Everyone is
aware of things that frustrate us in our professional lives. It may be a skill
that we find particularly challenging. While my other teacher colleagues find
this task easy, I often regarded this as an issue. It may also be an issue that
we regard as extremely important like meeting of deadlines, while others don’t approach
as enthusiastically as we might like. It may even be a difficult teacher with whom there
is a strong difference of opinion that even simple chit-chat becomes a tiring
task.
As an introvert,
I find public speaking something not so easy – many a time frustrating. Just as
I had identified this skill as my greatest frustration, I decided at the
beginning of the year to find some way in which my work actually can benefit
from this “often-maddening” relationship. In other words, I kept telling myself
that this is “THE SKILL” that I have the most opportunity to master no matter what.
And through reexamining of my SELF concept, I came to the realization “… why my
other colleagues are great public speakers – they were basically themselves!”
Maybe I need to just be more open and be natural when I speak to teachers. Then
there is the issue of things I regarded as extremely important such that
meeting of deadlines. While others may consider this as a personality conflict,
I thought about its significance in terms of helping my team to work harder,
think more creatively or moving out of their comfort zone.
By embracing our
frustrations, I believe that it would help transform our workplace from a
constant source of frustration to a beneficial environment where we continually
improve. And since we cannot usually change the person or situation, the
easiest thing to change is our ATTITUDE. And our attitude may well have been
the problem all along.
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