Self honesty at work

Do you feel it is a sign of weakness if you ask someone to help you in completing a task at work? Do you feel guilty when you solicit different insights, ideas and directions? There are people who really hypocrite; pretending to know everything, but in actual fact don’t really know. Reason for such behavior because they scare of feel reduced in points if they let others to know that they cannot do it alone. Thus, those who pretending is guaranteed to go through suffering along the way.

With today working environment so complex, we need to be really honest with ourselves to when do we need support from our co-workers, peers, subordinates, and all bosses. When there are pressing need to meet the datelines, we need support in completing the tasks. Support can take multiple categories: physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual.

Have you remember a moment of truth in your life when someone was brutally honest with you or about things that need your attention to improve? This is the most painful kind of support and normally we didn’t like it, but the bluntness of the feedback of this kind somehow changed our life at work. That’s support too although we feel didn’t like it. So please don’t keep pretending but suffering at work. Ask for support when necessary. It wouldn’t make you any weaker, instead it will make you stronger as an individual.