Office1000 Blog December Archive

A New You for the New Year

By Blog Stories at 12/31/2007 03:08

It's already 2008! Thank goodness we are still alive and, hopefully, will live for another year to come. It's time to change the calendars and have a new life--not exactly an entirely different life but a life that is much better, healthier, and more prosperous than what we had in 2007.

First and foremost, I think we should give our houses a new look. Eliminate those tons and tons of garbage and set things to their proper places. Although you might argue that a "proper place" is subjective, I know that you know that, for instance, magazines SHOULD be in a rack (hence, the term "magazine rack") and not on your bed when you are not reading them. Don't you feel the peace of mind it creates when things are in order?

We ourselves should have a new look (oh yes, the house comes first!). Get some scissors or some hair gel and style away. Haha. while it's women who mostly do this, it's OK for men to do it, too! Personally, I won't have a new look for this year (or for this month at the very least). There's no point following someone's advice when that someone does not follow his own advice, isn't it? Anyway...

More than the physical 'newness' that the New Year inspires, it is more important that we reassess what kind of people have we been this last year. How much have we done wrong? What kind of wrong? How have I corrected my errors? Have I corrected them, anyway? Like what they always say, there's nothing wrong with making mistakes as we are all human beings. What's more important is how we rise to correct these mistakes. Sometimes, we need to err to learn. Hopefully, we're done with the erring part and now, 2008, we'll start with the learning part, if haven't started it out yet.

Happy new year!

The Length of Life and How to Optimize It

As I have said in a previous blog post, time DOES seem to fly. Imagine, it's already December! Then it'll be time to change the calendars again. Then without you knowing it, it's December again and you'll have to change the calendars again, then it'll be December again, and so on and so forth.

Thinking about this, we realize that time is very short--or, at the very least, our time on this planet is very short. There isn't enough time to do everything we want to do in this lifetime. There isn't enough time to enjoy everything that this plabet has to offer (probably it's for the better). I, for instance, want to travel the world, be a physicist, engineer, computer scientist, economist, and other professions that I could like. This is, obviously, impractical, if not impossible. Getting a graduate degree is, perhaps, better than getting a second degree. (TRIVIA: It is said that it takes more than a lifetime to understand the processes of organic chemistry)

Given that we have a very short time to live and enjoy, what we can only do to maximize it is to be organized in everything that we intend to do. While there are a tremendous amount of activities that an individual cannot accomplish during his lifetime, there are still a large part of them that can still be done--if we just know how to allot time for them.

You might say that "blah blah you just go on and on with your organization thing" but, face it, despite all the reasons posted here why you should get organized (economy, etc.), the main reason why we advocate organization is for productivity and variety. You wouldn't want to live your whole life arranging the files in your store room, would you?

Life is short. Maximize it.