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Thursday - Jan. 18, 2007
- 4:07 PM - EDT
- #12
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I am bored with my work!! Well I am not
sure if it's good if that's
the first thing I feel after being promoted.
Or maybe it's the result
of the promotion that I can't stay on few of
the old projects, hence I
am bored now?! Either way, I am so bored~~~
I think the problem is that it's not like I
don't have work to do, but
I am just having trouble focusing. For some
reason I have most of my
weekends in the first quarter full already,
and I am bored to death at
work wanting to get out everyday (in the
event that I do go into the
office that is). Maybe the issue is the
lack of deadline and
expectation. What I need to do these days
are easy tasks that can be
done within the hour, but if I finish them
first thing in the morning
then I will have nothing left to do for the
rest of the day (or week),
so I just keep procrastinating the work till
the end of the day or the
next day. It is highly ineffective, I know,
but it's hard for me to
focus when these things don't have to be
done NOW. I think my ADD
syndrome is getting worse, if it's not
already obvious from my
writing... =p
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Wednesday - Dec. 20, 2006
- 3:59 PM - EDT
- #10
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I attended the "7 Habits for Highly Effective People" training last
week and found it very inspirational and motivating. All the habits
discussed during the training were easy and most of them are common
sense, but when we have our heads down and bury ourselves with numerous
minor things that all seem urgent at the time, we forget to prioritize
and put "the big rocks" in our lives first. The truth is, many
important things in life don't seem urgent, therefore, we tend to push
them to the back of our mind and spend most of our lives dealing with
the less important but "very urgent" matters. Not until the important
things leave us, we wouldn't realize what we've been missing or
neglecting.
To overcome the ADD habits I've developed since I started working, I
got myself a personal planner for next year, and started putting
important dates/goals in it. It is a tough time of the year for me
with projects wrapping up, holiday shopping list growing longer, NYE
party planning, furniture shopping and apartment cleaning yet to be
done. On top of that, we started to discuss the Europe trip in the
spring and have to finalize it soon before everything gets more
expensive. It's just so easy to get into the old habit of putting out
fire wherever it is, and end up running around all day without
accomplishing much. Good thing is that I am more aware of the time
that I am not being productive, and am consciously making the effort to
get back on track everyday now. Hopefully it will help me to stay
productive longer and not be as easily distracted. Can't wait for the
new year to come~~~ =)
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Friday - Sep. 29, 2006
- 3:32 PM - EDT
- #9
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The week is finally over! It's been a slow and painful week. Not because of the work (or lack of work), but because of everything outside of work. My uncle's situation took a turn for the worse (a lot worse) all of the sudden, so my mom took the flight back to Taiwan the next day. Now it's just the matter of when...=/ Even though death is something that everyone will eventually face, it never gets easier no matter how many times you've seen it.
It does make one wonder though, what is the point? What is the point to study hard, work hard, raise children, get old and sick, then pass away, so your children can do the same thing all over again, and in the process wasting natural resources and killing more animals (and maybe even others)? Being a highly respectful doctor in the biggest hospital in Taiwan, my uncle has done extraordinary job every step of his life. He worked so hard for so long that he didn't even realize how sick he was till it was too late. I wonder what he is thinking now under the mask of life support, is he thinking back on all the things he's done in his life, regretting the time he didn't get to spend with the family, worrying about the huge medical bills he has incurred, or wondering where he might go after this life? Or is he like me, puzzling by the purpose of every single one of us having to go through this life on this earth?
Some say we are to set good examples for others throughout our lives, so the people come after us can follow our lead and become better persons than ourselves. Some say our goal is to create. Create things and ideas that didn't exist before our time, create theories and equipment so we can better understand ourselves and the world we life in. Some say we are here to explore our potentials and exceed the old selves throughout our lifetime. However, to me, all these don't answer the question, the question of why we exist. All these reasons are merely means to seek the answer to the question. The very question that haunts every one of us at different points of our lives.
I don't know if there's one simple answer to this question, or it will be different for everyone. But for now I just wish for happiness, especially the happiness of my grandmother, who's suffering terribly right now because of this incident. I hope God will watch over her and comfort her the way that we are unable to.
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