It was bound to happen eventually. I worked in the computer industry for years and eventually, you get bitten by a bug. Sometimes they’re little and sometimes they’re big. Although we were down for several hours, this didn’t turn out to be a big one, just something not under our control. Up to this point, our hosting service has done a good job of maintaining availability. Sometime earlier today, they applied maintenance and accidentally put us temporarily on the disabled list. It’s all better now and hopefully we’ve had our 1 in a 1,000 occurrence. Sorry for the inconvenience. Now that you’re here, please go to Ellie’s post, Such is the Power – A Lament.
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You’re probably wondering what the heck I’m doing. I just wrote Ending the Happiness Deficit and now I’m defending sadness. Am I crazy? Well, maybe just a little. First let me clear one thing up. Despite what your average Thesaurus will tell you, I don’t agree that sadness is the opposite of happiness. For me whining is the opposite of happiness. We choose to whine. We take a perfectly good day and make it into an unhappy one. Disagree with me if you must, but I’m declaring whining to be the opposite of happiness.
And it got me to thinking: how often do we do too much of what we’re good at JUST BECAUSE we are good at it??? I teach a management class to graduating university seniors and I cite a French company that is preparing its managers to lead globally – to work in other countries and be successful – by helping them see the line they cross when using their strengths (whatever they may be) too much. Continue reading » Too Much of a Good Thing?I’ve made a decision. I’m going to be irresponsible – at least for a little while. I don’t know about you, but sometimes I just feel stuck. Life goes on day-to-day, some days good, some not so good. The interesting thing is that here I am in the middle of this new blog venture, and yet I’m looking for some major change that will make me feel “better.” |
 Take a short break and consider the following: “My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.” Unknown 
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