Good Morning Brilliant and Excellent People,
I look forward to sharing with you Brilliant and Excellent tips for attaining your goals and fulfilling your Purpose.
point the umpire or referee in soccer has the power to decide the outcome of the game. Some of these decisions has led to fans or players bullying the referee after the game.
Power, authority and position is only a phase, this means that it won’t last forever. It is important to note that other people have been in that position before you and other people will be in that position after you, especially since you don’t know who those other people are, it is important to treat everyone with fairness and tolerance.
I remember writing my last paper in high school (WAEC) as it is called in West Africa. Students on the day of their last papers find it easy to get their pay back done to prefects who have misused their positions and done them wrong in the past. Knowing that they no longer can be punished by these prefects, they sometimes go to extreme length to prove their hurt by flaunting indiscipline behaviours.
Also as a tennis player, you feel so bad when an umpire makes a wrong call during a game. At that
People often think abuse of power, authority and position is limited to only people in high places with lots of money and occupying government positions. Unfortunately, it is not always so, and many things can trigger the abuse of power, authority and position aside wealth and influence. Let’s take a few examples:
What about officials who are supposed to be protecting the citizens in one capacity or the other. Many times, you realise on the contrary that the same officials who are supposed to protect extort people, intimidate them and steal from them.
Finally, a young ambitious man who finally reaches management level begins to feel the need to throw his weight around. May lay off people who he perceives as threat to him and shut down people who have bigger ideas than he.
For all its worth, there are many other examples that can shows us that money and influence is not the only motive for abusing power, authority and position and in one way or another, we all may be found guilty if checked. Anybody with power can be corruptible, seeing your new found influence as a means to pay-back. Like the old saying goes, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Is it possible to occupy a position of power without feeling entitled and making other people’s lives miserable? Is it possible to be absolutely uncorrupted by power? I believe so and here are a few steps to ensure that.
1. Let go quickly of hurts and disappointments: the more you focus on who or what wronged you, the easier it is to find a way to pay back wrong for wrong. By letting go of hurts and disappointments, you’ll be giving yourself peace.
2. When making decisions, deal with facts: dealing with facts makes it easier to make decisions without bias, emotion or favouritism.
3. Embrace the core of your humanity: this means to regularly check in with yourself, to always remind yourself that you are not indispensable. People helped you in your journey to being what you are now, thereby people can kick you out.
4. Be genuinely kind: kindness is an act that never loses its ability to transform the giver and the receiver. Give when necessary and never withhold good from those who deserve it.
What to keep in mind
Power, authority and position is only a phase, this means that it won’t last forever. It is important to note that other people have been in that position before you and other people will be in that position after you, especially since you don’t know who those other people are, it is important to treat everyone with fairness and tolerance.
If you achieve power, remember your values and sustain your humanity. Use your power for good, helping others as well as gaining what you personally want.
If you are faced with a corrupt person in power, then if you want to persuade them, seek to understand the inner person. Beware of being corrupted yourself, drawing the line beforehand and never stepping over it. Powerful people recognize powerful attitudes. If you act as if you have power, then they may cede this to you. If you act as a weak underling, then they may persecute you as a victim. www.changingminds.org
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