Just a little more on the working hard thing. I often find at times it feels that I may be working too hard for nothing and then all of the sudden you start getting back in a flood for what you're putting out.
Like for example on the newspaper route I'm doing with my son, we have been getting great tips for Christmas. I opened my mailbox one day and saw a load of cards in the mail and I was like "Whoa, what's this?" Then I realized, it's from our paper route. it was also very encouraging for my son, which is great.
I also had a great weekend rose selling, especially Friday night. I have a lot of Christmas plush in stock that I purchased earlier Christmases that I was determined to make good use of this Christmas. I attached them to my bouquets and made up some double rose sets as described earlier and even attached to singles. Those sold very well this weekend as well as the regular roses and lighted roses.
Have a Happy Holiday,
Claire
Showing posts with label "Work too much on purpose" experiment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label "Work too much on purpose" experiment. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Sunday, December 21, 2008
The Luckiest Woman in Babylon
Well the book I was going to tell you about was The Richest Man in Babylon. You probably have at least heard of it. If not, I definitely recommend it to those trying to be financially successful.
My favorite chapter was "The Luckiest Man in Babylon." Well it's kind of a funny name the man who tell the story was put up for collateral on a loan that was defaulted so ended up sold into slavery. He meets a man though, named Meggido who gives some great advice about work. He says that work is his friend and he basically greets work happily as he knows that the harder he works and the better job he does will lead him to better fortune and riches. He advises him that masters like slaves who are willing to work and he would be more likely to gain his freedom this way. They are also very smart business men and they apply their work in intelligent directions.
There is much more to this story and I found it very entertaining and very inspiring to an outlook on life that will be sure to improve it.
It very much has to do with last post. So I thought i would share it.
The man is does have pretty bad luck at certain points and is forced into some horrible slavery. I don't believe slave work will much make anyone feel very good and at the point the slavery was that brutal it didn't make him feel that good either.
I think a great point to ensure while working hard is that you're working toward a good purpose and you don't feel like a driven slave about it. I think an important point and one reflected in the story is to make up your mind that you want to do it , take pleasure in your work and what you're accomplishing. I think the feeling of being forced is what has made "work" a dirty word.
Good Luck,
Claire
My favorite chapter was "The Luckiest Man in Babylon." Well it's kind of a funny name the man who tell the story was put up for collateral on a loan that was defaulted so ended up sold into slavery. He meets a man though, named Meggido who gives some great advice about work. He says that work is his friend and he basically greets work happily as he knows that the harder he works and the better job he does will lead him to better fortune and riches. He advises him that masters like slaves who are willing to work and he would be more likely to gain his freedom this way. They are also very smart business men and they apply their work in intelligent directions.
There is much more to this story and I found it very entertaining and very inspiring to an outlook on life that will be sure to improve it.
It very much has to do with last post. So I thought i would share it.
The man is does have pretty bad luck at certain points and is forced into some horrible slavery. I don't believe slave work will much make anyone feel very good and at the point the slavery was that brutal it didn't make him feel that good either.
I think a great point to ensure while working hard is that you're working toward a good purpose and you don't feel like a driven slave about it. I think an important point and one reflected in the story is to make up your mind that you want to do it , take pleasure in your work and what you're accomplishing. I think the feeling of being forced is what has made "work" a dirty word.
Good Luck,
Claire
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Something about working hard
Soon after trying that biphasic sleep experiment and failing miserably, I saw that I was in more like a "Can I handle all this work?"experiment. If you see the earlier blogs, I had gotten myself involved in a paper route because I wanted to help my shy son get a job.
What is involved in the paper route is that anywhere from 2AM to 3 AM typically, you go to the distribution center put inserts into 200 to 300 papers, put them in bags and go out and throw them on lawns or whatever was requested. Once you're familiar with what your doing, you're usually done by 5:30AM on a regular day. Sunday is a very large paper, especially this time of year, and more customers want it, so that day takes longer.
Anyway I'm already a homeschooling mom, have some web businesses and sell roses on the weekends in night clubs.
I sell the roses until 3AM about a half an hour away from where I'm doing the paper route, so I have to rush from doing that to the distribution center-work like a crazy woman, especially on a Sunday morning to get those papers ready with my son and get them all thrown by the deadline.
Then basically go to sleep at 6 or 7 AM, get up get my roses prepared and start the drill all over again.
Not only is it a lot to do but it has to all be done very fast under he circumstances. At first I thought "Wow, this is really going to drive me nuts!"
But you know after a few days of this I started feeling better, thinking clearer and found all this extra work wasn't going to kill me after all.
Now I don't think it's a great idea to fill your life up with too much to do, so you don't do any one thing well and just work for the sake of work and not accomplish much.
But think of all the backlogged things you need to do, think of the business you may be starting. What if you worked as hard as you really could to get those things done and did what it actually took to make that business or that child rearing or whatever your doing a real success.
We tend to resist work, it's all around us, the idea that we shouldn't like it and it's to be avoided and that it's something unpleasant to get over, when I doubt that anyone who has been truly successful ever operated on that idea and hadn't worked very hard to obtain that success.
So I thought it would be kind of an interesting experiment to try to purposely do very much of that thing I'm resisting having too much of: WORK. And see what happens.
Well you know at first there were a lot of ups and downs with this, but I recently added some focus to it. Be practical--work hard in specific directions. I've only recently started with that addition, so I'll be letting you know how it goes.
I have more to say on this subject though, I read an interesting book that relates to this. I'll be telling you about that tomorrow.
Time to go,
Claire
What is involved in the paper route is that anywhere from 2AM to 3 AM typically, you go to the distribution center put inserts into 200 to 300 papers, put them in bags and go out and throw them on lawns or whatever was requested. Once you're familiar with what your doing, you're usually done by 5:30AM on a regular day. Sunday is a very large paper, especially this time of year, and more customers want it, so that day takes longer.
Anyway I'm already a homeschooling mom, have some web businesses and sell roses on the weekends in night clubs.
I sell the roses until 3AM about a half an hour away from where I'm doing the paper route, so I have to rush from doing that to the distribution center-work like a crazy woman, especially on a Sunday morning to get those papers ready with my son and get them all thrown by the deadline.
Then basically go to sleep at 6 or 7 AM, get up get my roses prepared and start the drill all over again.
Not only is it a lot to do but it has to all be done very fast under he circumstances. At first I thought "Wow, this is really going to drive me nuts!"
But you know after a few days of this I started feeling better, thinking clearer and found all this extra work wasn't going to kill me after all.
Now I don't think it's a great idea to fill your life up with too much to do, so you don't do any one thing well and just work for the sake of work and not accomplish much.
But think of all the backlogged things you need to do, think of the business you may be starting. What if you worked as hard as you really could to get those things done and did what it actually took to make that business or that child rearing or whatever your doing a real success.
We tend to resist work, it's all around us, the idea that we shouldn't like it and it's to be avoided and that it's something unpleasant to get over, when I doubt that anyone who has been truly successful ever operated on that idea and hadn't worked very hard to obtain that success.
So I thought it would be kind of an interesting experiment to try to purposely do very much of that thing I'm resisting having too much of: WORK. And see what happens.
Well you know at first there were a lot of ups and downs with this, but I recently added some focus to it. Be practical--work hard in specific directions. I've only recently started with that addition, so I'll be letting you know how it goes.
I have more to say on this subject though, I read an interesting book that relates to this. I'll be telling you about that tomorrow.
Time to go,
Claire
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