My Two Great Leaders

March 29, 2019

"Be grateful when life granted you two great mentors..."

While being in the corporate world for nine years, I taught myself this, “Never get too attached to anyone at work because in the end, those people whom you will treat as ‘bestest’ or closest friends will eventually leave you.”

People really come and go in our life. That’s a proven and tested statement.  

Since then that some of my friends chose to have different paths aka away from our company, I always guard my heart not to be easily attached and trust people anymore.  I also learned to distance myself whenever I feel like being close already to new people who I just met and talk to.

Gladly, we have the power of Social Media nowadays so we can still keep in touch with those people that we have been close with before. But the problem on today’s latest technology and its updates’ convenience that can bring us is that, we tend to forget what a real bonding and friendship is.

We choose to have no time to meet our friends personally and we simply take the time to just talk to them through our fingers and gadgets.

Having friends at work was then never been a priority for me.

Gladly, I have great bosses whom I also considered as my confidante. I can still work and live my corporate life peacefully and happily because I was blessed to have the best superiors.

Aside from my “real world” or corporate boss, I also met and got along with this crazy yet great and full of passion leader during my volunteering life.

Coincidentally, they have the same first name!

More than three years ago, my volunteer leader trusted me and believed in my capabilities so she hired me as a Social Media Coordinator and blogger of the non-profit organization she is directing and founding. It is none other than the Project Pearls! This NGO is now very close to my heart! Its mission is now my advocacy. Its dreams is also now my dreams for the other people.

Since 2015, my life already revolved in these two worlds: the volunteering life during weekends and then the corporate world during weekdays. Though it keeps me busy, I love it and I am truly enjoying it!

I still find time for my hobbies and things that I love to do which are writing, mountaineering, travelling and some time for my family. How I manage it? I’ll let you know in my future blog entries!

These two women taught me and continuously teaching me a lot! May it be personal matters, professional advises or others, they still have generous hands wide open for me.

Despite the difficulties and challenges I am going through, they don’t give up on me. When I am already saying that I can’t, I have their backs and saying to me that I still can!

There are so many things to be thanked for in this life and one of the best of it is having these two empowered women not just as a boss for me but also as a life mentor, a true leader and a friend.

 God still never fails to give me amazing gifts and of course I am beyond thankful.

My corporate boss is leaving now. Actually, today is her last day of work. And this triggered me to write this entry.

She may be gone starting on Monday to start anew with her life but all her teachings, advises and memories with us will forever be cherished and won’t vanished.

Thanks for everything, Ms. Yssa! I owe you my career growth!

Three years ago, I was so scared to step out of my comfort zone and be transferred to an environment that I don’t have any idea nor experience and yet you have chosen me to have a chance. A kind of chance to prove to myself that I really can!

So I went out of my nutshell. From being a timid girl, you have molded me into a much livelier woman. I don’t speak that much before but you have pushed me to open up to others. I learned to be more proactive and tried my best to get along with my other colleagues.

It was really a great thing to have mentors in life!

These two bosses never cease to believe and trust in me. They may have scolded me at times and corrected my mistakes but they never judged me and didn’t lose hope on the things that I can still do better.  There were times that I doubt myself and almost gave up on the things that I do but here they are still pushing me to my limits because they believe that I really can do it!

I always think that I don’t do better for the required effort and output but these two amazing humans keep on reminding me that I AM enough and what I do is really more than enough.  

 Thank you so much Ms. Mel and Ms. Yssa! You may not know each other personally but rest assured that you both have the best exemplary kind of leadership that every human should have by heart.

I love you both!

You are the best two Melissa’s of my life!