Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Marble's here to speak some stuff.She has indeed learnt a lot from being a leader in her cca. It's the best experience she'd ever had. I've been down for the past two weeks and i realised the reason why. It was simply because i angst--far too much. No doubt it is a norm for teenagers like us to angst and neither is it something wrong, but i realised that angsting far too much is very bad and nothing comes out of it, you just waste your time, make your day bad and waste your life away. When angst creeps upon me, i simply lose my cool--totally. I lose my cool, i hate life, and i vent my frustrations and anger on people around me. My life would seem to be so so so dark, as if everything is collapsing. But later i realised that i was simply making life miserable for myself. Why angst so much? It's totally no use. Why not use the time i used for angsting, to do something more positive and productive, like carrying out the orders which can bring the club up? I've learnt, through the experience with my committee members for the past two weeks that encouragement is something very very important. When someone encourages me, i feel very motivated. Light just appears in front of me and the drive simply surfaces within me. Therefore i learnt that i should, too, encourage others, show my support for them. This would definitely help them, like how they helped me. Something definitely cannot be carried out successfully if the communication system within our own committee system is a failure. Yes, all the committee members MUST know everything that is going on, so that should anything happen, the support of the committee would always be there. After reflecting, i realised that the main reason for the failure of the secondary four farewell party was due to the lack of communication within the commitee itself. don't try to be a superhero and handle everything yourself. get your committee members. believe that they will be there to support you and serve the club. trust is very very important. Trust them, but do not neglect your duties to affirm that everything is in place. Similarly, gaining the trust of your members for you is equally important as well. You need to let them trust you, if possible, take the initiative to talk to them more, create a bond among all of you and you will naturally gain the mutual truat and understanding. Letting them know what is going on is also something very vital to the group. You need to let them know they can rely on you and they you will let them know everything that is going on, let them know they are vital to the club, the group, and they will contribute. Oh, and CALL, don't sms. smsing always cause loads of problems and miscommunications. XD Clearing our doubts with the teachers/leaders is definitely something that a lot of people lack. we always nod our head through and we end up being blur like a sotong, we act like we know but in actual fact do not know a single bit of what we are supposed to do and very easily, screw the entire thing up. and the root of the failure would be one hopelessly stupid reason--You were lazy to make an extra phone call to clarify your doubts. I realised that we should seek help from our seniors and experienced people if we have to. Ask them about how to approach a situation, or how to do about planning something. Their advice would help, a lot a lot. Let go of your ego and seek advice! Yes, do not handle everything yourself, but do not only pass down duties to others. We have to do something to prove that we are worthy of leading them. Only would they be willing to support you and serve you. Never do lip service either. Do it. Actions speak louder than words. Don't be lazy. Plan it, carry it out, if it fails, learn from it and apply what we've learnt onto other aspects of our life, or into the other activities that we further plan. Believe in yourself, as well as other. This is the most important thing to me, as a leader. Believe. You can do it. Alright. I talked enough. but i'm extremely glad i learnt so much from the past two weeks. i must thank miss koh for the guidance too. =] Marble--Prepared to Soar.
Simplicity overrode @ 8:34 PM
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