Gelagat Dan Harapan

“ Seringkali kita dengar rungutan  tetang gelagat negatif penjawat awam ketika menjalankan tugas perkhidmatan kepada orang ramai.”

Ramai penjawat awam yang berkata: Kerja memang berat, bosan, susah, penat, stress.

 Semuanya negatif.

 Dan orang ramai pula terlalu mendesak dan tidak faham tugas penjawat awam.

Benarkah begitu?

Ramai yang rasa tak seronok bekerja. Tak puashati dengan  bidang pekerjaan mereka. Apakah kerana kerja memang semakin susah atau ada sebab-sebab lain?

Barangkali, kita sendiri yang jadi penyebab seronok dan tak seronoknya kerja kita.

Atau barangkali kita tidak bekerja dengan sebaik-baiknya kerana kita tidak suka akan kerja yang kita buat. Sebab itu kita jadi stress.

 Mungkin juga kita tak  nampak bahagian-bahagian positif kerja kita itu. Kita nampak yang negatifnya saja.

Sebenarnya kita sendirilah yang jadikan diri kita seronok atau tidak seonok bekerja. Ini barangkalai menentukan bagus atau tak bagusnya tugas yang kita buat.   

Apa sebenarnya yang kita harapkan bila   menjawat seseuatu jawatan?  Apa maknanya kerja yang kita lakukan  itu?

 Mungkin yang diharapkan:

1.    Gaji lebih tinggi

2.    Tugas yang menyeronokkan

3.    Suasana kerja yang lebih ceria

4.    Merangsang pemikiran

5.    Kepelbagaian  tugas yang bukan rutin

6.    Bos yang bertimbangrasa

7.    Waktu bertugas yang lebih fleksibel

8.    Bebas bekerja mengikut cara sendiri

9.    Kerja yang berprestij

10.  Faedah dan ganjaran tambahan

11.  Peluang kenaikan pangkat

12.  Tugasan penting dan bermanfaat

13.  Kursus kemahiran yang sesuai

14.  Tugas yang sesuai dengan kebolehan sendiri

15.  Tempat tugas yang memungkinkan bertemu jodoh 

Apakah itu sahaja yang diharapkan? Apakaah jika harapan-harapan itu dapat dipenuhi, maka kita akan
seronok bekerja dan hasil kerja kita lebih baik?

Harapan yang ke-15 itu mungkin agak keterlaluan!

Apapun harapannya, anggaplah kerja sebagai satu amanah, satu ibadah:

Bersyukurlah kerana kita mempunyai pekerjaan! Ramai yang telah kehilangan pekerjaan. Malah  lebih ramai yang terus menganggur.

Silap Mudah Maaf Payah

Orang kata, buat silap memang mudah, tetapi minta maaf memang susah.

Sebenarnya, tidaklah susah untuk memohon maaf. Boleh dicuba, begini:-

 Ikhlas :

Orang dapat tahu kalau kita tidak ikhlas. Banyak buruk daripada baiknya. Mohon maaf dengan ikhlas itu satu tanggungjawab dan memberi kebaikan.

Mohonlah maaf dengan ikhlas, tidak disertai dengan sebarang syarat, “tiada udang di sebalik batu”.

2. Jangan cuba “menegakkan benang basah” ketika memohon maaf:

Jangan sibuk menjelaskan kenapa dan apa yang hendak dilakukan. Kesannya kelihatan tidak seperi ingin memohon maaf. Seperti tidak bersedia untuk melaksanakan tanggungjawab itu.

Kata-kata yang tepat, ringkas dan padat lebih mudah difahami. Penerangan yang berjela-jela akan mencetuskan halangan dan gangguan.

3. Beriltizam untuk berubah :

Jika diri kita tidak pasti untuk mengubah sikap, maknanya kita tidaklah bersungguh-sungguh untuk memohon maaf.

Jangan sekadar “melepaskan batuk di tangga”. Misalnya, jika kita tidak komited mengubah sikap yang selalu lewat sampai ke tempat bertugas, janganlah berkata “Maaf kerana saya datang lewat”. Ini akan menjadi “cakap tak serupa bikin” dalam proses memohon maaf.

Sepatutnya berterima kasihlah kepada orang yang menegur kelewatan kita hadir itu. Mulakan dengan: “Terima kasih kerana mengingatkan saya supaya tidak lewat sampai ke tempat kerja. Saya hargai teguran itu”. Kemudian, mohon maaflah.

4. Nyatakanlah kemaafan itu secara berhati-hati :

Pastikan orang tidak keliru kenapa mohon maaf itu perlu kita lakukan.

Contoh dua cara menyatakan kemaafan yang amat berbeza kesannya: 1) “Kebetulan saya lalu di sini, jadi saya singgahlah nak minta maaf”, dan 2) “Sengaja saya datang ke sini untuk memohon maaf kerana saya mengambil berat tentang peraturan yang ditetapkan”.

Jangan “seperti talam dua muka” atau berpura-pura.

Jika kita memang mahu mengubah sikap dan ingin mematuhi segala peraturan kerja, tentulah akan menggembirakan semua pihak.

5. Bersedialah menghadapi kemungkinan reaksi yang tidak diduga :

Meskipun kadang-kadang permohonon maaf itu diterima dengan senang hati, namun tidak semua orang bersikap begini.

Kadang-kadang orang bertindak dengan cara yang berbeza, ada yang selamba, ada yang tersenyum sinis. “Rambut sama hitam, hati lain-lain”.

Tidak mengapa. Itu semua di luar kawalan kita. Kita sudah memohon maaf. Sudah kita laksanakan tanggungjawab itu sebaik-baiknya.

Mungkin dia akan menerimanya ketika itu, kemudian nanti, atau tidak mahu menerimanya langsung. Tidak kiralah apapun, permohonan maaf itu sudah kita laksanakan.

Selebihnya terpulanglah kepada mereka.

TAK BIMBANGLAH!

TAK BIMBANGLAH!

1. Bimbang? Apa yang dibimbangkan?

2. Secara semulajadi, perempuan lebih bimbang daripada lelaki.

3. Kadang-kadang orang bimbang sampai hilang akal.

4. Melampau sangatlah bimbangnya tu.

5. Kalau bimbang sangat, tukarkan bimbang yang negatif tu. Jadikan positif. Eh senangnya cakap!

6. Bukan semua rasa bimbang tu tak bagus. Rasa bimbang boleh jadi semacam “amaran awal tsunami”.

7. Kadang-kadang semua perkara tentang orang lain pun kita nak bimbang juga. Perempuan terutamanya, 2 kali lebih bimbang daripada orang lelaki. Ini tak elok utk kesihatan diri.

8. Kongsilah rasa bimbang tu. Separuh masaalah akan hilang kalau kita kongsi dengan orang lain yang kita percaya.

9. Lebih baik kalau kita dapat maklumat jelas. Kalau berkaitan kerja, dapatkan daripada orang yg ahli dalam bidang tu. Kalau bimbang tentang kesihatan, dapatkan maklumat daripad doktor lah!

10. Kalau segalanya terurus, mungkin rasa bimbang tu kurang. Bimbang tugasan tak siap? Uruslah sebaik mungkin. Beban tugas? kalau boleh delegate, agihkanlah.

11. Percaya tak, bersenam dan beriadah tu boleh hilangkan bimbang. Sibukkan diri dengan aktiviti riadah. Badan letih, wah seronoknya tidur. Bangun tidur, mungkin lebih relax dan rasa bimbang pun dah kurang.

12. Percaya tak, bimbang boleh bentuk pola fikiran negatif! Kena positiflah! Mindset biar positif selalu. Nanti rasa lebih sihat tau.

13. Macam nilah. Ambil sebiji gelas. Isi air, penuh. Kemudian curah hingga tinggal separuh. (Anggaplah separuh kebimbangan tu dah dapat buang!).Lepas tu cuba tengok gelas tu. Tinggal separuh. Cuba tanya diri sendiri. Gelas tu separuh kosong ke, separuh penuh? Itu boleh tentukan pola fikiran kita. Eh apa bendanya ni. Ala, cuba dulu.

14. Kalau lebih rasional kan bagus. Cuba rekodkan, apa benda yang bimbang sangat tu. Nanti check balik. Percayalah, tak semua yang kita bimbang tu akan berlaku. Hanya dalam fikiran kita saja!

15. Kalu tak boleh juga camne? Masih juga bimbang?. Macam2 dah buat. Berdoa pun sudah. Tak mahu hilang juga !. Ntahlah. Jangan bimbang… gantikan perkataan bimbang tu dengan perkataan khuatir, dan baca balik posting mantan ni! Sambil tu, jangan bimbang ye….

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POINTS TO PONDER

1. Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own." -- Nikos Kazantzakis

2. "Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers." -- Richard Bach

3. "A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

4. "Thought flows in terms of stories -- stories about events, stories about people, and stories about intentions and achievements. The best teachers are the best storytellers. We learn in the form of stories." -- Frank Smith

5. "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming." -- Goethe

6. "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope and confidence." -- Helen Keller

7. "Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another." -- Marva Collins

8. "In education it isn't how much you have committed to memory or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know and it's knowing how to use the information you get." --William Feather

9. A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron." -- Horace Mann

10. "They may forget what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel." - Carol Buchner

11. "I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." -- Christopher Reeve

12. "Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny." -- Frank Outlaw

13. "If a seed of a lettuce will not grow, we do not blame the lettuce. Instead, the fault lies with us for not having nourished the seed properly." - Buddhist proverb

14. "The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others." -- Tyron Edwards

15. "Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers." --Josef Albers

16. Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation." -- John F. Kennedy

16. "Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners." --Ken Blanchard

17. "If you want to live more, you must master the art of appreciating the little everyday blessings of life. This is not altogether a golden world but there are countless gleams of gold to be discovered in it." --Henry Alfred Porter

18. "Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve." -- Mary Kay Ash

19. "One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done." -- Marie Curie

12. "Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three." --Confucius

13. "Life is no brief candle for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." -- George Bernard Shaw

14. "No matter how he may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world." -- Frances Willard

15. We should not teach children the sciences but give them a taste for them." -- Jean Jacques Rousseau

16. "Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants." -- John Gardner

17. "The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind." -- Kahlil Gibran

18. "A very wise old teacher once said: "I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh." He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group of human beings enjoying its existence." -- Gilbert Highet

19. "To ensure that your work is also a play, I recommend that you develop a personal mission statement. This will help you find what it is to enjoy so much that you lose track of time when you're doing it." -- Ken Blanchard

20 "Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered. It is something molded." -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

21."It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted." -Linda Conway

22. "The greatest sign of a success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." -- Maria Montessori

23. "There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one teaches them anything." --Maria Montessori

24. "We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction." -- Malcom Gladwell

25. "You must train the children to their studies in a playful manner and without any air of constraint with the further object of discerning more readily the natural bent of their respective characters." -- Plato

26. "Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything." -- Mary Hemingway

27. "As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works." -- John C. Maxwell

28. "Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire." --William Butler Yeats

29. "If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, the excitement, and the mystery of the world we live in." --Rachel Carlson

30. "Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre." -- Gail Goldwin

31. "No one but us ourselves-no one can and no one way. We ourselves must walk the path, teachers merely show the way." -- Nancy Wilson Ross

32. "There are two kinds of people; those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there." -- Indira Gandhi

33. "One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child." -- Carl Jung

34. "Every time you wake up and ask yourself, "What good things am I going to do today?," remember that when the sun goes down at sunset, it takes a part of your life with it." --Indian proverb

35. Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it." -- William Haley

37. "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

38 ."Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired." -- Mother Theresa

39. "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

40. "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." -- Benjamin Franklin

41. "I challenge you to make your life like a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk." -- Anthony Robbins

42. "A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank...but the world may be a better place because I made a difference in the life of a child." -- Forest Witchcraft