Hello Daneen
As it relates to Thomas Carlyle’s (1951) passage titled, Blessed is he who has found his work, thank you for sharing and describing your key insights into how perseverance and self-awareness integrate within your professional career in health care. How a leader demonstrates to themselves and to others a commitment to follow through with a vision and most importantly when to self-adjust, led me to reflect upon Carlyle’s (1951) love for the significance in work when he states, “a man perfects himself by working” (p. 135). Sexism in this age to be sure; however, the statement led me to consider how perfecting himself within the context of leadership, could be adapted and applied externally towards perfecting others we are leading. Personally, the key lesson prompts the question, “How can I grow the measure of perseverance and self-awareness in others so that they can accomplish what may seem completely out of reach”? It is encouraging to hear that you have found your sweet spot at work; however, let us continue to build our awareness, both in self, and in the environment to identify where others are along in their journey, so that like the author, our newly adapted “Carlyle” philosophy will be restated as Blessed is he who has found work, especially in others.
Matt
Carlyle, T. (1951). Blessed is he who has found his work. In L. E. Watson, Light from Many Lamps (pp. 134-137). New York: Simon & Schuster.