My Phase of ExistenceDecember 22, 2007 5:35 am

One for all and all for one. This is what we heard  in a certain team and it  boost their confidence as a group  Building a team and being a team is not easy, each member must be able to meet with the team’s goals and aims. It must be cooperative and being responsible to every work to do. There are some characteristics to have, for a team to be effective and come up with a good result. One of this is mutual trusts. This is not build only for a second or minute, it takes time to be built and only a short time to be destroyed. Mutual trust in a certain way that they believe one another. They believe in their potential and abilities that every member possesses. For one situation that you had a group, a new formed group, and each one of you had given assign works to do and you did not make it, your co-members believe in your abilities  that you can make and it was failed maybe next time they will not give you  another works to do because you failed them. They don’t trust you anymore.

Building a team should have mutual understanding and teamwork. Expressing one’s feeling, opinion and queries are necessary  to have a better works in which every member respects each other. And with this purpose it will help them to collect and to gain their knowledge on what is the goal of their work. Mutual support is build when every member or group has genuine concern for its co-member where in everyone is ready to give time and energy in protecting and accomplishing the task given. Genuine communication gives emphasis to the quality and openness and authenticity of the member of the words she/he says or speaks about, where there is equal evaluation, no biases to whatever information given. Accepting conflicts as normal and working them is differences among members, still with their goals they are united. Every conflict must be talked or discussed by the group to arrive a good and decisive solution to the problem. Lastly, since members of a group have its own individual differences, they must be respected so that every member is given a chance to speak out their side, and it will lead harmoniously. They are committed to their team and they are willing to do the best and share their abilities to the group. One for all and all for one should maintain in a team.

My Phase of Existence 5:34 am

Lord Jesus, when you lived and worked and talked amongst men in Palestine, they called your Teacher.

Help me to remember the greatness of the work which has been given to me to do; that I work with the most precious material in the world, the mind of youth. Help me always to remember that I am making marks upon that mind which time will never rub out.
Give me patience with those who are slow to learn, and even with those who refuse to learn. When I have to exercise discipline, help me to do so in sterness and yet in love. Keep me from the sarcastic and the biting tongue, and help me always to encourage those who are doing their best, even if that best is not very good.

Help me to help my students, not only to store things in their memories, but to be able to use their minds, and to think for themselves. And amidst all the worries and the frustrations of my job, help me to remember that the future of the nation and of the world is in my hands. Amen.