Stinking up the place!

Is it that time of year again? The time where everyone takes out their pens to scratch each other’s eyeballs out. The back stabbing, gossiping, bitching is once aging shamelessly rearing its head and it seems like everyone is being dragged down by it. 

(f you have are living in a small community somwhere especially if you are student overseas, you might be able to relate to this. Actually if you are even in any organization it may make sense.)

People fail to realize that we are all traveling in the same boat so if you fart we all can have to deal with the odor. In other words; say if you don’t like the course we sail, talk to the captain. Instead if you run up the pole and change the direction of the sails in an aim to sabotage, you too will be the one who becomes directionless.

Don’t be afraid to share knowledge! Why is it that no one can’t be happy when a another excels, Why is it that some who excel cannot bring themselves to guide others in fear they will become more prominent than them. UNDESTAND ONE THING CLEARLY! If you used to be the one who to dropped the anchor, and now you navigate the ship, teach others how to drop the anchor. (There is also no harm in grooming them to navigate the ship) My mum says even if roll on the beach not every grain of sand will stick onto you. Only what is yours will stick, so stop worrying someone will steal of your plate! 

Not everything is what it seems! If someone mops the decks, and after years they are still mopping the decks don’t belittle them. You may think it’s because they are not capable of doing more. You may be sorely wrong, they probably dint get the opportunity that you did. Another reason may be they now how important mopping the decks is to keep this ship clean and keep everyone healthy! A job many may undervalue and overlook but they know better.

 

 

Don’t be stingy with your compliments! Many think compliments are should be reserved. Well to me compliments equal appreciation and encouragement. Give it where possible (you lose nothing by doing it), one nice word can go a long way. It can encourage and inspire another, making their day much more productive. If someone does a great job at something please remember it benefits everyone.  Nevertheless don’t play loose with them either, then they no longer hold any value. (There may some leaders who don't pull their weight and other must pick up the slack,but i think we are all smart enough to tell the difference)

Criticize and question! It gives rise to the betterment of what we have (But be able to accept the fact that sometimes you might be wrong). Don’t let anyone silence you when you have a point. SO, CRITICIZE and QUESTION but do it to the face of whom it concerns not at their backs! Gossiping, backstabbing and talking behind people will not be useful to anyone. Neither do confrontations, it leaves us with a one big public mess. No one likes it when you dry your dirty linen in public. So express your concerns diplomatically, behind closed doors. If we let a lack of unity dictate our lives nothing will advance, nothing will change and you will drag everyone (including the innocent bystanders) with you down a bottomless pit of frustration and disappointment. 

To sum it up; weather we sink or sail is up to everyone in the ship, so act wisely.

I am not perfect. I could be charged guilty of many of the crimes I stated above. But no one is perfect. All I have to say is we try to do and be the best we can but at times we falter. To err is human, but to make a living out of it is just downright dysfunctional. Sorry just needed to vent ;)