Saturday, April 24, 2010

Mental Overload

This quarter has taught me so much so far regarding academics, how to handle my future, adjusting to a long-distance relationship, and loving people.

God has granted clarity through my classes this quarter. HR is a frontrunner in a grad school program to pursue after I graduate from UC in December. I've always lived for making people comfortable and with a job like this I could do it in a professional way. My Organizational Diversity professor has been so helpful in making these issues in the workplace pertinent in my own life in addition to providing information about the real world and how to approach researching schools. It doesn't seem like I have ever learned and retained so much from classes before. I can recognize structural aspects about organizations, personal tendencies, and organizational reactions to issues. It's a fulfilling sensation.

Going along with researching grad schools, my future in general is a big question mark that is slowly getting smaller in size. However, as things are being clarified like my career, more questions stem from it. The point in our relationship has come to make decisions about moving forward because my grad school research will be extremely different if I'm only considering myself. Hopefully we can talk soon, considering I've been helping in the decision about which base he will start on after he graduates next Spring...

While I'm still at UC finishing everything out, entering the "imparting wisdom" stage of my time in organizations, I continually learn how to effectively love people and meet their needs so that they can make it through the day and succeed in their future endeavors. This is so important. Making people feel appreciated, loved, and informed helps to ensure the future of organizations and of the people who are so valuable in every context of their lives.

God never ceases to amaze me. I'm learning so much and I'm scared of so much. But I know that I'll never be alone and I never have to do anything on my own.

Monday, April 5, 2010

Trust

While sharing thoughts through Facebook, Twitter, and blogging is an interesting experience that leaves room for a lot of knowledge and fun, I have to remember that I am being followed and watched by a lot of people. It seems like no one else can see it sometimes.

I have problems when people take things the wrong way, read too far into things, and assume the worst in me. This happened twice today with people who are close to me. One felt excluded from a statement I made about other people who were emphasized for a particular reason. The other one held onto selected things I was saying as though they are everything going on in my life.

How do you handle having the worst assumed in you and also, keeping yourself from assuming the worst in others?

Trust.