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How Much Does Stress Weigh?
A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised
a glass of water and asked, "How heavy is this glass of water?"
Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g.
The lecturer replied, "The absolute weight doesn't matter.
It depends on how long you try to hold it."
"If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem. If I hold it for
an hour,
I'll have an ache in my right arm.
If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance.
"In each case, it's the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the
heavier it becomes."
He continued, "And that's the way it is with stress management.
If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden
becomes increasingly heavy, we won't be able to carry on."
"As with the glass of water, you have to put it down for a while
and rest before holding it again.
When we're refreshed, we can carry on with the burden."
"So, be! fore you return home tonight, put the burden of work down.
Don't carry it home. You can pick it up tomorrow. Whatever burdens
you're carrying now, let them down for a moment if you can.
Relax; pick them up later after you've rested. Life is short. Enjoy
it!"
And then he shared some ways of dealing with the burdens of life:
Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the
statue.
Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to
eat them.
Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be recalled by their
maker.
You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the
world to one person.
We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty
and some are dull. Some have weird names, and all are different
colors, but they all have to live in the same box.
No Child Left Behind
The Basketball Version
All teams must advance to the Sweet 16, and all will
win the championship. If a team does not win the championship, they
will be on probation until they are the champions, and coaches will
be held accountable.
All kids will be expected to have the same basketball
skills at the same time and in the same conditions. No exceptions
will be made for interest in basketball, a desire to perform athletically,
or genetic abilities or disabilities. ALL KIDS WILL PLAY BASKETBALL
AT A PROFICIENT LEVEL.
Talented players will be asked to practice on their
own without instruction. This is because the coaches will be using
all their instructional time with the athletes who aren’t interested
in basketball, have limited athletic ability or whose parents don’t
like basketball. Games will be played year round, but statistics
will only be kept in the 4th, 8th, and 11th games.
This will create a New Age of sports where every school
is expected to have the same level of talent and all teams will
reach the same minimal goals. If no child gets ahead, then no child
will be left behind.
http://www.bullyonline.org/
"Bullying is constant criticism, nit-picking, fault-finding,
undermining, isolation, exclusion, being singled out, marginalized,
belittled, humiliated, shouted at, threatened, overloaded, your
work and credit for it stolen, responsibility increased but authority
taken away, leave refused, training denied, unrealistic goals and
deadlines, hypocrisy, duplicity, fabrication, distortion, twisting
everything you say and do, abuse of disciplinary procedures, imposition
of verbal/written warnings for trivial reasons, unfair dismissal."
The Dead Horse
Conventional wisdom says that when you discover you
are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However,
in practice we often observe other strategies, including:
1. Buying a stronger whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Saying things like "This is the way we always have ridden this
horse."
4. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
5. Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses.
6. Increasing the standards to ride dead horses.
7. Appointing a tiger team to revive the dead horse.
8. Creating a training session to increase our riding ability.
9. Comparing the state of dead horses in today's environment.
10. Change the threshold of "dead" declaring that "This horse is
not dead." 11. Hire contractors to ride the dead horse.
12. Harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed.
13. Declaring that "No horse is too dead to beat."
14. Providing additional funding to increase the horse's performance.
15. Do a Study to see if contractors can ride it cheaper.
16. Purchase a product to make dead horses run faster.
17. Declare the horse is "better, faster and cheaper" dead.
18. Form a quality circle to find uses for dead horses.
19. Revisit the performance requirements for horses.
20. Say this horse was procured with cost as an independent variable.
21. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position.
22. Develop an incentive awards program to encourage the dead horse
to perform at acceptable levels.
The year 1904
The year is 1904 ... one hundred years ago.
What a difference a century makes!
Here are some of the U.S. statistics for 1904:
The average life expectancy in the U.S. was 47 years.
Only 14 percent of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub.
Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.
A three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars.
There were only 8,000 cars in the U.S., and only 144 miles of paved
roads.
The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.
Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily
populated than California. With a mere 1.4 million residents, California
was only the 21st most populous > state in the Union.
The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower.
The average wage in the U.S. was 22 cents an hour. >
The average U.S. worker made between $200 and $400 per year.
A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year, a dentist
$2,500 per year, a veterinarian between $1,500 and $4,000 per year,
and a mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year.
More than 95 percent of all births in the U.S. took place at home.
Ninety percent of all U.S. physicians had no college education.
Instead, they attended medical schools, Many of which were condemned
in the press and by the government as "Substandard."
Sugar cost four cents a pound. Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen.
Coffee was fifteen cents a pound
Most women only washed their hair once a month, and used borax or
egg yolks for shampoo. Canada passed a law prohibiting poor people
from entering the country for any reason.
The five leading causes of death in the U.S. were: 1. Pneumonia
and influenza 2. Tuberculosis 3. Diarrhea 4. Heart disease 5. Stroke
The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii,
and Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet.
The population of Las Vegas, Nevada, was 30.
Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn't been invented.
There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
Two of 10 U.S. adults couldn't read or write. Only 6 percent of
all Americans had graduated high school.
Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter
at corner drugstores. According to one pharmacist, "Heroin clears
the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach
and bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health."
Eighteen percent of households in the U.S. had at least one full-time
servant or domestic. There were only about 230 reported murders
in the entire U.S.
Try to imagine what it may be like in another 100 years ...
What
we want to see is the child in pursuit of knowledge,
NOT knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Bernard Shaw
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