“Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keep friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.”
~Greenville Kleisser
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We simply must balance the weight of the economic crisis we’re living day to day, and replace it with an emotional lightness that comes with having fun with friends and family. We have a right to worry and plan for the future, but we would be wrong to forget to have fun along the way. We simply won’t make it a better tomorrow if we don’t take time to enjoy life today. Take it from me; my entire life has been lived in the name of delayed gratification. You can do better; you can have fun along the way with family and friends.
We would do well as a nation to remember the importance of taking responsibility for our own lot in life. I think there is a danger in putting too much pressure on the individual. I don’t mean that the government should pick up the slack and neither do most Americans. Our public institutions are weakening and are in no condition to be relied upon except in a time of crisis.
Pull your life together consider whether you are happy at your JOB, or your JOB is taking away too much time from your personal life and separation from family. You should consider a career change and look for something to provide financial independence, more personal time and having fun along the way of accomplishing these goals.
I feel sorry for the person who can’t get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.
-Walter Chrysler
America, It Will Take Much More Than Our Daily Wants To Go Forward (Continued)
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IV.Rebuilding the commitment between Employer and Employee – Our priorities for the American workplace within the next ten years will be both aspirational and inspirational. First to restore the American worker to his/her rightful place as the most valuable, respected, and sought after employee in the world; and second, to restore the American company as the most successful and desirable place to work in the business world.
The environment now is a relationship of turmoil, suspicion, anxiety, mutual disrespect, distrust and mutual disloyalty between employers and employees. It’s times like these that companies create and abide by an “Employer-Employee Bill Of Rights” that is signed by both parties that includes the following commitments:
· A commitment to speak and a commitment to listen – Listen is the key word both the employers and employees must improve their listening skills to hear what each other says to weight the issues and facts to benefit the survival of the company and to benefit all both management and employees.
· A commitment to provide genuine work-life choices – Employees that are parents for example the right to attend the important functions of their children-employers should recognize this right but conversely employers should be notified well in advance of the absenteeism to appropriately schedule the work required. This is simple but not practiced as often as you might think, because employee fear and employer reaction.
· A commitment to predictability – It is simply unacceptable to tell employees to expect a forty-hour work week when they tell employees to expect a 40 hr work week when they are hired and then ask them to do fifty hours or more…..or cut their hours significantly if they’re hour employees. Conversely, employers have every right to demand that employees arrive on time and stay until the appointed hour. (more…)
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
~ Woodrow Wilson
America, It Will Take Much More Than Our Daily Wants To Go Forward (Continue the previous Post )
II. The American family is broken.
Not entirely shattered, but certainly broken. When more then half the marriages end in divorce we have a problem; when one in three children lives in a home with only one biological parent we have a problem.
American Family by duckstrap in Flickr
There is more assaulting the American family then divorce and absenteeism. The familial essentials of time and attention are absent. The direct relationship between drugs and alcohol abuse among our youths and the lack of time and attention should be no surprise to our adult parents. What is surprising is how the parents still continue to engage in behavior that is overly harmful to our youths. *RESET
Remember adults you’re the role models for our children and we should as adults be cognizance of that every day. *RESET
Success Tip
*Here are seven simple suggestions you can follow to try and repair your core family or my suggestions for your RESET:
Have dinner together as family unit at least five days a week
Take your children to church or synagogue weekly
Check your children’s homework nightly
Demand the truth from your children and get it. Conversely be truthful to them about situations that have direct effects on them, such as the financial situation of the family and that we’ll all have to do some belt tightening.
Taking your children on vacation for at least one week a year. Even if you can’t afford to go away take them to museums, free public parks or beaches, have a picnic, play with them baseball or something fun like maybe a game of poker with the family, you’d be surprised how inter-personal poker is and how it teaches children a lot about life, interacting in business, bartering or negotiating, etc…..
Encourage them to get involved in team sports in school, or Police Athletic league (PAL) or even get them to have a startup game with friends(basketball or soccer inexpensive sport). Parents, just supervise the games don’t live vicariously through your children. Most of all don’t praise them if they aren’t doing well in the sport give them constructive criticism and to help them to improve. Remember let’s stop leveling the playing field for children with everything they do there are kids who will be better than them but let them find out where their talent is.
Try and find a career that will give you more time with the family and financial freedom.
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