tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72734158233883574662024-03-13T13:08:38.154-07:00Get Out of My HeadLife is a series of values conflicts but don't avoid experiences that will shape and transform you! Your future self must be stronger, wiser, and more capable than your current self.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273415823388357466.post-27926207282357021012020-12-04T06:14:00.000-08:002020-12-04T06:14:01.955-08:00Mental Health, What Can You Do As Managers?<p style="text-align: justify;">Yesterday, I had a chance to talk with my member and as expected, he is struggling to cope with the pace of the project. The fast pace of this project and number of issues we are dealing everyday has caused him to question his own capability. I used to think like that before and of course I could relate to that. Luckily he reached out to me and I've advised him to proceed with his plan ie. to meet up with my GM and share his struggles. Honestly, I'm not sure how I could help him as I know the challenges awaits them whenever they decided to join this team. But as superior, what can you do to ease the process?</p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><i>Learn about mental illness</i> - minimal thing you can do is to know how to spot early warning signs and manage stress. This at least will help you be more empathy and build the trust.</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><i>Workplace stress is not a myth</i> - Majority of cases I'm hearing recently, caused by work-related stress. Even today during our monthly safety talk, people posted about how their workload causing the stress and working from home somehow making this even messier. So, be supportive and don't discount stress causing from workplace as everyone has different stress capacity.</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><i>Monitor your team performance</i> - I'm not sure about others but whenever I notice my team slowly becomes silent during team discussion, I will quickly schedule a session with them. Why? Because sometimes people just don't want to bounce ideas anymore because they become absent minded.</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><i>Create a safety environment </i>- regular check-ins with your staffs could help to build a trust and mutual understanding. Work with the team to avoid social stigma about mental health.</li></ol><div style="text-align: justify;">There are lot more you can do to help but let's start with this first, okay?</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xB6nJOiHm7M/X8pD-z6kBaI/AAAAAAAAXeo/l9jKP_97zcgIC1qPW-7IvzBIr0_IeXupQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1400/053018-Mental-Health.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1400" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xB6nJOiHm7M/X8pD-z6kBaI/AAAAAAAAXeo/l9jKP_97zcgIC1qPW-7IvzBIr0_IeXupQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/053018-Mental-Health.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273415823388357466.post-45621948410437088232020-11-28T01:30:00.005-08:002020-11-28T01:31:23.181-08:00Yearly Appraisal Blues<p style="text-align: justify;">How will you rate yourself? After a year, most of the employees will need to go through an appraisal activities to measure their performance for that year. Some will struggle and some will consider this as part of their job requirements. Being one of the appraiser is not an easy task. You are evaluating others and as someone who has a very high expectation towards others, your staffs may not be the best among others. After years of experience, I need to calibrate on how I viewing others - keep telling myself that everyone is doing their best at their own capabilities. Only then I'll not feeling frustrated with them and not blaming myself for not trained them better. Well, self blame is the easiest route to depression.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-evAefTVyGyw/X8IYmGmmFpI/AAAAAAAAXZg/qapMB0p85uUhdIfV6N3J68JL4928GgxBACLcBGAsYHQ/s635/annual-appraisal.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="357" data-original-width="635" height="225" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-evAefTVyGyw/X8IYmGmmFpI/AAAAAAAAXZg/qapMB0p85uUhdIfV6N3J68JL4928GgxBACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h225/annual-appraisal.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;">So, what are I'm looking for when assessing my team's performance? As a team, I believe everyone has done their job but now need to assess them individually. So, my comments to them when we having one-to-one sessions earlier were, what is the outcomes of your KPI and how well you differentiate yourself from others? Why am asking this? I want them to really look into their contributions to the team success and avoid free rider from this team. Maybe this is not the right way to do things but when you are dealing with the group of people who are really love to take other people credit, then you need to be strict with them because sometimes, not necessarily those loud people is the ones that do the job.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273415823388357466.post-28743634142396305832020-11-27T10:05:00.005-08:002020-11-27T10:19:41.688-08:00Ultrawide, 4K & Black Friday...<div style="text-align: justify;">Post 11.11 mega sale, I've been thinking about buying an external laptop for my home office. The problem is I do have a 24 inch monitor but been trying to find a justification why I need to buy a new monitor. First, I think an external monitor with USB type C connector will be a great addition to my gadgets. I can easily connect & power up my HP laptop & Macbook without need to worry about cable management. But do I really need a new monitor at the first place?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Whenever I found myself in an excessive behaviours of spending money, this is like an alarm that I need to really think before make any new purchases. It takes me a while to notice this but whenever I'm in the great stress, online shopping is like a distraction to my work problems. I bought a lot of unnecessary things and after 1-2 weeks, I'll be giving those items to others. People are happy with this because they going to get free stuffs but but end of the month, all my salary will be used just to pay my credit card debts. So, sales is my greatest enemy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So, what I did, delay the purchases since I can't stop thinking about it. Leveraging on my overanalyze traits, I keep doing research about the items I wish to buy until becomes overwhelmed with the info. I know this is the not the good practise for someone who used to be a victim of overthinking but at least, could save some money for now.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HkR_7jRwLw0/X8E_aEDQ5CI/AAAAAAAAXY0/6j6GvBLYYi0mfTlHAd_FEQteJEmNjYvNgCLcBGAsYHQ/s924/83702_p2721q_responsive_module_01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="374" data-original-width="924" height="163" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HkR_7jRwLw0/X8E_aEDQ5CI/AAAAAAAAXY0/6j6GvBLYYi0mfTlHAd_FEQteJEmNjYvNgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h163/83702_p2721q_responsive_module_01.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Photo from Dell's website</i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">From normal gaming monitor to 2K, and then exploring 4K to ultrawide features, and to which brands are better: ended up, I'm yet to checkout the items from my shopping cart. Below are my shortlisted monitor for consideration:</div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">LG GL2780</i></b> - Best for my workflow and can connect with my PS4 as well. So, all rounder monitor for my need eventhough just a 2K resolution. But I need to wait for 12.12 sale to get better price for this monitor as I could save around MYR100 - MYR400.</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">Dell P2721Q</i></b> - 4K resolution and can power up my laptop/macbook with USB type C. Maybe not suitable for my PS4 but it's okay because I already have a dedicated TV panel for that. If I'm just using the monitor only for work and something could last for few years, this could be a good investment. Plus, Dell is slashing off the price this week due to Black Friday sale.</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">LG 29WK600</i></b> - Maybe I need to experience ultrawide monitor. Based on the review I have gathered from Youtubers and other reviewers, if I'm not planning to use this for gaming, then it's good enough for me as it will provide bigger space for my work. But, I've issue with the stand. I can't change the height.</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">BenQ EX2780Q</i></b> - The only reason why I'm considering this monitor is because of the sound system. But how this will improve my experience and productivity?</li></ol><div style="text-align: justify;">Black Friday sales not really do justice to my life. Hopefully, this weekend I'll survive or make the right purchase!</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273415823388357466.post-40372105853587934562020-11-24T21:00:00.000-08:002020-11-27T10:08:10.982-08:00That Winter, We Parted<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VaQ6xNa-TJI/X70bJwRHNcI/AAAAAAAAXOs/t-QaHAlwRIsuZBK1mMsMMqaAp6Ed9fdlACLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/maxresdefault.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VaQ6xNa-TJI/X70bJwRHNcI/AAAAAAAAXOs/t-QaHAlwRIsuZBK1mMsMMqaAp6Ed9fdlACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/maxresdefault.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Watched a great movie just now. It's about the story of a man who avenged the death of his girlfriend by taking everything by his own hand. His girlfriend was burned into death by the psychopath who thought by doing that was helping his brother to take the most beautiful pictures in the world but having that's not the case. Therefore, this guy started to plot the journey to punish those people by staging the second crime. I think that was the best plot twist I ever watched so far. The murderer burned into death exactly like the victim and her brother took the pictures of her while her soulmate witnessed the second act. Well, those people deserve to be punished. </div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">One thing I learnt about this movie is sometimes you have to take things into your hand and get it done as pace might be slow if you are waiting for others. </div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273415823388357466.post-67561065264220100652020-11-24T05:46:00.005-08:002020-11-24T06:10:55.923-08:00Start-Up<div style="text-align: justify;">Perhaps, the most hype korean drama right now is the Start-Up which majority of people has been inflicted with second hero syndrome. However, that's not why I'm jotting down my thoughts today. Watching this drama somehow bring back my earliest memories when my company started the digital journey. Hackathon, agile methodology, challenging the norms, digital savvy, prototyping to get highest ROI and many more. But because of this opportunity as well, I've learnt a lot of life lesson. Same goes for this drama. I could relate so much with the storyline and characters which includes:</div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>Digitalization aspiration</i></b> - it is not just about pursuing your dream. First, you need to know what is the business case you're trying to resolve. Doing digital is not about converting your manual works into automation of processes but it's also about transforming your organization. Plus, you need to balance the pace of you to scale up your digital products and closing the adoption gaps. This is the reason why we adopting agile methodology in order for us to quickly response to users feedback.</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>Team vs. teamwork</i></b> - you can select the best people to be part of your team but if the synergy between team is negative, it will reflected in your product and progress of your journey. Competition is a norm in digital projects and everyone trying to best version of themselves. Therefore, CEO or team lead roles is very crucial. Sometimes you need to make unpopular decisions and need to have the clear vision of your end state. Otherwise, you'll be overwhelmed with internal conflicts. Another tips, select best members based on the capabilities and expertise required for your projects or products. Everyone wants to do digital products because they think this is a glamour job but require hand holding throughout the journey. </li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>Hackathon to attract investor</i></b> - OMG, I can't express this well. Really love the excitement of doing hackathon. Eventhough I'm not the developer but I love the excited of trying to get the supports from your potential VC or investors. This is also the place where ideas & execution will be tested and a place where you could quickly assess people capabilities. From hackathon events, we manage to deploy a lot of digital tools and unlock billions of value creation.</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>Resistance to change</i></b> - Yes, we received this a lot. Until today we can't satisfy everyone. Especially when you start to cut down other people jobs but making their roles no longer relevant. But I think that is something inevitable. Digital just accelerating the process. Luckily, ever since we embarked on this journey, when everyone been asked to work from home, we have sufficient digital solutions to keep our business running. But, some people just couldn't see the benefits of this. But, this drama thought me a good lesson - sometimes it's about finding the sweet pace between innovation for the future and current reality. Don't view complaints as trouble but as opportunity to improve further. </li></ol><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gkNfg-TjXDw/X70UVWDBPJI/AAAAAAAAXN4/_Pk70dYlglMDwFoFQJ7SFfgz03qigTOuACLcBGAsYHQ/s1440/images.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gkNfg-TjXDw/X70UVWDBPJI/AAAAAAAAXN4/_Pk70dYlglMDwFoFQJ7SFfgz03qigTOuACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/images.jpeg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There are lot more I'm planning to share but maybe enough for now. If you put aside the love story, there are a lot of things you can learn from this korean drama. I'm highly recommend this.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273415823388357466.post-75787079557005022212020-11-16T16:00:00.000-08:002020-11-24T06:24:24.180-08:00Enjoy Your Life, Broaden Your World...<p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Don't judge others by your own standards.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>... perhaps the type who does better when praised. </i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>What good is anything if you're dead? </i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>If someone dies, there's another to replace him. </i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>The basics of work is put yourself in others' shoes. </i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>If you're reprimanded every time you do something, you'd feel like quiting. </i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>We live in an era where we ought to respect everyone's different working style. </i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Moreover, it doesn't mean that people who don't take days off would definitely produce results. </i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>When we were in school, we usually hang out with people with the same values, right?</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>That's a good thing, but for work we have to cooperate with people who have totally different way of thinking, just to accomplish one thing. That's why it's interesting. </i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Don't be a person who exists only for the company. Enjoy life. Meet all kind of people. Broaden your world. The accumulation of such experiences will lead to good results at work. </i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uFFvipHxke0/X70Xh6oV1mI/AAAAAAAAXOc/1z14zL__zjUMk3jtsn35pZHPtQNXVlTTgCLcBGAsYHQ/s900/bigstock-outcast-girl-60069143.jpg.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="882" data-original-width="900" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uFFvipHxke0/X70Xh6oV1mI/AAAAAAAAXOc/1z14zL__zjUMk3jtsn35pZHPtQNXVlTTgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/bigstock-outcast-girl-60069143.jpg.webp" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273415823388357466.post-39048058749276141082020-11-13T05:48:00.007-08:002020-11-24T06:16:53.398-08:00The Life of Gang-Tae<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YHWH8CByyuk/X70U5HmOCoI/AAAAAAAAXOA/j-EIwDERgpQ1OF9My3QJ0tAC7NBDy_uFwCLcBGAsYHQ/s740/itsokay-5.jpg.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="740" height="213" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YHWH8CByyuk/X70U5HmOCoI/AAAAAAAAXOA/j-EIwDERgpQ1OF9My3QJ0tAC7NBDy_uFwCLcBGAsYHQ/w320-h213/itsokay-5.jpg.webp" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I've been following Korean series in Netflix called <i>It's Okay to Not Be Okay</i>. The pace might too slow for certain people but I can relate to the storyline. It's sucks to always be the perfect gentleman and suppressed all the emotions you have inside. That's the price you have to pay when people set a high expectation on you. I used to be like that and keep reminding myself to balance it out. I need to love myself before I could help others. Gang-Tae experience the same things like me I guess. Always felt unwanted and unloved. His existence merely just to take care of others. Therefore, he stopped to has expectation on others. </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Last two years, when I was battling with depression, I used think there is no point for me to live anymore. If people just expected me to take care of them but let me take all the blames, then why should I be there for them. There is no more purpose for me to be around. I did stop having expectation on others but later, slowly I'm realise, the problem was not them but me. I was letting them to control my life and trying to please them. So first, I need to help myself first by finding my purpose in life. Have I found it? Haha, not quite yet but at least I know my long term goal. Second, I need to learn to celebrate small successes. Don't be hard to myself.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I'm not sure when I started to realise this but this project really help me to grow to be a better person. I'm far from perfect but I know my mistakes. I have to thank people who are patiently helping me to survive this challenges. I'd pushing them away but they stay. </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273415823388357466.post-68906444864170743842020-11-05T06:06:00.003-08:002020-11-24T06:15:44.731-08:0060 Seconds...<p style="text-align: justify;">Some people spend the rest of their day to prepare for 60 seconds of their job. Without fails, they keep delivering the expectations of their superior and dreaming to be someone big one day. Of course, not everyone is lucky with their life. You can't choose what type of family you are born into but you could always decide what type of person you turn out to be. Sometimes it's takes you less than 60 seconds to be non-believers. Therefore, every second is important in your daily life because that is your fuel to generate good deeds for afterlife. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0nXhi_jBfrE/X70VjFrq3eI/AAAAAAAAXOM/t3NbSLqmbx4ets6EouLcwHcNDUMVtbTtQCLcBGAsYHQ/s626/time-passes-dissolves-concept-vanishing-time_76506-67.jpg.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="417" data-original-width="626" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0nXhi_jBfrE/X70VjFrq3eI/AAAAAAAAXOM/t3NbSLqmbx4ets6EouLcwHcNDUMVtbTtQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/time-passes-dissolves-concept-vanishing-time_76506-67.jpg.webp" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7273415823388357466.post-8267357718014330092020-10-31T13:19:00.009-07:002020-11-24T06:32:01.228-08:00New Journey...<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Together with my family, we celebrated my birthday today. I'm not expecting anything as I'm really bad with date. Therefore, it's always fine with me if people not remembering my birthday. But today, after spent time together with my family, I realize how important to celebrate those moment with your loved ones. It's just a small celebration but somehow managed to make me smile all night. I'll cherish this moment and 2020 will be the most weird year for me. Haha. Together with my family, we celebrated my birthday today. I'm not expecting anything as I'm really bad with date. Therefore, it's always fine with me if people not remembering my birthday. But today, after spent time together with my family, I realize how important to celebrate those moment with your loved ones. It's just a small celebration but somehow managed to make me smile all night. I'll cherish this moment and 2020 will be the most weird year for me. Haha.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One positive thing about Covid-19, it's really push me to keep a close relationship with my families. We stuck with each other because of quarantine and instead of mind our own business, every day we spend time to talk about many things. From number of cases to politic, Netflix, frustration with our core jobs and many things. Nothing specific and I think that's what bonded us this year. Our working life somehow change the way how we interact with each other and Covid-19 gives us an opportunity to find the missing puzzles in our families. </span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As I'm getting older today, not sure what kind of life challenges is waiting for me. After struggling with depression since 2017, I've started to change my perspective towards life. Three years struggling with life challenges, I believe today marked another achievement for my life. I'm smiling on my birthday. Hopefully,</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: inherit;">things will getting better day by day and I'll keep learning new things everyday</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></div></span></div><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 8px 0px; text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cSTbu5LBsg4/X70Wfq1-PRI/AAAAAAAAXOU/ne3VWWIqC6oirOfyBexdHKUQCVpzDSB6ACLcBGAsYHQ/s752/journey.jpg" style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="490" data-original-width="752" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cSTbu5LBsg4/X70Wfq1-PRI/AAAAAAAAXOU/ne3VWWIqC6oirOfyBexdHKUQCVpzDSB6ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/journey.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0