A500.2.3.RB – TELL YOUR STORY

Michael W. Austin, columnist of PsychologyToday.com wrote, “critical thinking is disciplined thinking that is governed by clear intellectual standards.  This involves identifying and analyzing arguments and truth claims, discovering and overcoming prejudices and biases, developing your own reasons and arguments in favor of what you believe, considering objections to your beliefs, and making rational choices about what to do based on your beliefs.”

The standards that are most important in my life are reasonable, reliable, ethical, loving, and spiritual.  I have always been reasonable and reliable for my family and in the workplace.  At work, as a leader, my direct report and colleagues know that I am a reliable person.  They know that they can always depend on me to response to their needs in a timely manner.  Whenever my direct reports commit errors or submit their reports not on a timely manner, as far as I can help it, I make sure that I give them the benefit of the doubt and let them present their case.  As a leader, my colleagues and direct reports respect my ethical stands.  Individuals who knows me recognizes my spiritually and loving spirit.  I always see the good side of anyone that I encounter.

Working with a company where its mission is aligned with my own personal mission, “Extending the healing ministry of Christ”, is the best employment decision I have ever made.  Although I honestly believe that spirituality and extending pure love to the people around you definitely needs to be in balance.  How many times have I encountered a husband and wife crying in the elevator because their child is very ill and all I can say is I will be praying for your family; sisters crying in our hallway, because they just lost their grandmother; and a wife crying while waiting for the elevator and all I could say was, “Can give you a hug?”  In my line of business, it is not only the patients that need healing, their family and friends need healing too, especially when they receive the word that there is nothing the doctors can do for their family member or friend. 

As far as I could remember, my standards have always been influenced by my mother’s standards.  She has been a reliable and effective parent and a business owner.  Combined with her reliability and effectiveness, and her ethical standard, that makes her a very loving individual, a very loving mother, as well as very spiritual person.  I can still remember how people would come to our house and talk to my mother, crying and begging for my mother to hire her as a house helper.  She had two children without a husband and had no place to go.  I did not even think that my mother knew the lady, but she gave her a chance.  Tita Lucy’s (the lady who approached my mother) with 2 children lived with us for a while.  I grew up treating them as part of our family.  My mother’s company and household staff had too much respect for her, that my mother made sure that all of her children are taken care off.  My mother’s staff stayed with her for as long as they were needed and they all either have better jobs or just had a good retirement.

I have maintained and developed more with the standards of reasonableness, reliability, ethics, loving and spirituality.  By consistently practicing and leaving those standards in my life enhanced who I am today.  I am a good daughter to my mother, a good mother to my four children, a good sister to my four siblings, a good friend and a good wife to my beautiful and loving husband, and an excellent employee to the company wherever God leads me to.

I do not believe in coincidences.  I believe that things happen to my life for a good reason.  It may not be what it seems to be in the present, but the final result has always been for my best.  When one door closes, another door opens.

 

References:

Michael W. Austin Ph.D. Ethics for Everyone, Standards of Critical Thinking, Thinking Towards Truth, https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ethics-everyone/201206/standards-critical-thinking

Gerald M. Nosich, “Learning To Think Things Through, A Guide To Critical Thinking Across The Curriculum, Fourth Edition”