It’s as easy as that. Going through a day at work can be grooling. Especially if you don’t have your facts set straight. You shouldn’t view work as a pass time or as just something you do to make a living. Work should be something you love doing and, therefore, something you look forward to sharing.

There will come a time when you reach such a level of mastery in your line of work that you will have the opportunity to teach others and impart your knowledge. By all means, do so. You don’t what to become one of those persons that holds everything back and keeps things to himself, because at the end of you long day at work you’ll ask yourself, “What did I do today?” And it’s up to you what the answer to that question is.

Did you make the world a better place, one sand particle at a time? I hope so. What goes around comes around.

Thank you is a miraculous expression. We feel good when we say it, and we feel good when we hear it. When we speak or hear the words thank you, the armor falls from our hearts and we communicate on the deepest level.

Daisaku Ikeda

The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined roles. We need something to help us restore our lost and distorted humanity. Each of us has feelings that have been suppressed and have built up inside. There is a voiceless cry resting in the depths of our souls, waiting for expression. Art gives the soul’s feelings voice and form.

Daisaku Ikeda

“Even places that have been shrouded in darkness for billions of years can be illuminated. Even a stone from the bottom of a river can be used to produce fire. Our present sufferings, no matter how dark, have certainly not continued for billions of years-nor will they linger forever. The sun will definitely rise. In fact, its ascent has already begun.”

Daisaku Ikeda

You spend all your childhood dreaming about how your going to save the world by becoming a fireman or a doctor. But then you start growing up and enter that time in your life where you’re neither a child nor an adult. You’re still have brains the size of a peanut and the thinking power of an origami frog, yet you’re starting to develop ideas of your own and you’re starting to define what is and what isn’t right for you, a crucial part of your life.

Hold on to this part of your life. I’ve always been an enemy of holding on, but in this case I’ll make an exception. This is a phase when you acquire passion. Uninfluenced, pressure-free, unscathed-by-the-cruel-unrelenting-world passion.

Then, you start growing up. You’re forced to face that fact you YOU HAVE TO WORK. That or starve to death. And if somehow you manage to get a job (which is not that hard in a developed country), you start to realize that life is not what you thought it was and that YOU WANT OUT. Well guess what buddy boy, that’s not gonna happen. I’m not writing these passionate words just so you quit.

PASSION. Mix passion+humanism+work and you have the perfect equation to achieve a rich, fulfilled, and regret-free life. You will be reaching the golden pot at the en of the rainbow. So ask yourself, “What is my passion?”, and move with your chin up high in the direction in which you can exercise this passion of yours.

Keep training, it’s the only way…

Foresight, the first quality of the mind that Benjamin Franklin insists we strengthen when playing chess, is however a quality of pattern recognition. Foresight with pattern recognition trains your ability to move forward in spite of the obstacles.

Everyone has a dream job that they want. I want to be a mechanical engineer, working at my very own company. We’re all allowed to dream, but the question is… When do I decide to take that dream and make it a reality. When do I take hold of those loose and chaotic reins and steer that mechanical horse in the direction that I want to go through. Action is necessary, but more than action it is the determination that you WILL find that dream job.

Having said that, once you have such a resolve that is beyond contestation, your next task at hand is to find that job you want so much:

1. Take out a pen and paper.
2. Determine which job you want. List every single aspect of it in profound detail (what salary, what work environment, what boss, what coworkers, what location, everything)
3. Brainstorm a list of companies that offer that job with those details you just listed.
4. Visit, in person, every single one of those companies with resume in hand.
5. Ask if they, by any chance, have that job position opened, if they are hiring, and that you are the most appropriate man for the job.
   • Some will say no. No matter, leave you resume anyway.
   • Some will say yes, and give you an interview, or ask for a resume (good thing you brought it along huh?).

Now, you know what to do from here right? If not wait for my next post, where I will let you in on how to handle a job interview.

Well, this has been THE most complicated question I’ve had to answer for myself in the last year. How can you tell if a girl wants you as a friend or wants to be your girlfriend? It’s a good question my friend. Allow me to enlighten you.

When she wants to be your friend, one sure way of knowing it, is that she will tell you about her triumphs and defeats in love and war. She will in essence treat you like a confidante, and let you in on all of her dirty little secrets.

If she wants to be your girlfriend she will adopt a more secretive, more flirtsy sort of attitude towards you. Notice the play on words here. Flirtsy is the key word. If she’s just plain secretive and doesn’t let you in on anything, then she just plain doesn’t want anything to do with you, so move on.

Listen up boys and girls. Learn to value the female friends you manage to get. There are various reasons to do this:

1. They’re your window to the female mind.
2. They’re hot, and therefore raise your value in the eyes of other girls.
3. Who doesn’t like hot female friends. You can’t go wrong
4. Girls are usually better friends then guys, so they’ll be there for you.

I know you’ll be tempted to make them you girlfriends, but trust me, you’ll find much more value in a profound female friendship the on a one-night-stand or casual fling.