26.8.11
Work that Fills You with Energy!
Some people, or maybe even most people talk a bout how much of a drag it is to go to work... I, however, have found a profession that I look forward to going to each and every day and even think about it always when I'm not there. Why is that, that for some people, they just go to work because that it what they have to do while others go to work because they "get to do" what they've chosen to do every day? Why isn't it the same way for everyone? Are there simply not enough of the preferred jobs to go around, or what?
I think that maybe the only way to get an answer to this question is to utilize my job. No, I'm serious... All day, every day (that is the weekdays), I go into schools (really just one school per year and it may be that I go the same school, as that is my job) and help the students there to discover what it is that they love to do. They may already know what they love to do, and that's fine--I will just help them discover more ways to do the thing they already love to do.
So, let me rephrase my first question (or maybe just repeat the same question...): why is it not the case that everyone loves their job? Seeing as how there are school counselors advocating for students in schools and helping them to discover and chase the job of their dreams, why haven't all of the students in the USA discovered their passion and the job that they will love to do?
Why aren't you happy in your job?
What can I do to help you to be happier? Happier in your job and happier in life (for most people, their job is or has become their life...), won't you just let me help you?
It's not too late; it's never too late.
So, what do you say? Want to get happier?
JPS
9.8.11
Desire and Motivation
We all desire something and almost all of us are motivated to one end or the other...
Where does that desire or where does that motivation come from?
Some desires are completely inexplicable like your desire to choose the red shirt instead of the blue shirt or you desire the green bracelet over the purple one; you can't explain why--in fact, you don't even know why yourself!
Motivations, on the other hand, almost always have some sort of foundation or rationale behind them and you could probably explain why this and why not that... Motivations are easier to explain. You might even be able to trace the reasons back in your life and probably can even explain it back before your birth--"My mom and dad knew this and then they taught it to me, and now I know it too and want to keep doing it" or "This goes back in my family for generations and I won't be the generation that doesn't keep doing it also..."
Maybe, though, it's just deeper than that: "I feel that it's right" or "I've prayed about this and know that it's true." Sometimes it's not just a matter of preference or even of history, but it's a conviction that you have that goes so deep that you know that you couldn't ever not believe it.
Let's look at the flip-side though or the reverse side: Why don't you want to do that?
That's a little harder to explain for most people. You can say the negative of each reason, though, for your negative desire or motivation--I can't explain why I don't, but I just don't--it's inexplicable. I don't want that just like my father and my father's father didn't want that... Or, I just feel that it's wrong or I know that it's wrong.
Let's ask, now, how to get a new desire or how to be motivated? I think that this is a question or a problem that all of us, or almost all of us, struggle with. How can I create a new desire or how can I flip a switch and be motivated when I wasn't before?
I won't presume to be able to answer this for everybody or even anyone--you tell me! How can or do you do it?
JPS
5.8.11
Action or Reaction
Stuff happens; we all know that.
The question is: Are you going to react to the situation or can you calmly an collectedly act with poise and well-thought-out and logical, maybe even already-thought-out plans (that's really the best way to go--act with a plan that you've already thought of and maybe pondered on before, maybe even for a long time...). That way you won't just be reacting to the situation. That doesn't mean that you have to think of every single possible situation and make a plan for what you'd do in in all the varying and different situations.
This isn't just my thought or my pondering vision of the way things would be--I've gleamed this from many different thinkers and wise men.
Act, don't react!
JPS
19.5.10
Off Facebook... For good!
I pulled myself off of Facebook last night... and this morning. The site tries to make sure that you'll never leave. And even when you do, it's just as easy as logging-back-on to "reactivate" your account. Just try it, you'll see.
Last night I thought of a way to take myself off permanently so that I couldn't ever reactivate my own account, but it turns-out that you have to confirm your own password about 3 times when you deactivate your account. I thought that I could just change my password, just blindly hit the keyboard a few times, then deactivate the account--that way I wouldn't know what my password was. No dice!
Got it figured out now, though. I'm off for good, and if you see me posting anything, then call the police on me for wasting more valuable time (notice, though, that I had to hop on my old blogspot account to "notify" my friends almost immediately that I will no longer be reachable through that devil's playground of wasted time and energy).
I'm trying to convince everyone that there is a better way, though, to keep in contact with your friends. Facebook makes you think that you'll never talk to the people that you care about if you leave. It makes you believe that you'll lose contact with someone that you'll regret not talking to again... But, what did you do before Facebook? Weren't you all right? Weren't you able to function just fine? Didn't you have hours more each day to do things that you really ought to have been doing?
Good riddance. Thanks for the fun time, though, and thanks for showing me how pervasive your evil works are Facebook... er, I mean Satan... er, I mean Facebook.
Josh
Last night I thought of a way to take myself off permanently so that I couldn't ever reactivate my own account, but it turns-out that you have to confirm your own password about 3 times when you deactivate your account. I thought that I could just change my password, just blindly hit the keyboard a few times, then deactivate the account--that way I wouldn't know what my password was. No dice!
Got it figured out now, though. I'm off for good, and if you see me posting anything, then call the police on me for wasting more valuable time (notice, though, that I had to hop on my old blogspot account to "notify" my friends almost immediately that I will no longer be reachable through that devil's playground of wasted time and energy).
I'm trying to convince everyone that there is a better way, though, to keep in contact with your friends. Facebook makes you think that you'll never talk to the people that you care about if you leave. It makes you believe that you'll lose contact with someone that you'll regret not talking to again... But, what did you do before Facebook? Weren't you all right? Weren't you able to function just fine? Didn't you have hours more each day to do things that you really ought to have been doing?
Good riddance. Thanks for the fun time, though, and thanks for showing me how pervasive your evil works are Facebook... er, I mean Satan... er, I mean Facebook.
Josh
10.11.08
Pure Excitement for the Month of December...
I asked Jill to marry me!
SHHhHhHhhh.........
It's a secret!
She said... now lean in closer here so I can whisper.....
YES!!!
Happy days for me... eternally! Until the brightest day!!!
JPS
SHHhHhHhhh.........
It's a secret!
She said... now lean in closer here so I can whisper.....
YES!!!
Happy days for me... eternally! Until the brightest day!!!
JPS
25.10.08
Return of "The Spanish Prisoner"...
Like I have said: I didn't discount inspiration or possibly a burning bush or even a dream or vision, but, I believe that my last love interest basically wrote me that a "Dear Josh" because of The Spanish Prisoner, but it seems that Cami had "hit-the-nail-on-the-head" when she commented that, "Maybe it is a personality test to find out if you are compatible." It seems that watching that movie was my secret-compatibility-test and it most definitely "weeded-out" an incompatible love candidate!
I have since found (re-found? We had actually gone-out a few times in High School...) a completely compatible love interest that actually owns the movie in question!
I am completely, head-over-heels in love with her (she is who I have at other times referred to #105 and the topic of that "potential energy" that I have been referring to...)!
So, thanks Cami--you were right!--and thank you David Mamet for both writing and directing that movie (we'll do lunch sometime; have your people call my people...)!
She had declared a poem by Carl Sandburg, as her poet-of-the-month for October and poated:
"HAPPINESS"
I asked professors who teach the meaning of life to tell
me what is happiness.
And I went to famous executives who boss the work of
thousands of men.
They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though
I was trying to fool with them.
And then one Sunday afternoon I wandered out along
the Desplaines river
And I saw a crowd of Hungarians under the trees with
their women and children and a keg of beer and an
accordion.
I am happy though I have never consumed malt liquor (or any liquor, for that matter...) nor played an accordian...!!! Thanks Jill...
JPS
I have since found (re-found? We had actually gone-out a few times in High School...) a completely compatible love interest that actually owns the movie in question!
I am completely, head-over-heels in love with her (she is who I have at other times referred to #105 and the topic of that "potential energy" that I have been referring to...)!
So, thanks Cami--you were right!--and thank you David Mamet for both writing and directing that movie (we'll do lunch sometime; have your people call my people...)!
She had declared a poem by Carl Sandburg, as her poet-of-the-month for October and poated:
"HAPPINESS"
I asked professors who teach the meaning of life to tell
me what is happiness.
And I went to famous executives who boss the work of
thousands of men.
They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though
I was trying to fool with them.
And then one Sunday afternoon I wandered out along
the Desplaines river
And I saw a crowd of Hungarians under the trees with
their women and children and a keg of beer and an
accordion.
I am happy though I have never consumed malt liquor (or any liquor, for that matter...) nor played an accordian...!!! Thanks Jill...
JPS
22.10.08
How does procrastination erode faith?
First of all, let's look at what faith is:
In the New Testament (where else should we look to find out the absolute most fundamental characteristic of a disciple of Christ?) we learn that faith is; in Hebrews chapter eleven, verse one -- Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Also, we read in the Book of Mormon, in the book of Ether, chapter twelve much about what faith is, but specifically in verse six, "that faith is things which are hoped for and not seen; wherefore, dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith."
We can infer from those two verses that faith is not to have a sure knowledge and is not to be able to "prove" that such a thing is true... We can, though, believe that it is the case and can believe so much, AS to, like Joseph Smith teaches in his Lectures on Faith, have the power of faith and, therefore, the power to finish the faithful steps that we are taking! (We could go on and on and on about the nature of faith and describe and discuss it, but our point now is to talk about how procrastination erodes faith!)
Now, let us turn a discussion of "procrastination..." Procratination is, in essence, proof that you don't actually have faith, or I should say that to procrastinate is to show that you don't believe, wholeheartedly, that the object of your desired faith will come to pass!
Let me step back for a moment and try not to offend those reading this that may be procrastinators... Alma 34:33,35 & Alma 13:27 & Helaman 13:38 all talk about procratination in terms of not waiting too long to repent or waiting til it becomes "everlastingly too late" to repent!
To procratinate is to do the opposite of moving forward in faith; it is, literally, to stand still or move backwards in faithlessness... C. S. Lewis tells us is that faithful action is strengthened by repetition but that not choosing to act towards your faithful goal will make you forget about and lose interest in completing your original desire or desired goal...
In other words, to procratinate or procrastination, does, in fact, erode faith! It can actually erode it to the point that you no longer have that initial faithful intention...
JPS
In the New Testament (where else should we look to find out the absolute most fundamental characteristic of a disciple of Christ?) we learn that faith is; in Hebrews chapter eleven, verse one -- Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Also, we read in the Book of Mormon, in the book of Ether, chapter twelve much about what faith is, but specifically in verse six, "that faith is things which are hoped for and not seen; wherefore, dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith."
We can infer from those two verses that faith is not to have a sure knowledge and is not to be able to "prove" that such a thing is true... We can, though, believe that it is the case and can believe so much, AS to, like Joseph Smith teaches in his Lectures on Faith, have the power of faith and, therefore, the power to finish the faithful steps that we are taking! (We could go on and on and on about the nature of faith and describe and discuss it, but our point now is to talk about how procrastination erodes faith!)
Now, let us turn a discussion of "procrastination..." Procratination is, in essence, proof that you don't actually have faith, or I should say that to procrastinate is to show that you don't believe, wholeheartedly, that the object of your desired faith will come to pass!
Let me step back for a moment and try not to offend those reading this that may be procrastinators... Alma 34:33,35 & Alma 13:27 & Helaman 13:38 all talk about procratination in terms of not waiting too long to repent or waiting til it becomes "everlastingly too late" to repent!
To procratinate is to do the opposite of moving forward in faith; it is, literally, to stand still or move backwards in faithlessness... C. S. Lewis tells us is that faithful action is strengthened by repetition but that not choosing to act towards your faithful goal will make you forget about and lose interest in completing your original desire or desired goal...
In other words, to procratinate or procrastination, does, in fact, erode faith! It can actually erode it to the point that you no longer have that initial faithful intention...
JPS
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