Black Bird Singing In the Dead of Night

Whether you are a follower or a leader, it is just important to become vulnerable of things that may come your way. Being vulnerable does not necessarily mean being susceptible to physical things but all the more on the unseen—emotional aspects, censorship, criticism.

As a leader, you need to be steadfast in whatever problems you may encounter on your management. As a leader, you must show your firmness, not necessarily having a mind shut off from criticisms to other people. Being firm means, you should of course hear or let other people their concerns or even complaints, but you also need to review these, analyze and make a “firm” decision after all things have been considered.

Meanwhile, if you are a follower, you can not just accept whatever your superior wishes you to do. Sometimes, you also need to be “vulnerable” on things that you think are below the belt and unjust.

It is nice if you do things right and well, especially when you want to impress somebody, for instance your boss at work. However, sometimes, being perfectionist is not advisable do it as it may result to not getting things done in time. It is because, you are too bogged down on details.

Also, when you are perfectionist, you tend to nitpick on other people’s work. As a result, you may be able to hurt other people’s feelings without knowing that you are, because for you it is just your personality to be perfectionist. However, not all people are the same. Before you know it, people might already saying negative things at your back because of your attitude. This character, obviously, is not good for you. Thus, as early as possible, you need to correct it.

Remember to just do your work well but not necessarily too perfect to impress other people.

A lot of people have this wrong notion of peace. They believe that peace is the absence of war and it is calmness at its very best. However, the real essence of peace cannot be measured by the absence of war. We see war as a battle between person to person or country to country. However, war can take place everywhere. It can be you against your computer, you against your god, or you against yourself. Thus, even if you see no big war as long as you have this huge struggle within yourself, it is not yet time to call it peace.

You have to realize that when people are quiet, they are not necessarily peaceful. At the back of their minds, tons of things bother them. Yet, they opt to be quiet. When you have already felt peace of mind and relaxation of the soul, you can safely say that peace is achieved.