humanity
The real lives of businessmen, professionals, the everyday man, stay at home parent, healthy lifestyle influencers, and general feel good human stories.
A Box, A Horse, A Decision
The frustration level at the office was off the charts with missed deadlines and individuals in roles who needed so much hand holding, no work moved forward. Why did it take so long? Well, the new CEO was hiring birthday, bar mitzvah, and BBQ friends on her leadership team and they had no business in an executive position, so projects were taking five times longer to complete as they learned the business. In unison, all of the projects were over budget and that added pressure to the sales teams to produce lost revenue.
By Tina Travierso4 years ago in Journal
Mental Health Matters
For some, the idea of calling out of work can be an incredibly stressful thing. While employees exist who don’t think twice about taking a day off, there are countless others who work themselves into a frenzy at the prospect of all that comes with calling out of work. The prevalence of burnout in the workplace has risen to a point where it has become a national, perhaps even global, conversation. Employees are working like never before as the long lists of demands and expectations seem to be continually growing. People call out of work for a variety of reasons: vacations, sickness, appointments, emergencies, but the one that seems to have the most stigma is the idea of taking a mental health day. Why? Why are we taught to ignore the warning signs of our health in regards to our mental state?
By Kurt Mason4 years ago in Journal
Assaulting Cults of "Innovation": How I Outsmarted Stephen Hawking, Disrupted Braden Kelley and Put Elon Musk in Check!
I’m writing this because innovation, creativity, whatever have you, is such a continuous mystery and for no good reason other than there are so many ways of doing it, that you have all of these people being used to misrepresent it, act like they know the first thing about it when they don't, and are seen as having mastered it when all they've mastered is bation. My name is Marshall Barnes and my unofficial nickname is "the McMoe" because I'm the Most Creative Man On Earth. Got it? Good, 'cause I'm giving it to you, no holds bared, as I'm about to embark on a tour of seminars to teach people how to change the landscape that we've all been facing for far too long. So long in fact that I can't stand it anymore. Right now, however, I'll begin at the top, from a slightly different field, although curiously, a single thread runs through it all - the possibility of time travel to the past. So what better way to begin than a man known for the perception of possessing awe inspiring insights and genius - the late Stephen W. Hawking.
By Marshall Barnes4 years ago in Journal
Roar
Shortly before Momma died, I began to take stock of where my life was and how things could turn out for me should the worst-case scenario occur. I stood at the tail-end of a two-year battle with depression, leisurely reconfiguring my life and easing back into a world that had gone on without me.
By Jonathan Apollo4 years ago in Journal
How Being a Caregiver Changed My Life
When I was growing up, I wanted to be famous. Super cliche, I know. I wanted to sing and act, win awards, and have tons of money. I think a lot of kids think that way at some point. As I hit my teenage years, I started to develop a likeness to helping people. I began volunteering and decided that instead of being famous, I wanted to help people. As I got closer to adulthood and closer to graduating high school, I felt that going to nursing school would be the next move. Well, that didn't happen. I ended up making not so good choices and was not a nice person. I had a lot of anger. Then I focused on bettering myself, it helped, but it made me have to think about what other ways I could help people that didn't require a nursing degree. I just knew I wanted to do something in healthcare.
By Virginia Shefcyk4 years ago in Journal
It's The Letting Go
There's so much about parenting that no one tells you far beyond shitting on the birthing table, bleeding out of your lady bits for weeks on end, stiches in said lady bits, and loss of bladder control. All the above sucks, albeit worth it, but I’m talking about something else entirely.
By Melissa Godshall4 years ago in Journal
Cosmic Balances In Myth
The King Arthur myths and legends are a prime example of the heroic journey. His call to adventure is some myths that start when he pulls Excalibur from a stone. It proves to be his call to adventure because he is the only one who can do it, the only one worthy of the sword because he is the son of Uther. He is the rightful king of England and only he can rule. His mentor and supernatural aid comes in the form of Merlin the druid, the Lady of the lake and his sword Excalibur. Merlin is often tied to magic and seen as a wise man in most stories and tellings with great power who educates Arthur sometimes by turning him into animals, in other tellings he is the one who created the sword Excalibur another item that in some sources seems magical or has magical properties, one being that only Arthur and can use the sword. And the Lady of the lake who in some cases also holds onto the sword for Arthur can give it to him so long as he is near some body of water, so long as he is close to a source of water he can summon the sword thanks to her help. Then you have his knights such as Percival, Lancelot, and Gawain to name a few. They are his allies in his journey, each providing some form of help to him and his cause, whether it is Percival and his strength or Gawain with his humanity. They help him along his journey and fight for him and his kingdom. Now during the time in which this story would have been originally told in an oral tradition it was during the Saxon migration from Germania to the British Isles and perhaps during the Viking age in which England was divided and didnt have a single king. This myth of a great warrior king who ruled over all England would have been seen as a rallying call, a way to unite the people against a single threat. But the moral and philosophical purpose of this myth is that all of England can be united under one banner no matter what boundaries exist and when times are at their darkest a ray of light shines through.
By Thomas Tome4 years ago in Journal
The Shackles of The Genocide Convention
Following the events of World War II the countries of the world came together and agreed on a legal document. A legal document that would ensure the prevention and punishment of genocide. The Genocide Convention. Sadly due to state sovereignty, the document is useless. Since its creation, it has not once been employed due to different interpretations and definitions of the Genocide Conventions by the international court on how to prosecute the crime and dictate punishment, as well as the qualifications of a genocide and who is guilty of the crime.
By Thomas Tome4 years ago in Journal
