Reflection: My first global virtual team experience

Today I suddenly started reflecting about another team I was involved in the years with AIESEC.

Those days there was a global virtual team known as the 'Suxxess Network Drive Team' which was made up of people from all over the world with the responsibility of collecting Best Case Practices ( now called Good Case Practices) and to share these within the network.

During 2003 when I was LCVP elect I applied for this team and got selected...and was working with the people virtually for one year or so.

Some friends from the team....

Kristin ( Norway) - was the AI Responsible for the team and coordinated the team
Bior ( Ghana)
Annesh ( India)
Doris ( Germany)
Kenoma ( Nigeria)
Joannah ( Colombia)

Just thinking about it today, I noticed that I have been connected to many of them in one way or the other since then. ( and has been in touch with them at least once since then )

Kristin - Was Chair for IPM 2006 which i was attending as MCP

Bior - His friendship was one reason that I applied for AIESEC in Ghana ( though I didnt get a response from them on the selection) and he was in Sri Lanka for IPM 2004 as MCP

Kenoma - I was making sure he was selected for CC for IPM 2004 ( though he couldnt make it at the end) and met him at IPM 2006 and IC 2006

Doris - First person I knew who went to Afghanistan ( She was on a CEED there) and one inspiration for me to want to go to Afghanistan ( I am currently talking with them about doing a CEED there)

Also later working with me on Suxxess Network Drive team was Ego ( Nigeria), who then came on an International MC to Sri Lanka to work with me during my MCVP term.

My first virtual team experience, had left a big impression on me, more than I realized in fact.

AIESEC is an Experience and its meant to be lived to the fullest !!!

Thank you's in our lives

Woah ! Its been a long time since i wrote, I will try to back post and catch up on few things that have happened since November. But in the mean time I will start from today... of how I feel...

Last night on my way back home after having 'hot chocolate' (I'm addicted to it ) with a friend, I walked half the way and took a bus for some part. I was getting out from the bus at its last stop and was one of 4 people getting out there, as I got down I heard the girl who got down after me say aloud ' Khop-khun ka' or Thank you to the bus driver.

This simple gesture warmed my heart and had me with a smile :) Its such a simple thing of thanking the person for driving you... I want to foster that mindset, instead of getting bogged down by whats not good, start to truly appreciate the people around you for even the smallest thing they do. Life is gonna be much better as I keep improving on this !!!

Last couple of months has been tough on me, I have desperately missed the sense of control and achievement that I have been used to in the past...things have been chaotic and out of my control...to the extent of being depressed. But at the same time I understood that the choice was mine.. to keep brooding over things or to move on and be positive.

I think I have couple of tough months ahead... but I feel better prepared now. Feel that I cannot and do not need to be responsible for everything around me... and the sense of self confidance I lost is coming back to me

:) This is how I feel right now !