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May142010Off

Positioning Oneself

Hard times usually occur to us for different reasons and we find ourselves in such situations where we feel badly lost. In this case, it is easy to take a shortcut and keep on complaining that starts with “yelling” and may escalates to reach “screaming” and may ends extremely with an ugly “nervous break-down”, but is it the only way to react?

My answer is simply “No.”

I however emphasize that this NO does not mean prohibiting the normal feeling of sadness for whatever happened as those feelings, for me, are simply the healthy signs which indicate that we are humans who feel. Nevertheless, my main point in this post is how to work for overcoming whatever we passed through and this, in other simple words, means taking another alternative so in this pot I am trying to place self improvement tips on how to achieve this.

Positioning Oneself: Life Alignment

Positioning Oneself: Life Alignment

Positioning and Life Alignment

Since direct routes are easier to walk-through therefore I shall place a practical example.

In the previous blog entry, I told you that I am just recovering and informed you with brief updates about myself while joking – in point 6 – that I have not missed any thing. In fact, it seems I missed out many things in the past long period both off-line (in real life) and on-line (in virtual world) respectively.

My point is that reacting negatively – in the way explained at the 1st paragraph up – will not help in solving any thing; as no body shall benefit from this negative reaction either me or people around. Therefore the rational way is reacting positively to overcome what happened and rank better in the future.

Indeed, I am aware that for whatever happened we are sad, felt lost, maybe tears appears in your eyes or even depressed but it is time to change these normal feelings into a fuel that makes you keep moving. Hence in this blog entry, I am trying to place self improvement tips on positioning oneself by going through life alignment that requires a “To-Do List” after you analyze, plan, and implement to repositioning oneself in any situation.

Repositioning Process

Straightforward to the point, hard times are usually non-planned situations in your life that need your positive reaction not the negative one. This is other alternative that I meant in the 2nd paragraph up which can be reached by simply repositioning yourself to align with the new situation according to the following procedure:

  1. Identifying what you have lost;
  2. Planning how to restore this;
  3. Implementing an action plan.

For that matter and apart from theoretical talk, it is helpful and essential to work on something similar to constructing a to-do list where one traces what he (and she) wants to achieve for positioning oneself and aligning to different situations in your life. In my case, a mini-sample for this list can be something like that:-

  1. Item one: Work (offline real life)
    1. receiving executive summaries from colleagues;
    2. assigning priorities for urgent versus far client requests.
  2. Item two: Family and friends (offline real life)
    1. checking status to receive updates;
    2. fulfilling family stuff that have been missed.
  3. Item three: Internet (online virtual life)
    1. updating myself with the latest SEO trends;
    2. checking and replying the e-mails in my inbox;
    3. upgrading software and plug-in to latest version;

etc.

You can write down your plans either electronically or manually, whatever the tool and flavor that you find yourself in. The goal from this is to have a better overview that helps you to adjust and reposition yourself to know exactly where are you know, and where you want to go instead of being in the middle of nowhere. In other simply words, this help you to while going through the decision making process as it’s my life to live.

In a nutshell, I passed by different hard times in both the far and near past, thus not only I know what I am talking about, but also sharing you with my way for achieving such alternative. Furthermore, life goes on and time pass without waiting for anybody, so instead of spending it only in a negative way, it is wiser to spend it positively in order to go for your own flying without wings process because at the end of the day life is nothing but what you decide plus the help from the Almighty Allah (swt) – God – the Creator of this endless universe!

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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. — Paulo Coelho

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May102010Off

Just Recovering

’5 Months’ makes me wonder how the days run so quickly since I posted over my blog whom is also wondering where the heck I have been hiding. Well, as the title of the post mentions, I am just slowly recovering from my illness in the past period which still requires another few months till I can restore everything back again, hopefully (inshallah).

Just Recovering

Just Recovering

Thoughts and Ramblings
Firstly, I start by saying “Alhamdulillah (thanking Allah – GOD -in English)” for everything either good or bad. For the Muslim readers of you, I am recalling an earlier post about Muslims on Hard Times where elaborations on how to endure them till they pass.

Secondly, let me summarize what in my mind them into the following points:-

  • Point 1: I want to thank all the people who asked about me either online or offline. Consequently, I ought to place my apology for not being able to communicate well with all of you but you now know why;
  • Point 2: I am not that type of yelling people so simply I pause at how any human being has to work hard for restoring back his (and her) normal activity after illness. It is something that requires to put a lot of effort so just let us go step by step;
  • Point 3: I do not believe in giving up in anything and so do any human being because life deserves to live it with its ups and downs. If you pause a little you shall discover that everything passes as time goes on as much as the person has the intention to restore things back, or in simple words: hope;
  • Point 4: A Personal Wish is to live and see the day where the doctors’ prescription pad is as sharp as their bills. Amen!;
  • Point 5: As for the past point, I am just wondering whether it is Science Fiction;
  • Point 6: I do not think I missed a lot of things in terms of what is happening in the world around; as scanning the news headlines tells me proudly that it is as insane as I left it few months ago and the Psycho Circus of Human Nature is still ongoing which means the year 2010 seems to be as 2009;
  • Point 7: Just recovering does not necessarily mean to forget about shining like gold if you recall as a reader for my blog.

These seven points are my observations for the aftermath of this long period; however I have a note for my Arabic Egyptian readers of your:

» سبع طبقات – باك – وأستك [ :P ]

Thirdly and finally, I missed blogging, replying my e-mails, following up with my stuff online in the virtual world and many things offline in the real world which requires spending a lot of effort to restore back. Therefore, as I am just recovering till restoring my and be fully able do my activities in the near future (inshallah), let me remind myself with this unknown quote: hurry up and get the heck out of there!

Related Quotes and Sayings

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. — Orison Swett Marden

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Dec312009Off

Laila in La-La Land

Today I am saying bye-bye 2009; a year where good things and bad ones took place on various levels starting with the personal, passing by the national and ending with the global level. Generally speaking, among the few good things is the “Kolena Laila” event (3rd year) that I told you about few weeks ago and this is my blog entry at the end of the year and the end of the event too; so whether you are a regular reader or a new one I am welcoming you to my blog!

Laila in La-La Land: Kolena Laila 2009

Laila in La-La Land: Kolena Laila 2009

Laila: Cherchez La Femme

I used to mention over here how I am not happy with the status of women in our area due to the image people have about women, so my simple question is what lead us to this situation? Let us scratch the surface to reach for answers, hopefully!

Aside from generalizing which I do not like, I believe there is an atmosphere that support the attitude of extreme highlighting on the female parts of woman in the minds of people that is prevailing in our society.

This attitude is translated – consciously and unconsciously – into a behavior that focus on the body-related topics and thus you find it controlling various discourses regardless the orientation (left – middle – right) and the final status is that women had been categorized according to this into the two contradicting labels: “baby dolls versus root of all evil” for men which is another product for the extremely low ranked “hot or not” sexism categorization.

The implementation of this disgusting mental and physical segregation process is notable in the efforts that are being waisted – not spent – on quarreling about topics like:

  • how women should be killed for honor crimes;
  • what women should or should not wear;
  • young girls and the FGM (not only FC) crime in Africa/Middle East;
  • … the list seems an endless one!

I cannot understand this in terms of any rational way of thinking, so if we put our minds aside and go for irrationality , we shall simply discover the attitude of having women as a property of men in their minds and hence their presence as human being was reduced just as a female where as their mind is ignored after such minimizing process and women for that matter became socially oppressed by people regardless their orientation.

On the other hand, I do respect everybody’s personal belief; however in a country like Egypt where Islam is the religion of the majority, I am placing my critique about how sometimes – or many – people relate their actions to Islam and hence you find the both anti and pro discussions regarding the status of women and this lead to another stereotyped image that existed due to their actions not what Islam call for. This point is clear for people who try to understand Islam in a better way, not for those who believe in what others tell them regardless their orientation and whether they are Muslims or Non-Muslims.

You know what? Almighty Allah (swt) – GOD – had created us that we may know each other generally and in case of men and women specially. Consequently, I neither believe in generalizing nor extremism to any side and this means that the keystone to solve this problem is to understand our differences and coexist with them in a better way than we currently witness since many decades!

In a nutshell, my elaborations may explain the reasons behind why Laila went to La-La Land because some mentalities choose ignoring our human intellect – like modesty of the mind for example – while dealing women issues in our societies; hence let me clearly mention that women are human beings not only females, so if this fact seems hard for many people to understand since many decades, what seems harder for me is that we are still discussing this issue in the 21st century!

Related Quotes and Sayings

A single moment of understanding can flood a whole life with meaning. — Unknown Author

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