Work or play? Are they the same? For some…
Like me many people who have so-called “made it” I simply went to college, picked the best major to guarantee a decent life, because that was the typical thing to do. We graduated, got that “good job”, and proceeded to live life going to work and waiting for the weekend. The terms “TGIF” and “HUMP DAY” had to be created by people who simply worked to pay the bills.
Now that we are in this terrible economy and people are getting laid off left and right ( I was one of them), do you think it’s a good time to do some soul searching? I mean people are getting laid off from jobs they never liked in the first place, because they were simply trading time for money. In life no matter who you are or where you’re from “TIME” is our most precious asset and we willfully give it away for a wage that society and our employers have deemed reasonable.
But what about those other people…? Those who may have went to college or skipped it all together that were brave enough to follow there dreams from the beginning. Read More
I got a new job in 3 weeks!
So after about three weeks of feeling like I was in “time-out” I got the call I had been waiting for. “Hey they want to make you an offer!”
I was in the gym at the time getting a good workout in to take my mind of the stress of knowing my money was about to run out. No solid jobs where in the horizon when I got that call. It was good news indeed. I told my recruiter what I wanted salary wise and they almost but matched it in less than 10 minutes. A miracle I must say. Must of my friends who had been laid off lately took at least 4 to 5 months to find a decent job. Me on the other hand, I found the one I would have picked out of a line up when it comes to culture, atmosphere, and salary. I truly believe that prayer changes things as well as positive thinking. I am thankful for my new job as I know there are so many others out there still searching. All I can say is, pray, believe, claim, and receive. It will happen on God’s terms and he will not put more on you than you can handle.
“When ever you feel like you can’t take it anymore and are ready to give up, STOP! Your breakthrough is just around the bend, if you will just hold on…”
Getting laid off sucks, but you can’t stop moving forward
So in my previous post (yes it’s been a while) I was talking about how I gave a FaceBook friend some advice on how to deal when things go wrong. Funny thing is three days after writing it I got laid off from my job! Yeah it sucked and was something like an outer body experience. Your boss comes in and says, “Hey Mike can I talk to you in my office real quick…?”. Now I am sitting here knowing full well that under any other circumstance he would have just talked to me right at my desk as we had a pretty laid back work place (one of the best I have ever been apart of). I knew then it was about to go down. I sat down and he began to speak, then I a began to hear absolutely nothing. I saw his lips move but the only thing functioning was my internal thought process trying to compute, how is this bill going to get paid, how am I going to do that, how long will it take me to find another job, etc.
When I got in my car to drive home there was no emotion, just that weird feeling that, “dude you don’t have a job, there are a lot of things you need to pay for, and your dream of owning your own business is not quite in full swing yet…” So here I am a statistic in this ball of toxic soup we call our economy. The first couple of days all I could think about is Read More
Things go wrong, but they go right too, bet on Right
A friend on FaceBook posted the following status, “can’t take another thing going wrong. I’m done !”
I gave her some words of encouragement, so I figured why not post it because I’m sure many others are feeling the same frustration. I have felt the same way plenty of times. My response:
“Don’t worry we are all getting plenty “going wrong” right now. The good thing is it helps us appreciate when things start going right. Don’t give up before it starts going right, because eventually it will. Law of averages + divine intervention = WIN” - Michael Anderson
First Post of 2009 - A better year
Wow, I have not wrote anything on doozieUp since Dec. 25th of 2008! That’s bad I know, I need to post waaay more often then that, but during Christmas I kinda traveled for a week without a consistent connection to the web, so there is my excuse. I am sitting here thinking about how 2009 is going to be and I’m hoping it’s going to be good.
As an inspired person who is constantly trying to find my passion and the source of the great wealth I want to bring into my life, I am always sitting around thinking and contemplating what I want to do, when I am going to do it, and how it’s going to help me achieve all my dreams and goals. I got to do plenty of that over the Christmas break and the more I do, the less I tend to write, because I am too busy thinking. As I continue on this journey to find my path to success I am finding that Read More