The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
- Stephen King
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep.
- Woody Allen
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
- Evan Esar
Well, I do not how many people like April Fool Day jokes, but sometimes there are surprising and can astonish some people. This is my case with two blogs: John Chow and Democracy Centre
The first refers to a new launch: official Coca branded with John Chow. It could be believable, but in fact when you know that AFD is coming, you are prevent to take it seriously.
However, my problem is with the second one: The post reveals, with many details, the upcoming plans of Halliburton to take over a great part of Bolivian country. It describes what they plan to do, and what is coming to happen with some symbols like the flag and the Magnificas. (Uah uah, take a look…)
It is false, but can be true. I suspect that people in Democracy Centre know very well the Bolivian country political situation, and this joke is not really a joke. It can be true, and this is the tragedy behind the joke.
I think that this people have to take into account the realities when making a false new, because reality could be worst than the worst of the nightmares.
All we have a work but not to all of us our work make us happy. Often there are problems. Sometimes is the work itself and sometimes because of companions, heads, or employees are making us unhappy. Often these problems cause that the people desperately look for change their work. However, there are forms to be happy with our work without waiting for the dreamed work that is going to arrive tomorrow. After a deep meditation, analyzing own and other people’s experience, I have found the three keys, the three secrets that allow a person to be happy with their work although it is not the ideal work.
Joy
If we do not make the work with joy, although is a work that we do not like, instead of work it will become a hell. To rise in the morning every day will be a gigantic task, thinking about which it hopes to us. Nevertheless, the joy causes that all the problems happen to background. I know that it is difficult to put joy when the work we don’t like or when we have many problems. However, it is not impossible. If one watches around and sees that the work is a road, and to run this road with good humour will make it easier, then the joy appears in our spirit. We do not have to let take us by the sadness. Day 1 of April is the International Day of Diversion at Work. http://www.playfair.com/fun.htm In this Web there are ideas to celebrate it.
To give more than received
One of the secrets is to give more than we receive. If we only work to have money to live, we must return other services or intangible goods in compensate by the money that they give us, beyond making our work of the most possible perfect way. The reason of this is a physical reason. If we give more than what they pay to us, the universe becomes rich, we contributed to the wealth of everything that surrounds to us. In this way, we improved the species and we improved our surroundings. Surely, this improvement will be repaid by the nature to our favour.
Knowing that will be difficulties
All we know that in our work there will be difficulties always. Nevertheless the difficulties surprise to us, we felt bad, we put ourselves sad or gotten depressed when they happen. However, all we know that always eventually they are going to happen. Then why we feel bad and we anger with our luck when it happens? In the 21st century the jobs that are occupied by people those have the ability of the human being to solve surprise and unexpected difficulties. All the other jobs are going to be occupied by machines. Therefore, it is a blessing that difficulties arise. This is the reason we have a work, that simple. Nevertheless, we react bad when face them, got angry, stress ourselves and feel like the unfortunate people of the world. Moreover, it is not a idealisation. It is the reality. If problems, defects and other disadvantages happen, we must know that thus it is going to be and for that we are, and there will occupy the place that really corresponds to us.
In summary, these three things are those that will make us happy in our works, by most routine that seems. Give joy, give more than they pay us, and to confront the problems with joy and creative talent. Let us apply this advice and every day we will work with a smile. The world will be better for us and for those that surround to us.
I will not repeat the old discussion about monopoly techniques by MS and his boss BG. All the 90s and part of the new century ink rivers were wasted with few success. The man continues with his practices.
But when I found sites like ThinkFree. I feel a little less slave of that man. You can say “well you have Linux and other making their good” but my problem is that I am not very computer skilled to fight again the machine.
ThinkFree. is a jewel. You have a lot of functionality, a lot of well done web 2.0 and much more. And better of all it’s FREE. Free… You have Excel, Word, Powerpoint at a very high level, not full, but enough.
I like it, I use it and I recommend it. Broke the chains and give it an opportunity. It worth…
One thing that makes me feel happiest is the internet. I think is the major revolution during twenty century and will pass a lot of time to fully exploit it and to have another so big instrument implemented. But one of the fascinating aspects of internet for me is the capability to find other people around the globe that think the same that you think.
This is a wonderful effect of blogs, for example, because blogs are sites where common people write.
In this case, I found a very good article about thinking in World Success, a site that I visit regularly. This article is about the advantages of the habit of thinking regularly every day. Is not only an idea that I agree, it is a practice natural for me. I take every night an hour or two some days in thinking about my job, my life, my dreams and so on.
Of course the article is very well written, much better that this one. I recommend that you read it and follow its advice.
Sometimes, some days, is difficult to say what things make me happy. The intention of this blog is to focus in small things as well as big ones, but in some “daily basis” because I thing that often we loose the sight.
However, not every day is so simple. Today I have a terrible day at work, with many problems and worse, stupid problems that demand my attention. I was very tired. So I remained watching TV after dinner in a kind of sofa. I wanted to sleep but I am a nightly man.
But when I was zapping between CNN and old movies in the high numbered channels, I found the thousand times broadcasted “The Godfather”. I thought “ok, I can say that this film is something that makes me happy. I watched one million times the film and I like it more and more. I never could be tired watching this movie. And you?
Today my daughter got her driver license. She now can drive a car. This makes me happy because this fact is a symbol of her independence, her adult age, and her beginning of her future.
To drive a car is not an extraordinary thing. But when I see my children growing and making themselves adults, I feel very glad and hoped.
In the modern world, to have a car (that she bought by herself) is a symbol of adult age. It means independence, ability to travel, know different places, and move from one site to another. It makes me happy.
Tomorrow my son is going to the university to begin with his engineer degree. He wants to make a Computer Engineering degree. Now he is and adult and this fact make me happy. I wish him that his career would be nice, exciting and profitable in all aspects.
He is a very smart person, with a clear notion of his duties and preferences, and with a hard toughness. He wants to be a good citizen with a clear social compromise. He is very nice, fun, and educated.
I think that all of us feel glad to see our children growing healthy, smarty and progressing. We passed all our lives dreaming and praying that god protect them. And when we see them happy, we are happy too.
This recurring question always follows me. I worked in many countries and in different positions. I have had jobs in small and big companies. I have had secondary jobs, and very well expected positions. Nevertheless, always the question is the same: do I like my job?
Now the answer is a sound yes. Mi actual job is a Project Manager position. I have the complete responsibility for planning, procurement, construction and commissioning of a big electrical infrastructure project. But these are not the important question.
The position itself is an exciting job. I have to consider many aspects. I feel that all the work is in my back, and failure and success is in my mind. I have a very skilled team, and this is a great support for me, but my feelings are that all the sort of the work will depend of my creativity.
I feel happy with this responsibility. I feel very happy. I am very glad with this destiny. Moreover, I am working very hard to success.
OK, I say, we always say, that we like beautiful things. It’s easy to say. It looks good to say that. Where are the beautiful, wonderful, things? Here. In this blog, I’ve found this theme that looks great to me. Not is so because aesthetics. Therefore, I think is better because of functionality. It is a luxury theme in terms of functionality. Enjoy it!
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