Emotions: Enjoy the ride!

Ups and downs. Rough patches and awesome experiences. They are all part of life and living. If you do not experience the lows - you could never enjoy the highs. They are called emotions and that is what makes life great.

A recent blog post by a popular sharks rugby supporter, after the Sharks had lost a Super 15

Have fun!

Whatever you do, you should be having fun!


It is a big statement I know but it is true. You can argue that work is not fun whilst going on holiday is! But why cant you have fun at work? At least you should not be dreading going to work.


Moving off work being fun - your hobbies and spare time should be fun! I create websites in a business I run called Steggies Place Web Hosting. Go to www.steggiesplace.com for details. This is always fun! Yes it does create some extra income but that is certainly not the only fun I have! I have created websites for various people and they have always been and continue to be great fun when creating or maintaining them.


If you are enjoying the past times you are involved in - its contagious and others want to  know what you are doing to make you so happy and love life!
This concept was slammed into my head by Sir Richard Bransons book Let's Not Screw It, Let's Just Do It that I read recently. He made his money having fun! No if he can then you can!!


Have fun!

Angels

My tertiary education started on a different path than the one I currently run along. It started as a year in sports massage with an aim to get into Chiropractic.

I believe that angels come along in many forms. One came into my life as a chiropractor who firstly picked up my suspected marfans syndrome during a 'routine appointment' and secondly may (or may not) have had a hand in my gaining entry into Chiropractic the following year.

Another angel entered my life whilst studying at Tech. When we first met - just friends, I was still in a relationship. It came about through us both failing a course. We wrote the exam and I went to get the results. By this time I was single again. I phoned her to tell her we both passed and asked her to mugg and bean for coffee. As the classics say - the rest is history. About 3 weeks it was official that we were together, about 3 years (March 2007) later we were engaged 24 November 2007 we were married.

Angels come in various forms. The trick is to recognize them and have them influence your life in a positive way whilst they are in your life. They sometimes stay in your life but now always.

Double century!

Here is my 2 cents has hit 200 visits!

Thank you to all who have visited my blog since inception. I will endeavorer to make the blog more active and interesting as time goes by!

Do not forget to follow me on twitter and watch for me on Facebook soon.

This is too funny.

How many of the "cool gang" are now working for the "nerds" of the school!!

Introducing Your Worst Nightmare: Karate Kyle

Cheer up!

I am one of the fortunate people that enjoy my job and do not in anyway dread getting up in the morning and going to work. Sometimes , as everybody finds, it's difficult to get up but that's life and we all get through it. I am not professing to be Mr super energetic and positive all the time!


Having said this, there are obviously people who are in the awful state of the opposite of the above and hate work and every minute of it. 


There are other people who are just rude! Our local veggie shop that we frequent regularly is the prime example. Every time I go there (without fail) the cashiers are just rude and unhelpful. I have worked with people in that situation before where some people can be very rude and horrible at times but there is NEVER a reason to be rude EVER.


To those people - Please cheer up. Nothing can be so bad that you have to spread the misery to others. I understand that it's hard work to keep positive but its well worth the effort. If you are that unhappy rather leave the job and get someone who is happy to be there do it!

Grateful!

I would like to say a grateful thank you to all those who have visited my blog over the last month. The visits number is at 90 so far!

Thank you for coming to read it and please do come again!
Please leave comments and suggestions on how to make it better.

Remember your power!

Go and see what you can do!

I know its aimed at south africans but the principles are applicable to every country and every body in the world!

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Take the stairs!

I now work in a building on the 5th floor. The options to get to the office are the lift or the stairs.
Yesterday, i made a decision to take the stairs whenever possible or convenient. I know 5 floors seems a lot of stairs but given my age and health status (excellent), I can easily make the stairs every morning and afternoon. It also gets my heart going a little faster than the lift would without making me sweat.

I challenge you to take the stairs, however, there are exceptions or provisos to this challenge :

1. If you work on the 42nd floor - the stairs may be a little too much to handle as well as the lift is going to be quicker!
1. Suggestion: do a few floors and catch the lift from there in the morning.
2. take the stairs in the afternoon down and then take the lift.
2. If you are in any way affected by health issues - NB do not try this without consulting your doctor first!!!
3. If you have no stairs to work or the stairs are not available - obviously you cannot do this!
4. Next time you go shopping in a supermarket with more than one floor - use the stairs if possible.

Let me know how it goes!!

Back from holiday!

Good morning to you all!
We have been away in the berg for 5 days so have not posted anything to this blog during that time. I have however, managed to jot some things down about the holiday and will post them later.

Cheers,

Be still (Part 2)

This is going to sound really strange but I really ask you to try it!


When driving in your car (to wherever you go - be it work, gym, dropping kids off etc etc) - try driving with no radio / CD / mp3 player on. 
To take it to the next level - when you normally plug your ipod / mp3 player into your ears, try doing whatever you were doing without it. it may seem weird and unusual but it can be very relaxing.


Try it. You never know!

Learn to deal with the Pricks!

It was the coldest winter ever.   Many animals died because of the cold.

  
The porcupines, realizing the situation, decided to   group together. They were covered and protected, but the quills of each wounded the closest companion. After a while, they decided to distance themselves, and they began to die, alone and frozen.
 
So,   they had to make a choice: either accept the quills of their companions or disappear from the Earth. Wisely, they decided to go back to being together.  They learned to live with the little wounds that were caused by their close relationships because the most important part was the heat that came from the others. They were   able to survive..
 
The   best relationship is not the one that brings together perfect people, but the one that forms when individuals learn to live with the imperfections and admire the good qualities of others.
 

The Moral of the story:
 
LEARN TO DEAL WITH THE PRICKS IN YOUR LIFE!

So here is the plan!

So as you are probably aware - I lost my job on Friday last week. This is the plan going forward:

Send my CV out to any ad placed in various places for a job that looks suitable,

Study at least 3 hours a day until I get that job,

Advertise www.steggiesplace.com and promote the great opportunity it is to bring some money in,

STAY POSITIVE about this time being a way to move forward.

Here we go!

Officially unemployed!

Its been a rough day and in fact a 2 weeks!

It started last week with a number of issues that surfaced at work. I was informed that I have a negative attitude - true sometimes and I admit that I do tend to go that way first but given 2 days or so, I am back to myself and carry on.
Yesterday, the poo really did hit the fan and this resulted in "irretrievable breakdown in relationships" ie: I no longer have a job!

This I am taking pretty hard (as can be expected) but its an opportunity to move forward from here and not look back and try and disect something I do not understand because this results in going backwards and nothing positive come of it.

Haver fun!

Time to make a change

As you might be aware - I am blessed to be able to commute on a bicycle to work. I do it about 2 / 3 times a week. Yesterday, i decided to take a longer route to work as I would like to get my training mileage up and also because I get bored with the same route day after day.


I was nearing the last hill and having a good ride when i suddenly could not change my front cog into the higher gear! I slowed down - now getting frustrated and worried - to see what happened. I discovered that my gear cable had frayed enough not to work properly!


The change comes into play like this. Last year I bought a set of rims to replace the current set I have (they are getting tired). The front rim went on almost straight away but the back rim had no cassette. Cassettes are costly and I did not have the money to do it at that stage. My wife and I discussed this quandary and came up with this: The money i would be saving on petrol by riding to work would be saved to buy me a new cassette and the necessary service to install it. 


So when my gear cable broke - the change needed to happen sooner than later - so my reliable machine is going in today and its going to get a new rear wheel!