The last week I was reading about: ADAPTABILITY, I was trying to understand the meaning of this word, and the following quote was very interesting for me
“the change is the only constant in our lives.”
I read about the change, it is uncomfortable, it is unfamiliar, and some times it scary us, and this is normal, this is ok.
I was imagine different scenarios about how to incorporate the adaptability in my life, “What if the project assign change?”, “What if some team members change?” but, I did not see what was about to happen.
A change was coming
The thing is, I like to play soccer, the past week I was playing with friends, well, the ball hit my fist, breaking a thumb on my left wrist, I could not believe it, I’m a software engineer, and I can not use my computer for a while!
The following day I knew that I require surgery, and it means some rest after that.
I was with something really different and new, something perfect to try to adopt this new word: ADAPTABILITY
What I learned from this accident?
1. You can not control everything, and this is ok
Sometimes we think that we are irreplaceable, and we force us to do things because “who else is going to do this?”, but if something like this happens, we understand that at the end of the day someone else can replace what you do, sorry but this is true
Always I’m going to do my best, but understanding that I need to be fine to work, I need to take care of myself to add all the possible value to my company
2. We work with people, we are not machines
I work in a company with amazing people, when I talked with my boss, her firsts questions were “how do you feel? are you ok?”, in a business with a high rush and filled of higher priorities to complete, feels very good to be involved with people that makes me feel good, people that take cares of me as a person, more than an engineer.
Also, this makes me understand that this kind of accidents occurs, and we should understand and support people when this happens.
3.Positivity
I read from a book the following text:
You can hear from many different channels that you should see things as a Challenge and not as a Problem
When I was in front of this scenario, I was trying to identify what can I get from this as a Challenge, and the result was clear for me, I’ll use this time to study some pending things and see a couple of courses that I did have time before.
I mean, probably this is not a “big Challenge”, but In my scenario I only have two options, try to fix this and work with that I had, or just sit to re think “why did that happen to me?”.
Today I’m recovering from the surgery, taking some time for me. I’m reading, learning, watching some courses, and also, using this time to think about how lucky we are every day
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