Bored? be not!!!!!

It was an afternoon, I was in the office performing my duties as usual but the only difference was that it was not coming out as wanted by my boss, so I decided to give it a break and relax for a bit since I seemed to have reached the peak of my creative thinking.

So I decided to check my inbox and see if my usual spammer has forgotten to spam me. Then I came across my friends forward and decided to go through it, Just from the beginning it got me interested, when I reached the end I found myself scrolling up again so I can read it once again, Suddenly I felt energized and just in the middle of laughing, my boss entered and I had to change my smiley face to serious one at work, So I decided to forward this to him and see his reaction. The next day he called me to his office and told me to be forwarding such emails to him, waaaaaa!!!!! I was surprised.

Here is the message from the forward:

1. If time doesn’t wait for you, don’t worry! Just remove the damn battery on the clock and enjoy life!

2. Expecting the world to treat you fairly is like expecting a lion not to attack you coz you are a vegetarian. Think about it.

3. Beauty isn’t measured by outer appearance and what clothes you ware but what you are inside, so try going out naked tomorrow and see the admiration you will get.

4. Don’t walk as if you rule the world, walk as if you don’t care who rules the world, that’s called attitude! Keep on rocking.

5. Every lady hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did and her son is convinced that her son will never a wife as good as his father did!!!

6. All desirable things in life are either illegal, banned, expensive or married to someone else

7. 10% of road accidents are due to drunk driving, which makes it a logical statement that 90% of accidents are due to driving without drinking!

Before you delete those forwards, just open them and see what they’ve got. The might energize and amuse like it just happened to me, they can even get you close to your boss, who knows?

Why are people afraid to ASk?

I borrowed a book from my workmate going by the tittle “How to Get from Where you Are to Where You Want to Be” The 25 Principles of Success by Jack Canfield.
This book has been very inspiring to me since it has so much reality in it and can help one transform for the best.

When I got to rule 15, I thought it would be wise of me to try share it with you since it may be happening to you or has happened to you or someone you might know. It is about asking, and the question is “why are people afraid to ask”……..and the answer is may be they are afraid of looking needy, looking foolish or looking stupid but mostly people are afraid of experiencing rejection which comes with the word ‘NO’.

What I realized is that when you fear to ask, you thinking the answer will be No, you are the one rejecting yourself before others do, or when you want to give an opinion and you think it will be rejected, you are the one rejecting it before others do.

This happens to us at work, home, in relationships, at school and even with our friends. I remember in class, I feared answering questions thinking my answer is wrong only for someone else to answer exactly they way I wanted to answer it and our teacher would say it is correct then all of us who did not answer would get some punishment for not participating in class.

Don’t always assume that you will get a No. Take the risk to ask for whatever you want and need. If they say No, you are no worse than when you started and if they say Yes, you are a lot better off.

It costs nothing to Ask, and you will loose nothing by asking whether the answer is a No or a Yes, learn to ask because if you keep quite you might loose the best life has for you like a promotion at work, salary raise, a time off, a date or even a friend.