Live Your Worries

Live Your Worries

We cannot expect to live without anxiety but we can learn to put it to our own good use.

To struggle with our environment is part of our heritage, a part of the complex adventure of being human.

‘Man has to pay the price of fear and worry in order to be human. Our susceptibility to anxiety is the soil of our human growth,’ says Joshua Liebman.

No one can dodge feeling of anxiety, but in living with them we can learn a kind of wisdom that will lessen our burden.

Therefore, do not add to your real worries by pilling on false ones. Trifles can often obsess us and blot out clear thinking.

Generally it is not the big problem that defeats us but the scab of little thoughts and fears.

Do not add to your present worries the burden of the past or the future. Too often one lies awake at night agonizing over what he/she should have done, or what he/she should do if this or that happens.

What you need to remember is that what troubles you today, will trouble you differently, if at all, tomorrow!

You will never be sorry for:-

You will never be sorry for:-

Doing your level best,

Being kind to the poor,

Hearing before judging,

Thinking before speaking,

Standing by your principles,

Stopping your ears to Gossip,

Being generous to an enemy,

Being courteous to all,

Asking pardon when in error,

Being honest in business transactions,

Giving an unfortunate person a lift,

Being prompt in keeping your promises, and to put the best meaning on the action of others.

Be a Self- Starter

Be a Self- Starter

People who have been helped all their lives are seldom good for anything in a tough situation. When misfortune comes, they look around for something cling to or learn on. If the prop is not there, down they go.

Once down, they are as helpless as capsized turtles or unhorsed men in armour, who cannot find their feet again unless helped.

Efforts carried over to achievement train a person to self reliance. When the person has proved to the world that they can trust themselves, the world will trust them.

Some people are always ready to do the things they are asked to do. They willingly do a little service, if their attention is called to it, but they never see the chance for themselves.

The person, whose spirit is kind, should seek chances to help others. They should resolve to get into self- starter class, instead of having to be driven every time.

Happiness Is For You

Nature inspires us with secret repugnance of the remembrance of the last things; it seems to nature that cheerfulness and mirth are incompatible with habitual attention to these main truths of life.

But the fact is, we are unhappy because we do not reflect on these truths; If the ones penetrated into our minds and became the daily rule of our conduct, the largest part of our troubles, regrets and disquiets would disappear at once. How could we still torment ourselves about the thousand trifles of human life if we said boldly to ourselves: ‘The figure of this world passes away?’ ‘What does it profit a man to gain the whole world?’ ‘Seek the kingdom of God, and all the rest will be added to you.’

We would not give up our hearts to sadness for a moment of suffering, if we thought seriously of death which will soon separate us from everything- of judgement which will place us before God to render him an account of our actions- of the eternity of joys or of torments which awaits depending on what we have done well or ill.

It is this vantage point that we must place ourselves; if we are faithful to it, trouble and disquiet will happily be banished from our hearts.

Don’t Lose Heart

Most of our disappointments come from our very self, for we are not sufficiently capable of seeing things optimistically.

Suppose we are disappointed with a friendship. At first we thought it was sincere and free of self- seeking, but when we discovered it was affected by a grain of selfishness.

But is not friendship a source of joy for us? Is it not a fragrant flower blooming in the midst of our life?

Let us then preserve it as a relief against loneliness and let us close an eye to its little deficiencies.

Sometimes we are disappointed over a love affair and our heart is at break point. But if lover has revealed itself to us as merely a source of sorrow, is it not better to have given it up?

The word disappointment should be more fittingly substituted by the word weakness.

SELF-MANAGED DEVELOPMENT

You may be asking yourself: ‘why self-managed development when there are so many other things in my life?’

BUT,

· Are you really happy with what you have achieved in life and work so far?

Could you be doing more?

· Do you want to do more?

· Are there things in life that you’ve always wanted to do but never quite got round to?

· Are there opportunities you haven’t taken?

Now is the time to start doing something about it. Self-managed development is all about you taking responsibility for your future!

NEW & EXCITING CHALLENGES

Many organizations are incorporating self-managed development into their management development strategy. They actively want to encourage people to take more control of, and responsibility from their own development. After all, people are an organisation’s most important asset.

This, of course, does not mean that the organization abdicates its responsibility for its people’s development; in some ways it creates a more complex situation for human resources people. For the individual, as a self-developer, new and exciting challenges exist.

This course gives an overview of the self-managed development process and a range of practical exercises to help people get started.

DEFINING SELF-MANAGED DEVELOPMENT

Self-managed development is the process whereby you take responsibility form and control of, your won development.

As long as the 16^th century, Galileo said: “You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it in himself.”

WHY SELF- MANAGED DEVELOPMENT?

WHY ARE ORGANISATIONS DOING IT?

1. Typically, human resource professionals cite one or more of the reasons given here and on the following pages for incorporating self-managed development into their HR strategy.

1) Changes in career patterns, both from an organizational and individual perspective, involving some of the following:

2) Organisations are employing more rigorous performance measures.

3) There are shorter, less predictable career paths.

4) Increasingly, portfolio v corporate careers.

5) There is greater mobility between companies.

6) Management talent is identified early and promotion follows.

7) Increased job insecurity.

2. Individuals in organisations are being called upon to develop new managerial skills and capabilities:

· Ability to ‘helicopter vision’ and use their imagination.

· The move from specialist to generalist – the individual who has a holistic view of the organization.

· Exceptional process and people skills – team working, influencing and interpersonal skills.

· Leadership skills and the ability to cope with change and complexity.

· Sensitivity to cultural difference and diversity.

3. The ability to cope with change, both at an organizational and individual level, is something that we all have to deal with in today’s business environment:

· Individual change.

-Continuous learning and development to keep up-date the need to acquire recognizable transferable skills.

-The expectation that individuals ‘own’ their own development.

· Organisational change.

-Development of individuals enhances their ability to cope with organizational change.

· ‘The Learning Organisational’

-An organization’s ability to learn faster than its competitors is its only sustainable competitive advantage.

ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE

The environment facing people in organisations is rapidly changing and the features of organisational life in the past are no longer certain for the future:

· Yesterday- Hierarchies and control Tomorrow -Matrix management and empowerment.

· Yesterday- Organisations develop Tomorrow -Development owned by individuals.

Their people

· Yesterday-Progression ‘up the ladder’

one step at a time Tomorrow -Progression based on merit

· Yesterday-Career growth Tomorrow -Personal growth/’portfolio’ working.

· Yesterday-Focus on training Tomorrow -Focus on learning.

CAREER CHANGES

Changes to organizational life lead to changes in the way people manage their careers:

Yesterday-One organizational/ Job/career

· Tomorrow - Multiple organisations/jobs/careers.

· Yesterday-Upward progression Tomorrow -Many alternative career paths.

· Yesterday-Formal education Tomorrow -Continuous learning.

· Yesterday-Development decided Tomorrow -You take responsibility.

· Yesterday-Job security Tomorrow -Portfolio careers and employability.