Dreaming Big in your Hard Times
We live in a world that is full of selfishness and hate and among them, you will hardly find humbleness and honesty. Having a goal or a target in your life is the most crucial issue, because that’s what drives a person and that is what should drive you to the best future you could ever have.
There are a few things that you should concentrate in this journey.
- Never Give Up
- Know who are your “Real” and “Fake” Friends.
- Imagine yourself in 10 more years.
You see, You should be a wishful thinker and hope for the better through perseverance. Once you have mastered it, no counter force will or can Let you down.
This is what I wrote in 2020. It’s 2024, a lot of things have changed. Although I would cut the list to just one, may be two, three…
Never Give Up !
Not Every person you meet should be a friend !
Jesus is Lord over All!
It’s so easy to sit on the other side and tell others to hurry up. You barely know what it’s like to be the person who is struggling. As of today, I have learned a lot about talking to people and choosing to be kind to them. How to understand peoples emotion to the best of my ability and to reflect on them. Personally, I have failed to do this countless times, but I strive to mold in to this person, I can hardly imagine. I anticipate that this would be major hurdle in the your personal journey if you want to reach people is different ways.
I’d like to remind myself of a memory printed in my mind, vividly. Out of many healthcare professions, I wanted to be a doctor, and I will explain why but that’s for a different article.
After finishing A levels, I took a gap year. I was 22. Looking back at it, it would be correct to say that I was juggler, balancing luck and faith with my future, and I am still one. I started to work as a Health Care Assistant in a Nursing Home. This was to have a better understanding of the clinical environments I will be working and to support myself with some cash. A year after, I applied for a receptionist role. Got rejected 8 times and finally got a job in a busy GP practice. Boy, did I learn, what faith is!
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I am so excited to share the things and experiences I had to learn by force as it was required of me inorder to be a efficient worker and overall someone dependable, which is an important quality to have. Again, it’ll be for another day.
Contrasting the work I did as a carer (HCA), to being a receptionist. I used totally different skills and this showed me also how malleable I have to be. As a carer, you need team work but most of the people I worked with had little to no impact with the work I did. It was not significant to me, but it might have been at that time. I had to be with the elderly resident, support them in any way and write the observation in a book. This was pretty easy. It’s physically draining, yet very simple. I am not implying working as a carer is an easy job in any way. I am just saying that the duties involving a carer were things almost anybody can easily learn, from my experience.
But, as a member in the reception team, I am constantly required to communicate my thoughts and ideas to the team, however silly they are, I must articulate them in a way people can understand, which was a bit difficult to me, but I managed to do that well. But along the way, I think I became more clumsy. I was not sharp as I started. This might be because, in the coming few years, I have to be on point, 24/7 when I start my course. So, subconsciously my body is trying to rest, but who knows?
My learning curve as a receptionist wasn’t that similar to a carer because, different skills were required to maintain that character. Being interested in maths helped for sure. I saw how those who were very experienced in that admin team approached to help people. Their problem solving skills were around the following:
- Taking pt’s history- thoroughly reading and having a basic understanding of the past and present and how it’s related to the patient’s query.
- Knowing where patient’s files are located
- What are all kinds of appointments
- What are repeat medication and acute medication
Currently, I can only think of this, but this way of investigation was very foreign to me. Working for 8 months, I think I have done well including this in my skill set as I realised working as a receptionist is a form of extension to who a doctor is. As we are dealing with parts of the health plan for the patient. I personally am interested in going straight to the diagnoses and other things, which will be the full plan.
In the workplace, you will meet who will be your friends, and also people who will stay collegues. This is an important distinction to have. Since, the way you treat people is based on who you perceive them to be. But, ideally we should forgive each other and hope for the best, but sad to say, not everybody thinks this way.
Forgiveness in the work place
I got training for several weeks and the workplace had different age groups working together, obviously, with this the teaching style would be different. Some arrogant, some kind, some understanding, some very impatient and you can fill the rest. But regardless, my goal was to be on point every single time, like a student in a classroom, but soon I lost the grip, which was terrible. As you know, it’s you who decide how you should be perceived. I realised how crucial it is to speak up on time, to voice your thoughts, so people know to dial down when they speak to you. This is non-verbal respect when you speak to others. If you are making jokes all the times, what do you expect, except to be called a joker. So, wise words friends!
Jesus teaches us to judge righteously, this involves to see your faults first before you correct others. You have to obey to what He says. That means, forgiving those who might hurting, not forgetting.
Who do you think you are to be this perfect, when you yourselves can’t even hold up to that standard. (This includes me). Being a Christian doesn’t mean you should be silent, infact, you must be bold like Paul was when preaching Jesus to the Jews. Being a high priest himself, he debated high ranking religious leaders for the faith that was gifted to him. You don’t have to look at this religiously, but as a fact of history.
Therefore, be grateful to what you have, and when you pray, believe that you received it. Of course, if it in God’s will, he will grant you it. A lot of lessons to be taught, struggles to go through but you could do all that with a little faith. I am talking about the kind, that healed the paralytic in Jesus’s ministry.
Finally, my brothers and sisters. I think experience teaches you a lot about life and perseverance. My wish for all of you is the same; to pray and ask Jesus to guide you through his Holy Spirit in the workplace and out, in everything you do. That you may see him in fullness, to understand that to work is to serve Him, to help others is to glorify him, to be selfless means to deny yourself everyday and to carry your cross. Although this is an article, I think the last part might be for me, more than for you.
