Love.Live.Dream
Here’s to everyone out there looking for a new job, or any new opportunity in life.
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it rains and pours good things
Although this little fellow looks somewhat miffed at being in the rain, I am happily enjoying the fact that it’s raining (opportunities) for me…
There’s one really good opportunity, with a company and people I really like, there’s still Microsoft, too….. I’ll have an update soon.
In the meantime, Happy Friday everyone…. I’ll be back with a story soon!
passion
I should be asleep, and dreaming – but I got caught up in colors! It’s fascinating how easy it is to manipulate colors on the computer. I’m engrossed with the experimentation of re-coloring.
Since the peacock is full of rich colors anyway, he makes a great canvas to play with.
This is a first draft of the peacock – I’m not totally satisfied with the clarity – not yet. And, speaking of clarity…..
My vision is improving. I am seeing the importance of passion – only just lately. Truly, it’s everything. Passion is everything. creating is everything. Creating wonderful work is everything.
passion is a pretty good guide. (Epiphany alert!!)
I used to think i was too passionate about work. But work has to be passionately wonderful. If it’s not, why do it at all? For money alone? No.
There’s a difference between “work” and work. In the past I thought personal success was measured by how much money I could make. And, in a sense it is, but it’s not integral, passion is first.
It’s about passion first, then money will come. It’s about creating and doing the work I love to do. That’s it. Well, it’s about time I figured that out!
Life is good.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Breakfast
This week’s photo challenge is breakfast – which I rarely have time for, but love just the same.
Today’s breakfast was really yesterday’s breakfast – a big cup of Cheerios – which I didn’t eat today either.
If I were not so stubborn about getting out of bed, I might have time for breakfast!
I need to leave my house by 7:45 to get to work by 8:30. The problem is, I wait until the third snooze alarm before I get out of bed – at about 7:30, which leaves me 15 minutes to get ready……
Sometimes I wake up before the alarm, at about 6:30 or 7:00 which is amazing in itself. If I didn’t have to sit comatose at the edge of my bed forcing my eyes to open then manually arranging my brain parts so they’ll fire, I’d probably have time for a leisurely breakfast. It takes about a half an hour for my body and brain to recognize each other in the morning – many times my Corpus-callosum and Amygdala refuse to speak to each other – that’s what I call a hairy start of the day.
I’m not me in the morning. Usually don’t recognize myself because I look like the Madwoman of Chaillot in a Halloween costume and still drunk with sleep.
I hate mornings….’nuff said? 🙂

Shot with iPhone camera
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the drama triangle and toxic workplaces
At my ISPI meeting tonight (International Society for Performance Improvement), our guest speaker was Ed Muzio, CEO of Group Harmonics, and author of Four Secrets to Liking Your Work, and more recently, Make Work Great, both popular books offering great solutions to “stopping the drama” in the workplace. The YouTube video below, called Stop the Drama and Do the Work, is only 4 minutes, or so, but it packs a good punch of common sense.
In the video Muzio discusses the Drama Triangle Avoidance model. There are three roles in this model, Muzio explains them like this:
1) Persecutor – someone who blames, criticizes, shames, snipes or back-stabs a victim. The 2) Victim role then, is someone who follows orders, deflects blame, could be cynical, displays “poor me” attitudes, displays hopelessness. And finally, 3) the Rescuer Role – they are the Cheerleaders, they fight the power or plan a coup, they help the wounded one, tend to their hurt feelings, and they are the go-to person to fix problems.
In these three roles: Persecutor, Victim, and Rescuer are certain behaviors that inhibits work from getting done. The trick is to reject the roles. For instance, there are nasty and toxic people in my workplace who like nothing better than making others miserable – stealing your work, undermining your efforts, and basically trying to make you look bad so they look better. They are everywhere in my workplace, especially prevalent in leadership roles which makes their influence worse. (Why people who hate people are allowed to lead people I will never understand.)
Ed Muzio has a solution that will be helpful both inside and outside of the workplace. The secret? “Behave as if the role is not real.” If we refuse to be the victim, the persecutor cannot be real….they may act as such to all outward appearances, but without a victim they’re just a lot of hot air!
Take a look at the video- it’s all explained – I think you’ll enjoy it, too!
And then there’s the all too common toxic workplace ….
Next month our ISPI guest will be Dr. Linnda Durre, her book Surviving the Toxic Workplace, is a huge success.
Do insulting screamers, incompetent assistants and outdated equipment drive you crazy? Are you surrounded by vicious backstabbers, sneaky idea stealers, and lazy whiners? Do the nitpicky control freaks, negative pessimists, and office gossips bring you down? Welcome to the Toxic Workplace, a not-so-rare condition that has reached epidemic proportions. In this ingenious step-by-step guide, renowned psychotherapist Linnda Durré shows you how to diagnose and treat these problems quickly and effectively to ensure the health of your company, your career, and your sanity.
This is a book I want to read!
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Work, work, work!
If I’d missed posting tonight it would be the first post missed since starting the post-a-post-a-day for 2011. I’m with my boss so that makes it better.
We have one more little job to do (Hateful Excel spreadsheet that won’t print right).
Anyway, it’s almost midnight so I’m outta here…..
PS… I’m posting from my phone! Ain’t technology grand?!