Monday, April 30, 2007
Handling the bad stuff
lifehack.org: "Many people are having a bad time in organizations today. It’s not simply those experiencing budget cuts and lay-offs. Many others are experiencing a deep sense of hurt and loss: loss of much of a life outside of work, loss of their hopes and expectations, loss of their trust in the future, loss of confidence in reaching their career goals. The cruelest hurt is the collective loss of belief that things will soon return to normal. In today’s cut-throat world of global competition and corporate greed, it’s hard to know what normal is."
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i find this more and more relevant as i continue my college experience if you will... i used to not understand what people meant when they would say they need to find themselves at school and what not, it has become increasingly clear to me though. i used to think find yourself!? no way, where did you lose yourself? but now i understand, i'm not saying i've lost it, but i do understand the feeling of being so over-whelmingingly busy that there seems to be no time for individual needs, maybe its the means of our school or maybe its the means of growing up, either-way it just seems as though the second people lose "me" time they start to freak out...i'm trying to stay grounded within such a crazy setting, trying to always remember what i want and what i;'m could at and what i can and cannot do.... hopefully i won't "lose" myself anytime soon.
Haha, I find that I see this attitude a lot. People complaining more about the work than actually doing it. Not only does it make you unhappy, but you also waste a lot of your precious time whining instead of working. Now you've dug yourself an even bigger hole to climb out of... And thus the viscious cycle.
However, sometimes whining does feel good. ;-P
I find this really relevant. I think especially in the school of drama we are handling a lot of different stresses and a lot of the time we constantly blame others. We seem to fail to look at ourselves ask what are we doing that is affecting our work and trying to take ourselves out of those things which we can't control. Focusing on yourself, especially at this time in your life is really important because it is both a time of academic and personal growth. I think this article is really helpful in letting you focus on yourself.
I tend to whine, I do, and Dick Block can verify that fact. However I have found that the longer I am at this school, the more neccessary it becomes for me to suck it up and stop complaining. There are so many things you can let bother you, but honestly we are all too busy to harp on them. I am trying to get over small issues and keep working, regardless of the whining inside.
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