I should have posted this days ago, but I had some sort of internet connection problem, so it was just now that I was able to post this entry. Read on...
nakalimutan ko yatang may blog ako, kaya hindi ako nakapag update ng bongga!!!
I feel guilty for not being able to write something, anything for this blog. I would like to share a lot of things, but I don't know where to start really.
I don't feel sad, nor negative these past few days, it's just that there has been a lot of things happening lately, things which kept me busy, things which kept my thoughts reserved to me and myself only.
But then, I have this blog, and somehow, there is the need to update it. Sayang naman kung hindi...
So here it goes...
Comfort Zone
Comfort zone is the most abused word I have heard this past few days. or rather this past month. It's the word my friends and officemates used to describe the current situations happening with all of us.
Comfort zone. It's the term used to describe your attitude, your feeling towards the environment you have.
In a way, finding your comfort zone makes you a bit relaxed. It's a feeling that makes you at ease, with the people you are with, with the environment that you have. Finding your comfort zone is not something negative, nor something that needs to be brushed aside.
When you are at your comfort zone, there is no tension at all. Most of the time, being at this situation gives way to more creativity. You are more free to think of creative things, situations, or say the most honest, frank, even the most absurd things, without being sorry about it, with no hesitations.
Take this as an example:
At work, when you are at your comfort zone, you feel more at ease with your co-workers. You are free to say your innermost ideas, or even statements. You feel you are at peace with anyone. After work, you go out with them without feeling guilty, knowing you are at your own crowd.
You do your work, and you know you're doing it right. You are very much familiar with what you're doing. You know it like the back of your hand.
But it doesn't make you at all stressed, because, since you are familiar with it, you immediately know crisis management, or you know when to get back on track.
You bend the rules sometimes, well, not majorly, since you know what menial things to let go, and what tasks are the topmost priority. Say, you've got another overbreak, but that's fine, since you know you can catch up with your work.
HOWEVER, being too much at your comfort zone has its limitations.
Recently, I have read in the Marie Claire mag about staying in your comfort zone. Read along:
It happens to the best of us. Our job becomes so routine that we become too
comfortable. "The surefire way for one's career to stagnate is one becomes
complacent" (Manuel-Santana)
It is also true that being too much at your comfort zone can stagnate you. You are very well at ease with the current environment that you have that you forget that you need to move forward. There is no change. There is too much familiarity that you forget you have so many things to learn, new things to explore. You are confining yourself in a place you very well know that you forget you need to get out of the box.
There are so many things to say about keeping yourself inside this box. Too much to say that it becomes redundant.
At the office, me and my officemate whom I consider my big sister had this conversation on love, relationships, etc. And yes, the topic of being too much at your comfort zone was brought up.
We were talking about her, and her relationship with her boyfriend. She was explaining how she feels about their relationship. How things have changed, why there wasn't too much excitement as before, why it wasn't as overwhelming as before. But she emphasized that she loves him, and that those changes doesn't mean she wants to get out of the relationship, well, not as of the moment. She very well knows his boyfriend, but it doesn't mean she's staying in the relationship because she has nowhere to go to. She points out it's not about being at her comfort zone, but it's all about timing. Knowing when to let go and say enough or to give up.
This. I may say is another lesson concerning comfort zone.
Another lesson on comfort zone which really affected me is the recent rigodon.
I work in a company where teamwork plays a really big role. It's not like any other workplace does not value this kind of value, but for this matter, let me just emphasize this to describe the current workplace I'm in.
So there. I love the team where I'm at. Working with my officemates is not just a mere part of the routine. Working with them is something special. I enjoy working with them, because I can feel our oneness. We are not only workers, we are family (sigh). We go out together, share stories and all. Again, let me say we are a family.
But things needed to change. I guess the company realized there wasn't much change happening with the company right now. I guess the company realized that people are too much at thier comfort zone, that we forgot it's also as workplace which needs to compete.
The management decided to create a major revamp in terms of the team. It was a major reshuffling, that each of us has to be scattered to other different teams. This is done, well as part of the trending happening in our company.
We were all saddened with the news. We had to break away with the kind of people we have shared our work time with. We have to start anew, working with other people--start from square one and meet new people to relate and work with.
But then, as our supervisor said, it's not the end. Accept the change as a challenge, to test as to how far we can go with working with other people. This will help us, test our work-relations skills. It will add up to our experience. It's all part of being in the working arena. In this change, we will know other things, who knows, maybe some of us will be able to climb the corporate ladder.
Yes, we had fun with our team back then, but we have to move forward.
This change breaks pattern, and it helps for us to enjoy other things during our stay in the company.
Knowing when you are at your comfort zone, and knowing when to break out of it are stuff we need to know, Being at one is bliss, but breaking out of it can create change, and help us to start again, start a clean slate, and even move forward!
*****
I miss my officemates and friends, but being in this new team, will give me those new set of experiences...
I wonder what lies ahead....
