Quote:Work Life Balance

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Quote of the day

"When you will be on your deathbed, you sure will NOT wish that you spend more time working."

This is the hard truth, but it needs to be said. In this fast moving modern world, we all feel obliged to put in more hours, more efforts, eking to become and remain more relevant in relation to what is popularly perceived as being successful. In this pursuit, we end losing touch with what actually brings us peace and happiness. The things that we really love doing.

Now don't get me wrong, I am not saying that working is not important but rather, putting emphasis on the importance of striking a balance between what we have to do, work, and what we love to do.

Life is to short to focus most of our energies towards what we do because we have to, rather than what we do, not only because we always want to but even more, love to do, for the joy and serenity it brings us.

Am I making sense?

WTF: What The Fact: Weird Undercover Agents

 Animals incarcerated for alleged espionage.

You sure won't believe this. You just can't make this up... Here is a list of some of animals incarcerated for alleged espionage.

1. Spy Squirrels Ring Nabbed

In 2007, fourteen squirrels were arrested in Iran. Yes, you read correctly. Fourteen squirrels were spotted near a nuclear enrichment plant and taken in for questioning by the Iranian army. What was their crime? What were they being charged with? Espionage. Apparently they were “spy squirrels.”

2. Spying Pigeon

So apparently, the pigeon above, was captured by Indian police on suspicion it was an 'undercover agent' for Pakistan.The poor bird, booked by the Indian cops as a "suspected spy" according to The Guardian. 

“Nothing adverse has been found, but we have kept the bird in our custody,” senior police superintendent Rakesh Kaushal told local media. 

3. The Snooping Vulture

A Griffon Vulture is seen at the veterinary clinic at the Ramat Gan Safari Zoo, near Tel Aviv January 29, 2016. The vulture from an Israeli nature reserve with an Israeli identification ring and location transmitter was captured by residents of the south Lebanese town of Bint Jbeilon on suspicion of espionage after flying across the border.

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Baz Ratner/Reuters

4. The 'OO7' Duck

A French "spy" "duck" in custody in Egypt. 

Credit:

State media

Several alert Egyptian citizens alerted authorities to what was reported as a 'spy duck' with a surveillance device, or bomb, on its back. Authorities arrested the bird, a French research subject. When a veterinarian established the device was, in fact, a tracker, and the bird was, in fact, a stork, police moved to release the bird. The stork's whereabouts are unknown, but last anyone heard, the stork was waiting for the prosecutor to sign off on its release. But that's not the strangest animal accusation Egypt has made...

5. The Eerie Dolphin

Credits to The World

In another case of Israel supposedly coopting wildlife, a dolphin was acting fishy off Gaza, and attracted the attention of Hamas's Qassam Brigade Naval Commandos. Upon investigating, they found what was described as "a murderer" of a dolphin, equipped with a surveillance package. As usual, no photos of the dolphin nor its equipment were released. The dolphin's whereabouts are unknown.  

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Better Relationships:Lets Understand Each Other

 Today I have a slightly unconventional blog post. So as I was composing this post, I asked my brother what he thought about my theme. His feedback wasn't that encouraging. He said, without a second thought or query to my actual meaning/agenda, in his words...

"Utasound mtiaji.."

Meaning that this would, supposedly, comes out somewhat 'noseyish' and snobbish. And don't get me wrong, I sure do respect his opinion but then, I digress, and this is what I think about it.

In as much as I think, obviously he ought to know me good enough to  at the very least, understand me better.. But then, I apparently think that he misunderstands me. This brings me to my point.

A lot of us tend to make the mistake of letting our, usually biased, presumptions, lead us to the, most of times, conclusion that we know whomever we have in our social circles. I too, I must confess, have done this countless times and time and time again I discover how wrong I was.

Currently, realizing how many times I have actually been a victim of being misconceived, in this case, in my very own backyard, gets me rethinking the state of affairs with all my other social, as well as, kindred relative connections. Do I, or even better, Do we really know each other as we ought to? Does this really affect our relationships? 

In my quest for answers I came across this content. I hope you and me will learn something from this.

...You must first understand the walls that people build up, and the barriers that you have placed in your way, too.  

When people reveal themselves to others, the truth only comes to light in layers.

The first layer: is the layer people show to you when you are a stranger. 

The second layer is the one people show when they feel comfortable with you. 

The third personal layer is kept in reserve for those who have intimate relationships with you. 

The fourth layer is the innermost part of people that they don’t share with anyone.

To read others, you need to get through their layers. You don’t have to go all the way to the intimate level, of course, but the farther in your access is, the more reliable your reading will be. 

To read people, you must also remove the barriers you place between you and others. These barriers are your projections and your prejudices. 

Come With Open Hands.

To read people effectively, you must be totally objective, which means having empty hands. You will need to overcome your projections and prejudices too, in order to be objective.

Be patient. Fill your hands slowly with information, so that your conclusions are not rushed. Don’t be so impatient that you miss the big picture. Allow pictures to fully develop, so that you don’t become embarrassed or disappointed...

Citation: How to Analyze People by James Jared

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