Like many of us, I am not perfect. Sometimes we did not achieve what we want. So recently I met up with my ex-client, happened to bumped to him on the escalator.
Very nice person, very godly and wonderful.
And as we chat a little of guilt still creep in inside me.
Then suddenly another lady came approaching us, smiled and shook my hand. "XXXX, right?" she said, to my amazement that she knew my name, while I was trying hard to guess hers.
My ex-client quipped, " We got married because of that CRM project..."
I was stunned really stunned. Speechless.
"At least something good came out of it, right" he smiled.
Yes, I think God is amazing. He can make, create something good out of some circumstances that we deem is not good.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Saturday, April 09, 2011
Looking at the context, bigger picture
These days, since I joined a new company for almost a year, I have been learning new things. Not too much in knowledge and hard skills, in fact due to most of the time spent in fire fighting I almost learn none.
But I learn a lot about Emotional Intelligence. I am now still reading Daniel Goleman's book. Also just read a very short book about NLP, and I quite like some of the concepts. For example, putting things in context and defining a state. Last time I used to easily annoyed of office politics, some petty people sent stupid emails, worse cc to everyone, to the bosses. Normally I could feel tired for weeks for those episodes. If not, I would try to stage a revenge.
I now try to look at the context and bigger picture. A sarcastic, knife-sharp cutting emails from colleagues, means absolutely nothing in the ocean of life. The big picture of life's journey, where my wife, kids, parents, and God is in the pictire, looks much bigger and overshadow that kind of incident. The context is that ' as you grow old, you'll realise you could not be too petty over small matters'. The earth grave is not too far away, and we may lose the big picture of God's plan, His thought, His dream about our life, should we are too engrossed in small matters.
If we look at the big picture, things that inject angst in our lifes, like 'fear of losing job', fear of poverty, fear of humiliation - it really does not matter. Life is short, and once you cross over 35, you are more likely to be reminded of the short term rental we have on earth. It is now, that I can understand more, why it was wrong for the Israelites to cry over meats, waters, and other convenience stuffs, when they were marching to the Promised Land, the Holy City of God.
But I learn a lot about Emotional Intelligence. I am now still reading Daniel Goleman's book. Also just read a very short book about NLP, and I quite like some of the concepts. For example, putting things in context and defining a state. Last time I used to easily annoyed of office politics, some petty people sent stupid emails, worse cc to everyone, to the bosses. Normally I could feel tired for weeks for those episodes. If not, I would try to stage a revenge.
I now try to look at the context and bigger picture. A sarcastic, knife-sharp cutting emails from colleagues, means absolutely nothing in the ocean of life. The big picture of life's journey, where my wife, kids, parents, and God is in the pictire, looks much bigger and overshadow that kind of incident. The context is that ' as you grow old, you'll realise you could not be too petty over small matters'. The earth grave is not too far away, and we may lose the big picture of God's plan, His thought, His dream about our life, should we are too engrossed in small matters.
If we look at the big picture, things that inject angst in our lifes, like 'fear of losing job', fear of poverty, fear of humiliation - it really does not matter. Life is short, and once you cross over 35, you are more likely to be reminded of the short term rental we have on earth. It is now, that I can understand more, why it was wrong for the Israelites to cry over meats, waters, and other convenience stuffs, when they were marching to the Promised Land, the Holy City of God.
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