All of us are excited about Friday. It means we have survive one more week and weekends are just around the corner for us to spend time with our family or simply doing what you love most. Hopefully it also means that you have had a productive week that you could be proud of.
Here in Australia, everybody is more relax even in the workplace and sometimes towards the end of the day, we would gather around together with our boss drinking wine or beer and just simply unwind for the week. Another reason I'm particularly excited about Friday is that I get to attend the public talk given by Ajahn Brahm in the evening. It starts with half an hour guided meditation and follow by his talks on various topics of life. Unfortunately it is the rains season right now and he has gone for the Rains Retreat in his monastery until October.
Anyway, Friday is a good day for us to reflect upon what we have achieved throughout the week. Is there something that we have learnt or do we feel that we have grow intellectually and emotionally? If something bad happened this week, instead of complaining about why it happened to you, why not think about what you could learn from the experience.
No man is an island and we are all surrounded by other people in our workplaces and lives. You would be a very lucky person indeed if you are surrounded by positive people. But we don't usually have the choice especially when it comes to working for people. You will be assigned by your boss or superior to work on certain project with other people. It is great if that person has the positive spirit to work as a team. But it is always not the case, isn't it? It is always someone who doesn't want to do the work but simply manipulating others to complete the tasks and she would then end up getting all the credit. So what should you do when you have someone like that in your team? Should you complain it to your boss? No, it will never work and your boss would think that you are behaving unprofessionally by taking things to personal. The only thing you could do is to focus on the project at hand and do not let your manipulative partner sways you from your attention. She would even push all her tasks for you to finish it. That's wonderful! Now you have the chance to learn more things by doing all these extra works. You will gradually find yourself growing professionally and soon you will become more valuable to your boss because of your increased capability. It is good to go the extra mile and overachieve what you promised to do. I hear you screaming now: "What about my lazy partner who didn't do anything and end up sharing my credit?" Ajahn Brahm has spoken about this on many occasions that we should not seek revenge. He said Karma will eventually sort it out. You see by pushing all the work to you, she end up learning nothing. And if she continues to do that over a long period of time, she will soon realize that she have nothing else to do in the office and that will make her redundant. There is a big possibility that she maybe sacked by the boss. So always have the bigger picture in your mind and not be too calculative about who should do what because your boss will eventually find out.
Like what Ajahn Brahm said, be kind to every situation that you are in. By being kind, you are generating positive energies from you that might eventually influence other people around you. Look for positive things around you when you go to work today. You may bump into someone you don't know on the street, simply smile or greet them, they would usually greet back. When you make them feel good, they then go on to treat other people better and these other people then producing further positive energies around them. This is what I call positivity goes viral.
Be kind to everyone and beings. If you can't do it everyday, at least just do it on a Friday and see what it makes you feel. Weekend is coming, so cheer up and enjoy life!
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