Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Post Secret/ Left and Right Brain/ The Secret

Jan. 22 Post Secret:

Postcard: "Alex- I know you stood up for me all those years ago. Thank you."

Email:

There's only a tiny chance this secret was intended for me, but nonetheless - I'd like to thank the sender. I've been in a bit of a down patch, and this secret made me realise that I know there are people out there I've done well by, and maybe some who would want to thank me, too.

In return, I'd like to remind everyone of the same fact. There's always someone, who you wouldn't necessarily expect, who is grateful you exist.

Alex.

Email:

Frank,

My brother Alex died a couple months ago very suddenly at the age of 20 while studying abroad in London. This reminds me that he is not forgotten nor are his beautiful accomplishments of caring for others. Alexander means "defender, protector of mankind", and that is exactly who he was to so many people. Thank you for posting this secret and reminding me of who my brother was and how he impacted lives, even if it was for a tragically short time.

Postcard: "I feel like everyone's judging me."

I think everybody feels that. We all judge each other. When I go to job interviews, I know I'm being judged. Or at least they're getting to know me. Though I'm getting to know the job and the people there.

Jan. 25 Kindness article: I read an article in the Edmonton Journal called "Perceived kindness enhances flavor, reduces pain. It's written by Misty Harris. Kurt Gray who is a Calgarian who is social psychologist at the University of Maryland. There's an experiment about you give a box of candy to one group and there's a special note that says: "I picked this just for you. Hope it makes you happy." The other group got the candy and a note that it was picked randomly. The first group who got the special note, thought the candy tasted sweeter.

Gift tip: So a good gift tip is to write a little note with the gift you gave. It doesn't have to have to cost a lot of money, it's the thought put into it.

Prostitution: Also in the article, Kurt Gray says: "It's part of why buying a prostitute wouldn't be as fulfilling. You know they're not doing it for you, they're doing it for the money."

Maybe not as fulfilling, but fulfilling enough. Prostitution is still around, and there is such thing as the GFE or "Girlfriend Experience." The escort pretends to be your girlfriend.

Dateline: Now I'm going to bring up Dateline: To Catch a Predator again. The 35 yr old guy who dates a 12 yr old girl. I read a Youtube comment about: "Why doesn't he just buy an escort?" Because the guy knows he's paying someone to pretend to be in love with him. He thought a 12 yr old girl who is really in love with him, would be more fulfilling.

Yeah, well he's not going to really be in love with the 12 yr old. He should have hired an escort.

Funeral party: Also in the Edmonton Journal, there's an article "It's your funeral: Why not throw a party?" by William Hageman. Erika Dillman had wrote a book called The Party of Your Life: Get the Funeral You Want by Planning It Yourself.

The part that stood out was: "What a great message. If you have a great funeral that's fun, you're telling guests, I accept my death. By doing that, I believe you're helping your guests accept it. You're setting the tone. I'm okay with this, so they're okay with it."

Left and Right Brain: Helene Schmidt emailed this article through my blog. It's more like an infographic (pictures and words put into a diagram.) It looks like it would be in a magazine. You should take a look at it, it's fun.

When I was a kid and teenager, I would see myself as creative and artistic like the right-brain. In the article it says right-brains like cats, and are in psychic things. I would say I'm like that.

However, I looked at the left-brain section. I realized that when I got into adulthood like Professional Writing college, and into the working world, I have become more left-brain. I still don't like math and science. I'm very much a planner, linear, and sequence like in the article.

I am very left-brain with my job search, work, and reading the business section of the newspaper, magazines, and internet. So I'm going to use my right-brain a bit like in the below topic.

The Secret: A few weeks ago before I went to the Christmas party at work, I read The Secret at Chapters to bide my time. I read The Secret: Teen Power also between shifts at work.

Money: I read "The Secret: To Money" chapter in the first book. It talked about focused positive thinking. If you think about getting out of debt, but you are thinking of the word debt. You have to think of having enough money to support yourself.

There was a story about a guy who was making $8000 a yr. He applied the Secret, and he thought of selling his book that he wrote. He thought of the number $100,000 of how much money he would make from his book. He was able to make $90,000 something off it.

Another story was how every time this person gets a credit card bill, he thinks of it like he is getting checks in the mail. He thanks and acts happy when the credit card bill comes. If it says he owes $100 on it, he thinks of it like he got a $100 check. Then he started getting checks in the mail.

It's about the law of attraction. What you think, you attract.

Job: I was thinking about how I wanted to get more hours at work. The left-brain side of me thought of: "Ask your managers for more hours. Ask to get more hours in the two other departments you worked at before. Ask to be trained on the computer system. I did just that.

When I asked one manager for more hours, I received it. It just so happens that the restaurant will start opening later. We will have lunch again. In Restaurant #1, we used to have lunch. Then it closed down, and we were transferred to Restaurant #2 and we didn't have lunch. It was like that for a yr. Now Restaurant #2 opens for lunch. Is it the law of attraction working?

Call centres: But it was so weird today. So Call Centre #4 didn't call me back on Friday, so that means they didn't hire me. I then thought of Call Centre #5. Maybe I should apply there again. It's where you call people to get them to donate to charity. I worked there for 2 days and hated it, and they dismissed me.

I was on the internet yesterday and looked up people's comments talking about working at Call Centre #5. They said it was crappy, but if it wasn't for this call centre, the charity wouldn't be getting any money at all.

Today Call Centre #6 called me. I'm pretty sure I applied there back in 2010. Maybe in 2011. They called me today. We talked a bit, but I have to do more research and think about it. Since I get off work by 2:30pm, I would get home by 3:30pm.

Then when I'm home, I would have to take 40min to go to Call Centre #6. I could go to the library which is between my job and this place.

The law of attraction seems to be working here when I started thinking about call centres and suddenly one of them I haven't applied to in a long time calls me.

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