I'm drama-free and so can you! - Join the EDA Now!
Seriously, we all have friends who have waaaaaaaaaaayyyy too much drama in their life. We wonder, Why? It's not as hard from our perspective... just make a decision & stick to it, whatever it may be.
Perhaps the most frustrating thing about this 'drama' is that it is increasingly negative. We offer good advice, or so we think, often times our friend agrees with us and yet nothing changes. Some time later the same 'drama' arises and we innocently offer the same advice, perhaps with a different spin, and again nothing happens. After repeated offenses, we get tired and stop caring. Our attitude changes from a caring-one to a really-don't-care about this problem. What's worse, we feel like bad friends b/c we still like this person, we just don't like their problems. We can see that our friends do the same thing and mysteriously expect different results. Let me tell ya, not gonna happen!
The Excessive Drama Anonymous club allows friends and drama queens/kings to communicate openly. Friends can be honest about how excess drama is damaging their friendship and moreover our kings & queens are exposed, in a friendly environment, to situations MUCH MUCH worse than their own. Let us use a classic example: World Hunger. There are people starving to death in some countries. People who's biggest worry is what they will eat next and not what they'll do about a relationship they don't want to be in, a bad boss, or the horrible service they just received at a restaurant. We want to illustrate that this type of drama is actually a luxury that can easily be done away with. Of course not all drama is of the same nature, and we don't intend to eliminate drama altogether, this might put reality TV producers out of a job and in increasing hard economic times, we don't want to do that. However, we do want to reduce the amount of excess drama due to selfish, egocentric thinking by exposing our friends to problems much greater than theirs.
Stay posted for the soon-to-be formed EDA: Where people meet to find out how their problems are actually really small when put in perspective.
(Definition of drama-free: Overall positive attitude and positive problem solving skills. Ex: like fat-free milk still has a little fat in it - life will always have a little drama.)
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Friday, June 13, 2008
Music
Can someone explain this to me? I simply don't understand... We listen to music, we make music (or at least what we call music), some can't live without out it, others don't need it but I can't think of anyone who hates music. People hate genre's of music but everyone likes music somewhere, somehow. But WHY???
It transcends, cultural, ethnic & age barriers. It always touches us somehow... and it's not only the lyrics, it's the whole package. I fact, it doesn't even have to have lyrics. We listen to music when we are happy, sad, celebrating, mourning, bored, exercising... pretty much anywhere... and WHY?
Music truly permeates every aspect of society and yet I don't know why we need it. It's as if the frequencies resonate within our bodies and almost massage our hearing sense. And like with any massage, people have different preferences in this case Classical, R&B, Rock 'n Roll, etc... So, is it possible that our hearing sense is the most overindulged? I mean, how often do you get an eye massage for your vision (if there is such a thing)? or take the time to stare at something beautiful? Or how often do we touch things that 'feel' good? Of course there is the taste sense, but hey! if you don't eat you die, so that one doesn't count. Which brings us to our final sense, smell. In any given day, how many times do you seek those 'good' smelling things? You know, like bring an orange to work and sniffing it? (hehe, I like orange smell, obviously)
But still I am not convinced... any better ideas out there?
It transcends, cultural, ethnic & age barriers. It always touches us somehow... and it's not only the lyrics, it's the whole package. I fact, it doesn't even have to have lyrics. We listen to music when we are happy, sad, celebrating, mourning, bored, exercising... pretty much anywhere... and WHY?
Music truly permeates every aspect of society and yet I don't know why we need it. It's as if the frequencies resonate within our bodies and almost massage our hearing sense. And like with any massage, people have different preferences in this case Classical, R&B, Rock 'n Roll, etc... So, is it possible that our hearing sense is the most overindulged? I mean, how often do you get an eye massage for your vision (if there is such a thing)? or take the time to stare at something beautiful? Or how often do we touch things that 'feel' good? Of course there is the taste sense, but hey! if you don't eat you die, so that one doesn't count. Which brings us to our final sense, smell. In any given day, how many times do you seek those 'good' smelling things? You know, like bring an orange to work and sniffing it? (hehe, I like orange smell, obviously)
But still I am not convinced... any better ideas out there?
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Bajofondo Tango Club
Just last night we went to see this group and they were AWESOME. I fact this video doesn't do them as much justice as the live performance. Enjoy!
Crackberry
Apparently people addicted to Blackberries are said to be on Crackberry. I've heard of this term before and it actually makes sense when you hear it. But to see the actual addiction is actually quite... what should we call it... entertaining?
Just the other day I was waiting for the elevator with 3 other people from my same floor, but different offices. Except for me, everyone else had Blackberries and all were looking, very attentively, at their little devices. It struck me as funny, that only minutes after leaving their desk, they felt compelled to check their Blackberry.
I kept thinking about this as we waited for the elevator and decided to look at this from a different perspective. Giving them the full benefit of the doubt, let's assume that they were not checking e-mail. Well, what are the other possibilities - surf the web? check their calendar? check some document? hum... OK, I'm running out of ideas. Of course the aforementioned are all, most likely done better, quicker & more efficiently at the computer YOU WERE JUST AT.
Let's again step back and give them even more benefit of the doubt... maybe they just had a meeting and they are not leaving their office but rather going back to their office. It is obvious that you MUST check your e-mail, personal e-mail, voicemail, calendar, road trip itinerary, other people's calendar, etc... while waiting for the elevator. Those 2 minutes that it takes for the elevator to arrive will really allow you the time to focus, execute & deliver! Because, don't forget to maximize your 'elevator' time... while wasting those 2 hrs surfing the web when you are back at work.
The truth is that you don't want to talk to anyone. You don't want to accidentally make eye contact - why would you? you do after all live in a society. Be honest and look at the oh-so-interesting rug if you must, because both you and I know that those 2 min of checking your Crackberry really don't make much of a difference.
Just the other day I was waiting for the elevator with 3 other people from my same floor, but different offices. Except for me, everyone else had Blackberries and all were looking, very attentively, at their little devices. It struck me as funny, that only minutes after leaving their desk, they felt compelled to check their Blackberry.
I kept thinking about this as we waited for the elevator and decided to look at this from a different perspective. Giving them the full benefit of the doubt, let's assume that they were not checking e-mail. Well, what are the other possibilities - surf the web? check their calendar? check some document? hum... OK, I'm running out of ideas. Of course the aforementioned are all, most likely done better, quicker & more efficiently at the computer YOU WERE JUST AT.
Let's again step back and give them even more benefit of the doubt... maybe they just had a meeting and they are not leaving their office but rather going back to their office. It is obvious that you MUST check your e-mail, personal e-mail, voicemail, calendar, road trip itinerary, other people's calendar, etc... while waiting for the elevator. Those 2 minutes that it takes for the elevator to arrive will really allow you the time to focus, execute & deliver! Because, don't forget to maximize your 'elevator' time... while wasting those 2 hrs surfing the web when you are back at work.
The truth is that you don't want to talk to anyone. You don't want to accidentally make eye contact - why would you? you do after all live in a society. Be honest and look at the oh-so-interesting rug if you must, because both you and I know that those 2 min of checking your Crackberry really don't make much of a difference.
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