“Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t,
you’re right.” – Henry Ford.
In life, to be a better professional you have to learn few
things, the same applies also to be a better person. Life will teach us
everything; it’s about reminding others what they fail to see. We have to start learning from life one by one. In Social
Media life, there are several applications to increase the likes, followers. In
real life, it’s not that easy to influence, inspire people and converting them
as followers.It may take a long time to
develop those qualities in our life, before that it just take a matter of time
to think. Only if we think, we can implement and lead a quality life. So, let
us start to think with one of the basic quality which we need to develop as a good
human being.
Appreciation - It’s a giving
thing. People may ask money, gold, food, water from others but never
appreciation, instead they yearn for it.
Think of the moments when you
appreciate your mother’s food, father’s smartness, sibling’s work – why can’t
we try this out with other people. Somehow, we fail to appreciate others when they
do commendable job.
When a baby fell down while
trying to walk, you got to appreciate its effort. Rather if you scold and
threatened the baby for trying, it will never walk. On the contrary, if you
appreciate when someone does evil, he’ll continue to do more. We need to know
when to appreciate. If we appreciate for
everyone for everything then there will be no value for appreciation.
There were lot of speculation
regarding the dislike button in facebook. Though Mark rolled out various reaction
buttons, he didn’t introduce the dislike button. The reason given by Facebook
was they didn’t want to limit user’s reaction to just simple “dislike”. Think
in this perspective, when we share a post, if we get dislikes more than likes,
psychologically we will reduce the number posts we share. At one point of time,
we may stop posting in facebook. What if everyone has this fear and slowly Facebook
turn to another Orkut. Mark may doesn’t want a single button, which depreciate
people, to reduce his profit.
Makes sense right ?
On World Kidney Day, the
organisation where I worked earlier conducted a free kidney check-up camp. Few
volunteers from a hospital came and conducted the check-up. At the end of the
day, those volunteers were waiting for their bus to return. In that time,
myself along with my manager passed them. Suddenly, my manager stopped, went to
them and said “You guys did a wonderful job. Thank you.” After wishing them, he
left. I stood there and saw the smile in their face, which I think is priceless.
I didn’t appreciate them in first
place. Thus, it mean I don’t know about
appreciation before? I knew about appreciation. Simple, I just forgot. This is
the lesson life reminded me to appreciate people, if they do commendable work. In
professional life, this will help us to have better relationship with our peers,
sub-ordinates and also to maintain the co-ordination among employees and in
personal life, it will keep you surrounded by your well wishers.
Develop the quality of Appreciation
by appreciating me for reminding you about Appreciation. I do yearn for
Appreciation. Human, right?
Jokes apart, take a moment to appreciate when people do good work, which we couldn’t do. It will just take a matter of time to apply in our life.
Keep Smiling :)
