If you don’t inspect, don’t expect.

Managers are always taught to delegate and pass down responsibilities so that they can handle the bigger things in the organisation. Delegation is always part of the key factor to a successful leadership.

It is very easy to delegate, asking somebody to do the job is almost like a second nature. To some, it is a “delegate and forget”. Human tends to show its laziness when it comes to delegation.

“Just make it happen”, so said the boss. But when the result is being delivered, he is angry that your result does not meet his expectation. Sounds familiar ?

Everything rise and fall under leadership. If you, as a manager, want to see the result you desires, the key is constant inspection/guidance/supervision. If you do not inspect their progress, don’t expect a good result. Sorry but it is your fault for not ensuring things don’t go wrong, not the one under you.

True delegation comes after numerous inspection of different tasks, proving consistent good results from an individual and therefore able to expect consistent delivery from the same person with lesser supervision in the future.

So the next time you have a chance to handle a project or lead a team, remember, if you don’t inspect, don’t expect.

Waiting for a miracle…

No matter how successful or contented the person is, there is always something that everybody needs….a miracle.

A miracle to clear all the debts, a miracle to make good a relationship, a miracle to heal somebody, a miracle to have a baby or a miracle to fight against some disease….Something which we as human cannot handle any further, that we need the unseen power to help us in that area.

I’m not talking about sitting there and waiting for a miracle, I’m not referring to lazy people who don’t do anything to their life. I am looking at people who tried their very best of their capabilities, who tried every means and ways, who tried all that he/she can and yet not able to see the results desired.

When all things failed, when you are down at the valley, when you lost all your hopes, your dreams, your desires…the last bit of your positive cell will cries out deeply and hope for miracle to happen.

When you are at that stage of life, what do you do? Well, most of them can’t bring themselves to do anything else, their whole life seems to come to a halt and the flipping to the next chapter will not be possible without concluding the current one.

Waiting for a miracle. This is the hardest part. If you ever reach this stage of your life, understand this, this will not last forever.

Every beginning of a story, there is always the last chapter. Every performance will comes with a closing. Every sad song will ends with its last key. And don’t worry, you will not be waiting for that miracle forever.

Somewhere down the road, something will happen to you. Somebody came along and brighten up your spirit, giving you a new perspective, asking you to look at this chapter in a different light. Or something will happen that caused you to move on and suddenly you felt silly why you wasted your whole chapter waiting for something that might not happen. Or it could be that miracle that you hoped for came to past after your last positive cell died.

Well, to summarize, this is the journey of life. As tough as it might seen, it encapsulate and formulate your life story.

Everybody has a life story to tell. Looking back, there will always be your usual Ups and Downs. There will always be a stage where you thought you almost couldn’t make it in life. There will always be a stage where you celebrating your greatest success without realising that fews years down the road, you are going to be even more successful.

And as for this stage of waiting, you are right, it is yet another stage. As hard as it might be, it is the same stage as you are waiting for your school exam results 10 years ago. It is the same stage when you are waiting for your doctor’s report 5 years ago. The stage of waiting.

We might not have all the answers to our life story. But while we are waiting..don’t give up on life because I think your life is not giving up on you yet.

Your wait will soon be over.

My friend once said, “Life goes on…”.

Yes, most importantly life MUST goes on…your life.  

Inspired by Inspirations

A dying fish had been lying in the middle of the deep ocean since April 2006. Nature seems to protect it from its prey for one full year.

Out there, a big slice of bread was floating around. It was an unusual bread, the fish heard that some said it might be the “bread of life”.

Suddenly it forced its body towards the bread. Soon the bread slowly made its way into its mouth. The fish chewed and chewed and suddenly the breath of life zoomed into its lung! The dying fish felt energized again! Still amazed by how such miracle can happen, it dashed across the ocean, swam faster than the speeding bullet, gave a strong jump, flew itself out of the water, heads up and cried out, “I AM ALIVE!!”

Well, in case you are abit slow, that dying fish was me. It has been more than a year that I pen anything down on blog.

All of us had always been waiting for some inspirations from somewhere. Something to shake us out of our lazy bones and to do the things we always intended to do, at least, to be inspired to do them. Well, I have news for you. Inspirations don’t come to you, you have seek out yourself.

The truth is, if you look carefully around, inspirations are everywhere. It doesn’t necessarily have to be from some great public speaker, it doesn’t have to be found in a Self-help book. All it takes is for you to make that decision, to find it. If you want something to be done, like writing a book or composing a song, you don’t need to wait for inspirations to hit you, you need to seek them out. It requires…yes you are right, your efforts.

Your initial action/effort probably is not going to be very inspiring, you might end up forcing yourself to sit in front of the piano and punching keys. But as you move along, you will be amazed by the sudden surge of inspirations rush through your spines and all of the sudden, you are on your way to a great song composer!

Inspiration comes from within, from you that is. So, if you are still that dying fish in the middle of the ocean, don’t wait for that bread of life to come to you, swim towards it.