldn't figure out how he could behave so rudely to others when business is coming in and how he prefers to have lesser business. 

Back then, if put in his shoes, every customer matters and i will speak to every customers with my best efforts. But if you ask me again, I will understand where he is coming from.

The most important thing in life is how you behave when you are at your worst, and that is what distinguish you from others, the good from the average. ;)

Another phase of life: maturity

After surviving the tsunami of events and work, I feel like I grew a lot.

At one point, I was mentally exhausted and broken. There is so much to do but so little time to complete.

And to add to it, there is so many people chasing after you for every minute details and ppl who have a very bad habit of not taking ownership of their work.

I worked day and night, not taking any leave nor medical leave; coming back on some. I even worked during my off-day and there wasn't much personal time where I can contemplate and think about life or feel life.

Surviving all that is not enough, I was mentally scarred and physically drained. I managed to get a couple of days off schedule ahead where I came across a series of video from goal cast.

One video is by a marshal who quote
"Life is like a ocean, full of sharks. To deal with shark you got to stand your ground, do not show that you are afraid and swim away. If the shark still approach you, you got to muster all courage to punch the shark in the snouts".

That reminds me of what Henn Tan, the creator of the USB thumb drive had said in Junior world entrepreneurship forum 2012.

At that time, he sharing of his experience after inventing the thumb drive.

Eating glass, deal with problems you don't plan to work on

Overwhelm

Stretch to your limit