Thank You!
Creative Inspiration
As I sit by the fire with my colleagues from work at night, protesting the injustice of being made redundant within six minutes notice by a big company.
There are people who have worked in this plant for around 20 years or more as a happy family by giving their best possible effort in their jobs. They didn't expect this sudden closure of the plant.
We are looking back at many happy days of working in the plant, but in my mind I am repeatedly asking questions: will I find a job tomorrow? How do I feed my family, pay monthly bills and mortgage?
The atmosphere at the protest is very tense; many people are in desperate situations, in fear that they will lose their homes. Some already cancelled their's holiday to Canada, Australia and many other places in Asia.
The morale is low, but it's not the end of the world. There are no jobs. You search for jobs, look for them hungrily, and come home empty handed, thinking of tomorrow and how to feed a family.
A quote from the past breaks through my conscience: "When you are broke, the only thing you have is creativity."
In today's world, the media is very powerful. More or less everyone enjoys it. We use it to our advantage; every one of us has a sort of hidden talent.
Why do many people not use these hidden talents to their advantage, to lift up the morale of being jobless, to looking forward to a new world? By doing so, we channel our energy in a new direction, to be better people. The oppurtunities in challenges are there to be encountered.
We can find that a new way of earning a living can make life enjoyable, and possibly give the oppurtunities never given before, maximising the resources available to broaden the talent from within.
Prepare your curriculum vitae,get ideas for resumes and letters.
By: George Mitra
you
have one big teachable moment to bring home to the family.
Good Things to Remember
When you've been sacked or made redundant,
So make the most of it to give
your children positive, confidence-building lessons that will
carry them throughout their lives-in both bad and good times
that are sure to come:
* Prepare your curriculum vitae,get ideas for resumes and letters.
* Self-worth doesn't depend on status, status symbols, or job
titles.
* Money is not the way to measure value.
* Fun can be free.
* Money-tight times won't last forever.
* Money worries might change your life, but they won't
wreck it.
* Positive thinking leads to creative, solution-oriented
thinking.
* Everyone inside the family circle is safe-including the pets.
* Everyone inside the family circle is important-including
the pets.
* Teamwork starts at home.
* Uncertainty doesn't mean certain catastrophe.
* It's fun to find creative ways to save money.
* Manage stress with games, exercise, laughter, and quiet
times-no alcohol, drugs, yelling, arguing, or hurting
others.
* Don't let others manipulate you into feeling anxious.
* You don't need a job to make a difference.
* Happiness doesn't depend on having money.
* You can always make things better for someone else.
* Little kindnesses can make a big difference.
* Borrowing (anything but money) can be better than buying.
* Sharing is fun.
* Don't judge others; everyone is coping the best way they
know how.
* Discipline helps to make dreams come true.
* Later can be better than now.
* Later doesn't mean never.
* What you have is not the same as who you are.
There is always plenty to be grateful for.
The first thing you should do:
Reach out to people you care about and trust and allow
them to be your support mechanism. Don't isolate
yourself.
You control your identity. It's time to define yourself by what
impassions you, not by who employs you. Who are you really?
You control your self-worth. Your identity and self-worth are
much more interwoven with each other than they are with any
job you could possibly have. Many people are able to make a
career out of the values and missions that ignite their personal
passion. Lucky them. But even when those jobs go away, that
doesn't mean that their self-respect necessarily plummets.
Remember the quote "If there's a will there's a way".
If there's a will there's a way
Bank holiday here in UK, We went to Brighton for a day out.We spent the day in cloudy, showery windy weather, occasionally the sun was joking at us.
What can you do, you are already there.
At the corner of Brighton pier, this old retired gentleman around 75yrs old making paper origami shapes. Young kids are loving it as their parents.
The very interestng selling technique was "NO asking price" as long as the money was handed to him by the kids.
I waited to ask him how long he has been doing this origami shapes, I was shocked to learn only two months with the help of a man who had given some printed instructions how to make origami shapes.
He said its very hard to survive the money he gets from the government and he needed extra money,and here's he is working for a living in a respectable manner.
He roughly earns around pound 70 to pound 110 a day.As there's no fixed price, parents emotions does count towards his determination to earn a honest living.
I love meeting people and learn a lot of life's experiences.