We all need to stop and enjoy each day, tough to do when we are caught up with the stress of work and bills and bringing up a family but the days do fly by and in the end you need to be at peace with yourself that you did your best.
What or where is your spot where your worries disappear?
What do you enjoy?
Music, camping, watching your kids run around in the backyard?
Identify your spot and go there, physically or even just in your head.
Work so you can live.....do not live so you can work.
Self guilt can destroy you, don't allow it too. If you enjoy it -then relax and enjoy it.
Work toward it , think basics, you do not need bigger or better to enjoy.
Most of life's real pleasuers are simple.
The smile of a loved one, the sound of the wind through the trees in your back deck or just taking the time to grill a burger and have a beer with a friend.
Keep it simple, STOP, LOOK and LISTEN......find your outlook.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Constantly pulling
Their are some people in the work place that you constantly feel you are pulling.
They really do not like their job or they have problems in their personal life that they allow to spill over into their business life's.
Either way you are constantly having to pull them along.
It completely stresses you out.
Then their are those people around you that join in and help and are trying to be one step in front of it.
Those people you need to embrace and you need to give them the support and tools they need to stay charged up and moving forward.
They will always be those that resist and prefer to do as little as possible. They will not pick up that box right in front of them unless you ask them too.
Best we can do is to try to identify those people and try as best we can to bring them into the light. To encourage them to think on their own.
Some just will not want to, your position then is to decide they they still serve a purpose and are they more destructive then constructive.
Unfortunately those people that continue to pull will never get ahead , they will never really get to feel the positives feeling of team work or accomplishments.
They have already predetermined their future, you need to decide are you better of moving on without them because they are pulling you down too.
They really do not like their job or they have problems in their personal life that they allow to spill over into their business life's.
Either way you are constantly having to pull them along.
It completely stresses you out.
Then their are those people around you that join in and help and are trying to be one step in front of it.
Those people you need to embrace and you need to give them the support and tools they need to stay charged up and moving forward.
They will always be those that resist and prefer to do as little as possible. They will not pick up that box right in front of them unless you ask them too.
Best we can do is to try to identify those people and try as best we can to bring them into the light. To encourage them to think on their own.
Some just will not want to, your position then is to decide they they still serve a purpose and are they more destructive then constructive.
Unfortunately those people that continue to pull will never get ahead , they will never really get to feel the positives feeling of team work or accomplishments.
They have already predetermined their future, you need to decide are you better of moving on without them because they are pulling you down too.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
In Her Own Words: Madeleine Albright Keynote Address to the Class of 2012
"Live each day with the knowledge that your actions and choices truly do count"
To the parents who are here, I suspect that your emotions are a little bit mixed. You feel both incredibly proud that this moment has finally arrived and yet also astonished at how brief the interval can seem between diapers and diplomas. To the alumni, today’s ceremony will in fact bring back memories of your own college years, which in my case took place about halfway between the invention of the iPod and the discovery of fire.
Now the theory behind a Commencement address is that an older person will share the wisdom of his or her generation with the young based on the older generation’s superior insight into life. I’m not sure that there’s a young person alive who actually subscribes to this theory. In fact if I were sitting where you are today, I might well have some very serious questions.
For example, if older people are so smart, why haven’t we done more to create good jobs so that this year’s graduating class could look forward with less anxiety and more opportunity? Why have we stood by and allowed such an unconscionable gap to grow between rich and poor in our own country and overseas? Why in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence have we done so little to safeguard the environmental health of our planet? Why do our politicians so often remind us of kindergartners who refuse to share the swings? And why are older people in general so clueless about wireless communications?
It would be natural then, if in addition to the excitement of this graduation day, you’re feeling a little sorry for yourselves because the world you’re about to inherit is a troubled one. But to those who see this imperfect request as unfair, in the words of Bradley [Bermont, RWU Student Commencement Speaker], get over it! Every generation has its burdens
It used to be that when coming of age most people had a fair idea of where they would live and what careers they would pursue, many following their parents’ footsteps or finding a niche in a stable profession. However, today stability is an alien concept. In the past decade alone, many of the brand names that flourished when you were younger – from Toys ‘R Us to Blockbuster and MySpace – have fallen under hard times. Meanwhile, such fields as law, business, engineering, healthcare, journalism and education are being transformed.
So as you look ahead, you realize that the demands of the workplace will continue to change and that maintaining a certain level of knowledge is no longer enough. Whether your primary goal is personal success, community service or a combination of the two, you will have to keep learning because there’s always more to know. For this you should be grateful because the quest to learn more is a vital part of what it means to be alive.
It is what prompts us to look at an ocean and want to find ways to preserve the miracle of life within it. To create an innovative work of art that will excite experts and non-experts alike; to design a building in a style not previously attempted; or to develop fresh strategies for taking on the international axis of evil – poverty, ignorance and disease. The desire to do everything you can with the time you have will, if you let it, enable you to reach new frontiers no matter how far from home you actually travel. But as you explore the world in this era of constant change, I advise you also to bear in mind what does not change.
I actually cut her speech up a bit, to see her speech in it's entirety click on this link...
http://pdq.rwu.edu/news/Albright-Keynote-Address
For example, if older people are so smart, why haven’t we done more to create good jobs so that this year’s graduating class could look forward with less anxiety and more opportunity? Why have we stood by and allowed such an unconscionable gap to grow between rich and poor in our own country and overseas? Why in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence have we done so little to safeguard the environmental health of our planet? Why do our politicians so often remind us of kindergartners who refuse to share the swings? And why are older people in general so clueless about wireless communications?
It would be natural then, if in addition to the excitement of this graduation day, you’re feeling a little sorry for yourselves because the world you’re about to inherit is a troubled one. But to those who see this imperfect request as unfair, in the words of Bradley [Bermont, RWU Student Commencement Speaker], get over it! Every generation has its burdens
It used to be that when coming of age most people had a fair idea of where they would live and what careers they would pursue, many following their parents’ footsteps or finding a niche in a stable profession. However, today stability is an alien concept. In the past decade alone, many of the brand names that flourished when you were younger – from Toys ‘R Us to Blockbuster and MySpace – have fallen under hard times. Meanwhile, such fields as law, business, engineering, healthcare, journalism and education are being transformed.
So as you look ahead, you realize that the demands of the workplace will continue to change and that maintaining a certain level of knowledge is no longer enough. Whether your primary goal is personal success, community service or a combination of the two, you will have to keep learning because there’s always more to know. For this you should be grateful because the quest to learn more is a vital part of what it means to be alive.
It is what prompts us to look at an ocean and want to find ways to preserve the miracle of life within it. To create an innovative work of art that will excite experts and non-experts alike; to design a building in a style not previously attempted; or to develop fresh strategies for taking on the international axis of evil – poverty, ignorance and disease. The desire to do everything you can with the time you have will, if you let it, enable you to reach new frontiers no matter how far from home you actually travel. But as you explore the world in this era of constant change, I advise you also to bear in mind what does not change.
I actually cut her speech up a bit, to see her speech in it's entirety click on this link...
http://pdq.rwu.edu/news/Albright-Keynote-Address
Monday, May 28, 2012
THANK YOU
Today, on Memorial Day , we honor the memory of the Courageous and Patriotic Members of the U.S Armed Forces, who have given their lives for our freedom and our country.
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Background on Memorial Day
Background
Memorial Day started as an event to honor Union soldiers, who had died during the American Civil War. It was inspired by the way people in the Southern states honored their dead. After World War I, it was extended to include all men and women, who died in any war or military action.Memorial Day was originally known as Decoration Day. The current name for this day did not come into use until after World War II. Decoration Day and then Memorial Day used to be held on May 30, regardless of the day of the week, on which it fell. In 1968, the Uniform Holidays Bill was passed as part of a move to use federal holidays to create three-day weekends. This meant that that, from 1971, Memorial Day holiday has been officially observed on the last Monday in May. However, it took a longer period for all American states to recognize the new date.
Friday, May 25, 2012
Memorial Day
Many of us have a long weekend this coming up with BBQ'S and beaches and gatherings with friends and loved ones.
It's the official start of summer and a time to exhale and relax.
Somewhere in there try to take the time to remember what the holiday is also about, Monday is Memorial Day. A day to salute all those that have served and are serving in our military.
Many have paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms. And make no mistake about it with all it's false we still are the best Country on the planet. If you do not realize that or understand it just travel abroad and look around.
FREEDOM IS NOT FREE...
To all those have worn and are wearing our uniforms we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
It's the official start of summer and a time to exhale and relax.
Somewhere in there try to take the time to remember what the holiday is also about, Monday is Memorial Day. A day to salute all those that have served and are serving in our military.
Many have paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms. And make no mistake about it with all it's false we still are the best Country on the planet. If you do not realize that or understand it just travel abroad and look around.
FREEDOM IS NOT FREE...
To all those have worn and are wearing our uniforms we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
FROM DRIVER SKIP...
Ok..I ' m going to post a good memory....so funny I still laugh. A long time ago ( maybe 5 or 6 years ago). While working nights...I got a call...someone wanting to apply for...the supposedly open advertised....job of hauling......you ready?....cadavers!!!!0( I sure hope I spelled that right) you know dead bodies! Ha anyhow I said something like that must stink...and they...being very serious said oh no....its a refrigerated trailer! Ha....I was on my knees laughing by myself...because no one else there...I had more fun...but none of the day crew saw it that way....Whoever played that prank on me...it was so good! Thanks for all the memories! Never a dull moment on nights dispatching.
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