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Corporate Quandry

I remember the excitement I felt, out of high school and out of college, getting a ‘job’ and making ‘real’ money. remember that feeling?

I felt accomplished, capable and proud. I was earning a living and doing my ‘part’. I felt somehow like a piece of a whole. I was ‘helping’ to achieve company goals and objectives; I was contributing.

Now, it’s today. It is some several years later. I’ve done a few different things, worked in a few different places with different people. I’m becoming more aware of the human dynamic and how it dances with the corporate culture.

While this short little thought could never paint the whole picture or fill the whole pitcher, it is a part I’d like to explore.

There is that part of me that loves and and celebrates the job that I have. I feel whole, and as though I’m contributing and it’s very satisfying. Along with all that juicy fulfillment, there is also a part of me that feels ’sold out’ by the corporate culture.

There seems to be a ‘tell me the story I want to hear’-type of culture that still has trouble finding a place to settle within my being. I feel I offer integrity to my work and to the contributions I give to the company that employs me.

However, those moments when I am asked by the ‘politically-correct’ or ‘career-enhancing’ culture to paint a picture that is defined as a ’story that must be told this way’ instead of ‘how it really is’, frankly, I struggle.

I’m not trying to solve this problem, but rather put a voice to the dichotomy that dances around in my spirit from time to time. I suppose one could get into trouble very quickly if a black and white picture required drawing at this point. I’m sate with allowing this picture to have shades and colors right now, but I do still wonder about it.

Virtual rooms

And so it is that the stress of all my goings on, specifically at work, got the better of me. Not a horrible thing in and of itself, but an occurrence nonetheless.

What is it about what feels like mass chaos that makes our insides turn inside out? read more…

To write about a thing…

And so, there appeared a moment to write about a thing, to make a writing real.

It is delicious that as alive human beings there are more opportunities than there are hours in a lifetime to accomplish them. How amazingly motivational that is. read more…

On night dreams and day dreams…

I want to invite my delicious creativity, my writing, to manifest clarity in my resting, my night sleep, and my day sleep. When I have ‘puzzles’ in my life, I want to use that time to come up with motivating solutions.

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What if…

…I went to a cafe to send hours to write? It feels vulnerable. What would people think? I’ve been there for hours and I haven’t ordered very much. Look at her just into her writing. She’s lost in the world of words that are spilling from her head onto paper.

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The dawn…the setting…

I am always inspired by the dawn of a new day and the coming to rest of a day that has been spent.

Sunrises and sunsets are deeply fulfilling for me.

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Play Thoughts

Think of a child playing in a sand box or on a beach. Watch carefully.

At first the child may roam about freely or aimlessly. At any given moment, a focus begins to unfold. Perhaps this child finds a shell. The child picks up the shell and begins to look at it.

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Shhhhhh -

I’m being quiet right now.

Check back in a couple of weeks, I’ll have some new and interesting things to share.

In the mean time - enjoy the season you’re in…

A neat little gift

I’m participating in a neat little online course called SARK’s Awesome Anytime Adventure. Obviously, it’s a course offered by SARK (you can find out more at planetsark.com).  Anyway - I was doing some exploring with freedom, ‘that vacation feeling’, and succulence. I had an interesting realization I wanted to share. read more…

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