Self realization leads to self leadership
As i end my first class today here at SOIL on Self
leadership ,the most important question that evolves in my mind as to whether
am I true to myself and honest in anything and everything that I do ? More than
that of "Self leadership", the idea that keep on coming to my mind
throughout the class was that of "Self realization". The idea to
understand me and myself better. For if I understand myself and my strengths better,
I will be able to understand others and in a way be a good leader and serve the
society for a better cause.
World around us is full of good things and in our day to day
life we can actually learn a lot by observing, listening and sensing. People react
to situations by their instinct. A half filled glass of water while may appear
to be a partially filled by one observer, the latter may look into it as half
empty. It is how we see and perceive things. While we talk about the 6 layers
of awareness of human mind and soul, we see that gradually as a human being
tries and gets aligned to all these layers and conquers all of them, he
achieves the ultimate goal in his life. He should not just follow his instinct
but should be compassionate enough to understand the relationship that he has
built with others. He should be ethical and should get rid of his
"ego" to attend wisdom. Our mind is full of ideas but to cultivate
them we need to understand the basics of life - while we claim ourselves to be diversified,
sustainable, ethical and compassionate we should also get rid of ego to have a mindful
of idea.
Many a times, I have seen and felt that we hardly listen to
people. Our mind gets distracted by a lot of other things happening around
us or maybe even the postures or the
gestures of the speaker to whom we listen, rather pretend to listen. Even as
pointed out by one of our class mates
today one of the key reason is " we keep on relating our own lives to the
story which the speaker is narrating and in a way
listen only half of his story ". To better this art of
listening we should actually practice small habits like forming a group of two
where one speaks about something and the other draws inferences on whatever he
says. So in a way, the second person not only just listens to the former but also
tries and portrays what the former is implying to say. Thanks to Anil Sir for
helping us in doing such kind of an activity
which helped us to understand what a good listener really
is.And as I quote his words what he said today in the class " Ego helps us
to speak but our alter ego gives us the essence of what we speak". Needless
to say, here the first person acts as the ego and the second the alter ego.
A leader should not only listen but also observe things
around him. There is a thin line difference between seeing and observing
things. While seeing mainly means looking at things in a general way, observing
things is mainly done to draw inferences. Observation is a powerful tool of human
being to understand and foresee things around him. A simple example here can be
of a team leader in an organization who listens to his team mates about the
issues they are facing while delivering a project and working with them hand in
hand to solve such issues. These kind of activities motivates the team mates
and make them more productive.
While observation and listening seems to be a source of receiving
energy, touch is a way of spreading positive energy to the people around us . A
small activity today in class made me understand that just by a simple touch we
can make a person understand our feelings for him .While a positive sense of
touch may actually strengthen the bond and make a lonely person feel that there
is someone who is with him to help in the times of your crisis, a negative
sense of touch may de-motivate a person. Organizations can actually just by
appreciating their employees can motivate them, hence making them more
productive. A tap at the back by a manager will definitely make a new joinee
more enthusiastic at workplace. Thus spreading a more positive environment at
workplace.
So to conclude, a human being or an organization needs to
have a goal - a goal for a better cause of serving people. He should be
ethically sound , compassionate and diversified to gain wisdom and have a mindful
of idea. And these ideas he can use for betterment of the society and for doing
that he has to follow certain habits and values and listen, observe and feel
things happening around him.
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