Sunday, January 27, 2008

Win The Game You're Playing, Even If You Lose the Games Others Play


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Monday, January 21, 2008

Reflections on MLK & Work

I'm grateful for another King holiday. Every year on this day I reflect on the fact that the work of Dr. King has afforded me the right to work in a broader number of roles and situations in the society that my father and grandfather could only have dreamed about.

I'm asked why I don't take this day all, and often I reply that I'm happy to work on this day because it is Dr. King's work that is the main reason why I work where I do. As we celebrate this day, let's take time to reflect on the work of Dr. King and the fact that his dream is a bit more realized when we work in diverse organizations with peoples from cultures that a few generations ago would not have been allowed.

Happy King's Day to you!

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Self-Comparison Better Than Other-Comparison (Most of the Time)

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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

It Could Have Been Otherwise.

Recently while listening to the podcast, Practicing Happiness, from www.audiodharma.com by Kamala Masters, I came in contact with the poem by Jane Kenyon called Otherwise. This poem, about gratefulness, was very thought-provoking for me. Here it is:

Otherwise by Jane Kenyon
I got out of bed on two strong legs.
It might have been otherwise.

I ate cereal, sweet milk, ripe, flawless peach.
It might have been otherwise.

I took the dog uphill to the birch wood.
All morning I did the work I love.
At noon I lay down with my mate.
It might have been otherwise.

We ate dinner together at a table with silver candlesticks.
It might have been otherwise.

I slept in a bed in a room with paintings on the walls,
And planned another day just like this day.
But one day, I know, it will be otherwise.

Find this and other poems at www.poemhunter.com.

We often we complain about situations or wish that they were better but we forget the fact that things could be otherwise. That is, things could always be worse. And in fact one of these days, things will be.

This poem has encouraged me to continue in my practice of thinking “glass half full”. I ask how this could be "otherwise worse" along with “otherwise better” as a way of balancing the “awfulizing” and “horriblizing” that I am prone to. When I consider how things could be "otherwise better", I recommit, plan and acting in ways that would make the situation better. I find that both of these thoughts and my response to them inspires gratefulness that things are not as bad as they might be, and at the same time, gratefulness that I have the ability and the resources to make things better.

So because things could be “otherwise worse” and because one day they will be let us commit ourselves to cherishing the fact that today it is not otherwise while working to make things “otherwise better”.

Sunday, January 06, 2008

On Using www.LinkedIn.com

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Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Have a Blessed New Year!

This year while greeting people in the New Year I am using the alternate greeting, "Have a Blessed New Year" as opposed to have a "Happy New Year", because happiness has so much to do with what is happening to us, but one can be blessed even if they're not happy. When I think about all that happened to me in 2007, whether they made me happy or not, I was blessed because everything gave me some advantage experientially, relationally, educationally or economically. I see that everything is a blessing and what I think is not a blessing is only because I'm looking at it the wrong way.

So as we begin this New Year, remember that whether your New Year is happy or not, it certainly is blessed. Every day, count every blessing! See every situation as a blessing! Understand that blessings are like opportunities, every situation contains one, but only if you see it.

Have a Blessed New Year!