Blog Drive-Byes June 2007

RT from Untwisted Vortex has been sick for the last 3 weeks but is still blogging away. If you get a chance stop and wish him well.

For comedy and daily laughs be sure to visit Sandee from Comedy Plus (vote for her in Blogging for Fame), Bee from Muffin53(vote for in Best Humor Blog) and Ed from The Pisstakers make sure you stop by for his Sunday special.

A thank you to Miriam from Ancestories for awarding me the Thinking Blog Award.

Random Magus and Jennifer from Goodness Graciousness for both interesting comments on my blog and good reading topics on both their blogs.

Congratulations to Pearl from Interesting Observations for how well she is doing in Blogging for Fame and if you get a chance drop in and vote for her blog.

Check out Digital Nomads Blog as he has a good series on personal privacy.

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Hidden Meanings

We have all pet phrases that we use to communicate to others. He was higher than a kite. They could sell refrigerators to Eskimos. They were half a brick shy of a load. We are speaking from our experiences growing up and our customs.

We use them without thinking and expect others to know what our words mean. Sometimes we are fortunate to see that the other person by a puzzled look doesn't understand and explain what we mean.

Sometimes all we get is silence on their part and no indication they didn't understand. This can occur if they are strangers to us or perhaps in a business setting with people of a different cultural backgrounds or certainly between generations.

When we are communicating we need to ensure that our words convey the correct meaning to our audience.

Do you take this in to account when writing and communicating on the Internet?

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Winning At All Costs

There we are angry, red-faced and determined to have our way. Nothing will budge us. How many arguments have we had where it was our way or the highway? How many times did we end up exasperated and saying things that ending up doing major damage to our relationships?

It stems from the same cause that is reflected in all kinds of wars and skirmishes. A lack of alternatives. An inability to compromise.

What is compromise but looking for a win-win solution for all parties involved. It takes us looking at the situation from another's perspective. Not to diminish our own needs in the situation but to be able to understand the needs of the other people involved.

When we draw a line in the sand and declare the only solution to be whatever we state then we force the other person into doing the same. Then naturally our emotions get involved and it takes off from there. We are treating the issue as a life and death situation.

When we get in these types of situations can we step back and choose a different solution or has it already gone to far for us to change our stance and seek a compromise.

What do you think?

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Make Room to Grow

Doing spring cleaning, setting up for garage sales and packing for moving are chores few people like doing. This is when we finally brave that "space". You know. The space where we have stored things.

We go to the attic, basement, garage or spare room to see what we have and often we will recognize dust covered boxes from 2 moves ago. Never opened. 

Some people will say to themselves that we may need it even if we have not looked at in 5 years or we needed it once and maybe we will need it again. There it stays gathering dust and cobwebs.

Sometimes we get rid of them and make room for new things.

How do we make sure that we have room to grow in our lives?

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