30 Jun 2011

A spirit to serve vs a spirit of self centeredness…

Connected to the spirit of excellence [earlier blog], is the spirit to serve / to bless / to let others have a good experience…be it:

  • communication
  • expectation management
  • results / outcomes
  • sense of being taken care of
  • reaching out to those who need it

When in business, we who are in Learning Design, must be fiercely guarding the interest of the learner. When we are self-focused, due to:

  • fears / insecurity
  • resentment / anger
  • over-ambition
  • task mindedness
  • refusal to see past one’s failure
  • being all absorbed with one’s own feelings
  • myopic view of only one’s own gain
  • being contentious
  • self importance
  • ego

….we cannot really serve or excel in the service sector and Learning Design is all about service.

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Quotations:

God starts us out on a life course to fulfill a certain purpose and then, only when we are ready, He gives us course corrections. Like a good river pilot, He steers us away from troubled waters, and like a good coach, He never puts us in the game until we are ready. The journey is never boring.

REMEMBER THIS ABOUT YOU...

  Read this out loud to yourself, and mean it!!

  I am precious, valuable, lovable and capable.
  The world will not be the same without me.
  I make a difference in this world, in the community I live in.
  I can make another person smile.
  I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
  I sing for I am loved by a great God whose nature is to give  love, mercy and grace.

  [In Hindi]
  Mai amulya hoon.
  Yeh duniya mayray bina wahi nahin rahegi.
  Mayray hone say is duniya mein kuch badlav hai.
  Mujh se doosre ke chahre pay muskuraahat aati hai.
  Mujhe bhayankar se banaya gaya hai.
  Mujhe gaana hai ki ek mahaan; ishwhar mujhe pyaar karte.
  Hain aur mayray prati daya dikhaate hain.