You spend the first six months at a job learning your place, testing your limits and generally meeting what is expected from you. After that, the work-expectation set point has been established, and you have nothing to anticipate besides advancement, quitting or getting fired in a blazing row. There is no challenge, and you go to work not watching the clock, but looking for ways to pass the time. (more…)
24 June, 2008
30 May, 2008
How to maintain your Self-Esteem at work
“I don’t want to go to work today”
Do you recognize who said this? You and I, full of this stuff called ‘free-will’, give in to the incessant demands of our jobs simply because they hold over our heads the very stuff of survival, a steady paycheck.
As if constantly wrenching our individual will-power in order to be subservient to another isn’t bad enough, once we are in our work environment we encounter no small number of things which are detrimental to our physical and mental health. (more…)
23 May, 2008
How to use Piles Effectively
Piles of stuff are a paradox. What appears to the uninitiated as a disorderly mess, to the creator of said pile, is the quickest way to file, categorize and find items, using the intuitive and associative powers of the mind. How can a thing be both an organizational solution and a problem?
