Joy is Nested in the Comfort of Being with Yourself
Archive for November, 2010
That is totally annoying..but why?
Nov 27th
A lot of the time, I’ve seen people (including myself) get very annoyed at other people for being non-receptive to the things you believe are obvious.
You know what I’m referring to don’t you? You may relate to some of these for example:
- The missing remote control, I mean…it is meant to be on the coffee table/couch right? How can it possibly just go missing…
- Someone telling you to do something without having asked whether you’d like to first…or be in agreement?
- People barging into an intimate conversation you’re having with someone else during lunch…
- Your partner being a friggin hypocrite!
The list goes on, and I do not know how many you would experience yourself on a day to day basis however know:
- That it ain’t healthy to hold on to it,
- It’s not healthy to remain opinionated and whinging to other people as to how it should be
- It’s not healthy to blame another individual, create a ruckus and feel the tension develop in your forehead.
Because you have been gifted with a form of perception that another may not, it must be equally matched with a degree of self-control and committment to staying non-judgemental. Compassion is key, because if we lose that for another, we start to More >
Project Management is About Visualisation
Nov 27th
Task: Manage a project from start to finish, and bring it to a bottom line of at least 15% profit
Method:
1. Comic book method. Used Microsoft powerpoint to develop a mind-map of the likely path the project would take including:
- Client objectives
- Design
- Authority approvals
- Arup objectives
2. Once the picture above was painted, I submitted to my brain for digestion.
3. As the project progressed, I produced a powerpoint slide encompassing the finer details of the road I had to travel. For example, if it involved a calculation, I used powerpoint slides to list out every step I’d have to carry out in order to complete the analysis. This could include:
- Technical references
- Software/tools
- People whom I needed to speak to
- Diagrams/illustrations
- Information I needed etc..
4. If things did not go as planned, I would go back to the big-picture to find clarity. What needed to change? What action could I use to steer it back to the main road? This was normally something I would then propose to the director to gain input as to how it should be dealt.
- Using it like a design tree!
5. At the end, I had a powerpoint presentation 30 slides in length. I used the content to write my report (the formality really).
6. Finito
Benefits:
- Tracks “thinking More >