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She Went With A Bang

June 12, 2011 By //  by DigitalJenIPC

I fainted recently and hit my head. I’m hoping it will improve me. I have been thinking a lot recently about my brain wearing out with overuse. Not wise, as it will wear out even faster. Perhaps I could buy a new one or two brains for the price of one might be an idea too; come in handy in the future as we are living longer.

I fainted because I got up too quickly. More haste less speed is a quote that was created for a reason! Doing something too quickly is easy to do because there is so much to pack in, and this is magnified by social media. Responding in an argument, eating something hot too soon after it is taken out of the oven, giving someone feedback without thinking about the best way to express it is taken out of the oven all have consequences.

Wouldn’t it be brilliant if there was software that enabled humans to defrag their brains and refresh them?  We could erase negatives memories of redundancy, critical comments, bad bosses, broken relationships and stress. I am sure it won’t be too long before that innovation happens. Being replaced by robots is next. I’m off to search Google.

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: busyness, health, lack of time, time management, time to think, work change

From Fixed Grin To Wry Smile?

March 18, 2011 By //  by DigitalJenIPC

Is your face aching from that fixed grin? That expression that says ‘I am happy to have a job, but I am sick of doing 3 jobs, having no pay rise, little feedback or praise and I would like to stuff it where the sun don’t shine?’

If so, smiling at these work signs will change your facial expression and give those face muscles a workout. Enjoy! 

“If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t people happy?”

“I don’t look busy because I did it right first time.”

“Work is like taking a sledge across the Arctic. Only the lead dog has a pleasant view”

“We believe in give and take here. I give my time and effort. They take my freedom and dignity.”

“Who says that nothing is impossible? There are people here who do it every day.”

“If at first you don’t succeed, delegate the job to someone else.”

“The beatings will continue until morale improves.”

If you designed your own work sign, what would be the caption? Do share.

Have you downloaded your free ‘Pain free career change report’ yet?

Click on this link to download it and look busy: http://www.careerstrategies.co.uk/

Have a laugh at our video on YouTube too – more free tips for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b8CFaOq6GY

Filed Under: Employee engagement, Motivation, Stress Tagged With: bad moods, busyness, employee engagement, employee motivation, morale, to do list, work frustrations, work stress

Human Being or Human Doing?

October 30, 2010 By //  by DigitalJenIPC

POEM – BLUE YONDER

As you race through life with no time to see,

Don’t take leave of your senses.

Take time to pause, make time to contemplate.

Just being.

Your awareness a gift,

Your senses, tools.

Appreciate all that is nature, and life.

Look up, observe

Nature’s seasonal fashions;

Rust and gold hues, a sea of light……..

The sky is a mirror of the sea –

Artist’s canvas, vignette of blue.

Clouds like waves breaking,

Shimmering feather shoals teasing the light.

Planes like boats motoring the sky,

Surf streams in their wake.

Jumbo jets cruising, majestic great whites

Of the deep Blue Yonder.

Wake up or you’ll miss

An unmissable moment.

A one off in time

Never to be repeated.

Look up

Wake up

Just be

Rachel Brushfield – Inspired by a beautiful blue sky, a practical philosophy course and the bliss from being present.

Tip – a great book about being present is Eckhart Tolle’s ‘Practicing the power of now.’

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Practising-Power-Now-Eckhart-Tolle/dp/0340822538

Articles from Energise include; being present, managing yourself, busyness addiction, overcoming overwhelm and managing procrastination.

Filed Under: Being, Stress Tagged With: being, busyness, eckhart tolle, fast pace of life, poems, practicing the power of now

Are You Addicted to Busyness?

September 28, 2010 By //  by DigitalJenIPC

What is it with our society that it is so good to be busy? “Are you busy?” is almost as popular a question in our country as “What do you do?” To reply, “no I’m not” or “I am busy doing nothing” or “I have been luxuriating in daydreaming activities ” sounds like a faux pas.

Yet research consistently shows that we need time to think and that insights, clarity and creativity pop in when we allow ourselves that time.  So far, I refuse to have e mails/Internet on the move because I believe that it would gazump my thinking/reading time.  I get all the benefits to fans of this service, but I think I would live in a state or permanent stress and fiddling with the device! If that makes me a fossil with technology, then so be it.

What’s your view? Do you get enough time to think? Do you consciously plan thinking time in your diary and go to a different place to do this? RSVP I have been creating an e course about career change over the last few weeks and I have spent about 9 days holed away, e mail free. Without this, it would have taken a great deal longer.

Are you in the right career for you? Download the FREE report “Pain free career change” to find out. http://www.careerstrategies.co.uk

Filed Under: Stress Tagged With: busyness, Career change, new career, work productivity, work stress

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