How to Enjoy Life
October 11th, 2007 by Peter Clemens
In The Magic of Starting Small, I made the point that it is your days that define your life. In this article, I want to challenge the common perception that it is only possible to enjoy your leisure time. In particular, this article is targeted at the professional stuck in the 9 to 5 grind who longs for the weekend and, in the process, has given up on trying to find pleasure in the ordinary experiences we have every day.
1. Appreciate Beauty. Each day we come across beauty in a number of shapes and forms. It’s a shame, then, that many people have become so accustomed to this beauty that it largely goes unappreciated. I suggest looking again at the people, plants, gadgets, and buildings (to name but a few examples) around you and taking a moment to appreciate what makes them so special.
2. Connect With Nature. Nature is an amazing healer for the stresses and strains of modern life. Eating lunch in the park, attending to a vegetable garden in your backyard, or watching the sunset are just a few simple ideas for how you can enjoy the outdoors on a daily basis.
3. Laugh. E. E. Cummings once said “the most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” How very true. Never be too busy to laugh, or too serious to smile. Instead, surround yourself with fun people and don’t get caught up in your own sense of importance.
4. Have Simple Pleasures. A good cup of coffee when I first wake. Time spent playing with my 8 month old son. Cooking a nice meal in the evening. These may not seem terribly exciting, but they are some of the simple pleasures I enjoy in life. If you slow down for just a moment and take the time to appreciate these ordinary events, life becomes instantly more enjoyable.
5. Connect With People. In so many ways, it is our relationships with people that give us the most happiness in life. Perhaps, then, the best way to enjoy your work more is not to get a raise or a promotion, but rather to build rewarding relationships with your co-workers.
6. Learn. There is a strong link between learning and happiness. Given this, there is no excuse not to be stimulating your brain and learning something new each day. My favorite way to find time for learning is to make the most of the commute to and from work. Audiobooks and podcasts are great for this purpose.
7. Rethink Your Mornings and Evenings. Are the mornings a mad rush for you to get out the door? Do you switch off the TV at night and go straight to bed? I have personally experienced the profound benefits of establishing a routine in the morning and evening. For example, in the morning you may choose to wake an hour earlier and spend the time working on yourself, whether it be reading, writing or exercising. In the evening, consider spending some time just before bed reviewing your day or in meditation.
8. Celebrate Your Successes. During a normal day we are sure to have some minor successes. Perhaps you have successfully dealt with a difficult customer, made a sale, or received a nice compliment for your work. These aren’t events worth throwing a party for, but why not take a moment to celebrate your success? Share the experience with someone else, reward yourself with a nice lunch, or just give yourself a mental pat on the back.
Peter writes about how to enjoy life at The Change Blog.
So after 4 nights nonstop life purpose discussion, you finally left. Thank you "Cave Man" for called me and told me if you have the good memories in China is all because the good time you had in Beijing. Seriously, in the beginning, your just some random person came to my life by my good friend sent you from Montreal, it ended up everything worked so well between us.
These days and nights, we were talking nonstop about family, relationship, life goal, etc. for at least 20hrs, especially the last night we missed the last metro, and walked to the bus stop but still missed the bus and was talking all the time at the bus stop. It seems like we dun want to end up our conversation cuz then we will probably not gonna see each other again after this goodbye. So we ended up at your place but nothing seriously happened. We stayed up talking till 530am in the morning and we slept. We kissed, you hugged me and touch me and my hair... and --> And we had breakfast and you walked me to the Metro station. "If you come to Montreal or Quebec, give me a call!!" And... So Long!
A bit weird, yes! Feels a bit weird, like we just worked so well together. Ahh..
Around 5pm, you called and told me thanks me for everything, and you were being so polite.
You should,
the last call from you.
And we are done.
So that's life,
At least we all had a good memories together.
*naf Do says: (4:10:57 PM)
你現在中文有大陸腔嗎
*naf Do says: (4:11:00 PM)
上次聽是沒有
Jennyfer.L says: (4:11:01 PM)
我說對啊∼去哪去哪
*naf Do says: (4:11:01 PM)
呵呵
Jennyfer.L says: (4:11:03 PM)
哈
Jennyfer.L says: (4:11:06 PM)
應該看人說吧
Jennyfer.L says: (4:11:21 PM)
如果跟這裡的人說就會說有腔
Jennyfer.L says: (4:11:28 PM)
跟台灣人說就台灣腔
Jennyfer.L says: (4:11:35 PM)
跟外人說就外國腔
Jennyfer.L says: (4:11:40 PM)
我也不知道....我很奇怪
Jennyfer.L says: (4:12:03 PM)
我跟大陸人說話 他們說我是台灣
Jennyfer.L says: (4:12:15 PM)
我跟我台灣朋友說話他們說我說北京腔
Jennyfer.L says: (4:12:26 PM)
我跟我英國佬板說話他說我是美國人
Jennyfer.L says: (4:12:36 PM)
我跟我在美國叔叔講話他說我有英國腔
Jennyfer.L says: (4:12:47 PM)
:|
Jennyfer.L says: (4:13:01 PM)
喔∼還有人說我是普通話說得很好的韓國人
*naf Do says: (4:14:07 PM)
你有因為這樣迷失自己嗎
Jennyfer.L says: (4:15:52 PM)
我覺得我是30%chinese..20%american...15%european 15%Latino 10%japanese 10%不詳
Jennyfer.L says: (4:16:17 PM)
我也不知道我是哪裡 有點迷失
*naf Do says: (4:17:20 PM)
忘記國籍
*naf Do says: (4:17:23 PM)
會更自由
Jennyfer.L says: (4:17:29 PM)
阿哈哈
Jennyfer.L says: (4:17:43 PM)
我才不會忘記
Jennyfer.L says: (4:17:47 PM)
只是我沒有被束縛
*naf Do says: (4:19:12 PM)
嗯
*naf Do says: (4:19:14 PM)
那就好
*naf Do says: (4:19:24 PM)
定義是xx人還是yy人
*naf Do says: (4:19:33 PM)
很煩，也不見得有意義
Jennyfer.L says: (4:24:11 PM)
恩恩
Jennyfer.L says: (4:24:16 PM)
我是火星人
*naf Do says: (4:24:40 PM)
希望地球還有來自火星的男人
*naf Do says: (4:24:43 PM)
不然你就寂寞了
Jennyfer.L says: (4:25:21 PM)
你這話真實在
Finally I got my first break(hope is not the last) after I started working in Beijing. As this Chinese New Year I will not be able to go back home, my friend invites me to his home in Harbin and enjoy with the family. Harbin!? Never thought about one day I am going there, I can't even imagine what is the city look like. It's very close to Russia, it's the northest city in China. 東北三省最北省，黑龍江省的省會。Gosh, it's just crazy when I think about I am actually going to the northest place in the coldest time in the entire year. Not to mentioned I am from the warm, humidity souther land. I did some research, and post the map here, and I will post some blog and pic later after I get back from my trip!! Can't wait!!
這幾天我在想，是不是哲學訓練出來的人，都有那種自然而然的通病。對事物求是求真，追求真理的態度，在各個部份皆是。尤其是那些沒辦法一眼看穿的事物，比方說感情。那個人，那個感情，想用一切邏輯分析證據推理去找到真理。什麼真理呢？那個人是不是真心的？他的真實面目是什麼？那個感情是不是有意義？邏輯分析啊∼推理驗證∼
問題是感情這種事，談不了真理。感覺是變動的，愛情也是不定的，推理了這一刻也不保證下一秒也是如此。推理出了這個人的真實面目，只會讓其無地自容。因為沒有人會很開心當他們的缺點被暴露。 哲學訓練的女人很聰明，聰明到男人可能會害怕。因為這樣的感情是不容任何祕密。因為這些祕密透過分析就會露出紕漏。可能就是這樣，我們哲學係中哲學毒很深的女老師不是半百單身就是修女。要不就是他先生也是念哲學的。突然發現這樣的事實還挺可怕的。看來不是所有的事都要求是求真，尤其是感情。
星期日晚上，Yenny找我去一個教會主辦的RocknRoll演唱會。因為上班原因，我只去了一個小時多。當現場幾百人很嗨的跳躍高唱Jesus, God, Lord....我突然有種自我墮落到沒辦法在上帝面前很開心，我不是基督徒，但那一刻我覺得我離上帝比以前要遠的多，大概是因為....我手上沒有啤酒...然後我想到海角七號裡的keyboard小妹；“上帝把我趕出來的！"我大概也是被上帝趕出來的吧！
So today I signed up for a "Taiwanese Only" website. Its more or less like a regional blog and let people get to know you. Because we all are from Taiwan, it makes the distance immediately shorter. And I got "special service" so now I had over 300 visitor who checked my blog. Seriously I don't know what to post on my blog, so I just posted some random shoots with my friends these days, and they are like "what??We dun have to taking care of you anymore.." I know I am just not that typical Taiwanese, but there is nothing wrong with that right? I want to make more friends and build some connections here in Beijing or China, I guess there is nothing wrong with it. Besides, no one seriously know what I have been through when
the first months arrived here. My mainland Chinese friends and Indian friend and so on helps me a lot, because I don't know any single Taiwanese here in that time. After I settle down and started making connections, I got to know Taiwanese, which is way better and seriously enhance my life here. I feel happy!
Btw, http://twinasia.com/uchome/space.php.
This is the link.
"When a guy says you're hot, he's looking at your body,
When a guy says you're pretty, he's looking at your face,
When a guy says you're beautiful, he's looking at your heart."
Its 8 months already...Can't believe it has been such a long time. Time passed extremely fast, where can I find a person like you? I screwed everything till now I just realized. It's okay, you still here, here in my deeply mind. Happy New Year, you.
昨天晚上是聖誕夜，聖誕夜是一個家人團聚的時刻就像除夕夜一樣。 於是我邊工作邊想著自己突然很想家。很想家嗎？也不是每天都很想，平常都不太想；但這種過年的時刻就特別的想。特別的想....然後想到新年也沒得回去就覺得很惆悵。 然後雖然很多朋友在身邊，但那種惆悵實在沒法說。 也可以說是寂寞.....或是其實就是週期性的鬱悶。
最近不小心的又陷入一種很煩惱的情況。
就是每次都感覺有點自找麻煩的感覺...尤其在談感情這方面。
一切都還好，至少到目前為止。 不過我自己總覺得沒有很多時間陪我是很讓人討厭的事，我知道我自己也忙....我喜歡有Passion的人, 但更渴望有辦法平衡生活中每件事的人,而不是只是個Workholic.
一個事業成功的人...應該會有很多寂寞。 但財富可以戰勝寂寞嗎？ 財富能讓男人變成富翁，但不一定快樂；能讓女人變成貴婦...但可能也變成怨婦...不過沒有錢也快樂不起來.....
所以平衡是重要的吧。
讓自己快樂是很重要的吧。
找到Passion of Life是最重要的吧。
聖誕節快樂！: )
詹偉雄：創新≠創造 【聯合報╱詹偉雄】 2008.12.21 01:57 am 什麼是「經濟衰退」？所有的企業都應該恐懼「經濟衰退」嗎？
衰退到復甦 靠技術革新
今日登場：詹偉雄
關 於經濟衰退的解釋有很多種，但台灣比較少人注意奧地利籍經濟學家熊彼得的說法，他的主張是：每次的衰退都是一次「商業周期」探底的過程，其成因來自於「舊 生產方式」無法滿足市場需求，因而廠商商品售價降低、利潤遞減而終面臨退出市場的絕境，但也每每在景氣谷底時，社會就會出現一批新的創業家，他們帶來「新 生產方式」，生產出超乎顧客預期的產品，此時廠商利潤遞增並吸引更多追隨者，經濟也開始成長，直到此一「新生產方式」失去力量，褪色為「舊生產方式」為 止。因而，每一次的衰退，都包括著一次技術革新的可能，而每一次技術革新的結果，也預期著下一次衰退的到來。
在熊彼得的研究裡，「不安於現狀的創業家」以及他們「對舊生產方式的無情破壞」，才是推動經濟復甦的根本力量（而非凱因斯學派的「擴大公共支出」或是貨幣學派的「寬鬆貨幣供給」），用這層思考來思索台灣的過去與未來，實在具有高度的啟發性。
製造業創新 拉台灣起飛
戰後台灣半世紀的經濟發展，最大的特色是琢磨出一批批具有高度「創新」能力的製造業產業聚落，它們以「製造」為經濟行動的核心，在電子科技產業和傳統工業 領域的一次次起落循環中，從量產技術、品質控制、材料研發、供應鍊管理到產品的工業設計分別衝撞出各種熊彼得式的「破壞式創新」，這使得ODM（設計代工 服務）此一產業模式幾乎成為台灣專擅於世界的專利，其他國家欲學習而始終不可得。近年來，台灣的電腦代工廠商獲利能力甚至遠超過委託它們設計代工的國際品 牌原廠，即是台灣ODM產業創新能力的外在表徵。
創新遇瓶頸 社會很焦慮
然而，既然台灣ODM產業如此具有競爭力，那為何「憂慮」聲音不斷呢？我個人的看法是，這種焦慮，其實是我們衡諸台灣現有與未來的社會條件後，所產生的一 種「創新的瓶頸感」，它意味著：台灣難以再靠「製造業」裡各個企業對價值鍊的局部「破壞式創新」，就能夠打造新「商業周期」，其原因並非我們缺乏技術、資 本與資源，而在於我們缺乏自許為第二個王永慶或郭台銘的「破壞式創業家」。
對一九七○年代後出生的台灣年輕世代而言，需要「高度自我壓抑」、「苦行僧般節慾」、「信仰客戶」、「集體紀律」的ODM生命圈，是難以與他們的自我意象 相吻合的———隨著台灣這第一批「自由世代」的成人化與社會化，他們早已表現出與ODM社會的格格不入（「草莓族」稱號其來有自），同時也在許多不起眼的 角落，帶來一些中年人眼中「革命性、但產能不大的全新生產技術」（譬如獨一無二的咖啡烘焙、麵包製作、指甲彩繪與燒肉店經營），比起父兄為追求生存的財富 與社會肯定而奮鬥，他們更在乎「工作個體性」、「事業主體性」的追求——和不斷改良先人成果的「創新」（innovation）比起來，全然耳目一新、更 能自我肯證生命存在的差異化意義之「創造」（creation），似乎不得不地成為他們的優位選擇。有趣的是：我們中年菁英不斷譴責成績愈來愈爛的大學 生，卻從不深思這群人之中會不會誕生出像比爾‧蓋茲、史蒂夫‧賈伯斯和麥可‧戴爾這類大學沒畢業、但卻全然改變世界商業規則的人。
創造的世代 何必怕衰退
「創新」，必須有跡可循，但「創造」卻得無中生有，其差別，在於創業家是否有定義產品的視野與抱負、生活中能否經歷豐富的他者世界，而又有足夠的想像力。由「創新」到「創造」的轉折與痛苦，台灣目前正經歷於其中，一旦明白了這原委，我們又何必擔心衰退……。
（作者為學學文創志業副董事長、《數位時代》總主筆）
【2008/12/21 聯合報】
These days I don't even get time to update my blog. It sounds like an excuse but I am really not in the mood to do these things. Even I know the monthly photo shoot project I set for myself need to be complete. It will, by the end of this month.
Since I am not in the mood to write a full article this time. I decide to present it as a point list.
1. 北京真的很冷...现在已经都会下小冰....不过太干了...
前几天还听到一个名词叫 “加湿器” 一开始真不知道是做什
么的，好吧！大概是我比较笨....
“加湿器”刚好跟”除湿机“相反.....只是我真的一辈子到现在才
知道也有人需要增加湿度......
2. These days I am really busy for different things. Work(Of course.), Friends(Yeah...definitely.), Romantic Affair(Good for health). And I catch cold.(I think its the result from above.) I haven't get enough sleep this two days, I think I only slept 8hrs between. Especially I am the person used to sleep a lot. I guess its not good for body, I think I became stupid today.Hehe.
3. I have so many points what I've saw and how I feel from Beijing in my mind. One thing I feel strong is;
I think "China have no boundary."
Not the geological boundary or what so ever. Its like there is no law here, no rule here. People will be able to do what they want(In a bad way) without consider others right or feeling. Basically what I feel is people here are selfish, they care about themselves only. And they are not nice at all, they dun have good serving attitude, and they look up to people who are rich. They calculate everything by money. "how much you earn per month"= "how successful you are."
For girl around my age, "how much the guy earn per month" = "how much the guy is worthy to marry to."
China have no boundary also reflects on the moral value. One day I saw a lady about 30yrs old dressed nicely but was yelling to a lady about 60yrs old. She even kicked her and shout" Dun think your old so I wont kick you!!!Blah blah blah..." Oh, C'mon! Fight with a 30yrs older woman doesn't means your good. It does not at all. They don't even care about it. Very Strange people in this contemp China society.
Maybe next time I will be able to meet more these kinda weird but funny
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