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Listening to: Daughters (from Where The Light Is) – John Mayer
Currently Reading: The Purpose Driven Life (Rick Warren) & Of Love and Shadows (Isabel Allende)

I wasn’t going to blog this but I figured might as well while it’s fresh in my mind.
Sometimes things can get really shitty and you feel your walls caving down around you, and it’s like nobody can get through.
But it really makes a difference when you can tell someone something that means a whole deal to you and watch them connect with you.
When you know that it doesn’t matter who you are or what you’ve done as long as you’ve been there.

Since everybody left school and went to work or graduate school, I finally understand what it means when people used to tell me, “I wish I could go back to school again” because all I wanted to do then was just to be done with exams.
So now I know.

It’s a dog-eat-dog world and here are a few things I’ve learnt :

1. Keep your nose clean and do your work with honesty and thoroughness. Don’t do anything that will make it impossible for you to look in the mirror in the morning.

2. Be yourself and don’t get lost in the crowd, work wisely with your teammates, not against them.

3. There’s always going to be one person (at the very least) who will make it seem like their life’s motto is to ruin yours. Listen up, that’s life. Repeat Rule 1 and be prudent but most of all maintain your respect and dignity. Nobody has the right to walk over you unless you let them, so don’t.

4. Leave your work when you get home, at the end of the day, work is where you earn a living – not life itself. Exercise regularly and take care of your health; fitness of both mind and body is imperative and goes a long long way.

5. Take a break when you need it. And I cannot stress this enough. You should be Numero Uno.

6. Do not engage in office gossip, you never know who might be listening.

7. Know who your friends are and keep in touch with them, knowing that they are in the same boat as you, can do wonders for your self-esteem Your friends are the ones who hold your hair back while you’re making a connection with the toilet bowl, not the ones who knife you in the back when you’re not looking. Maintain your priorities and keep perspective.

8. Find passion in your work, if you wake up thinking, oh shit – it’s another day, something’s going wrong.

9. Pray so that you will always be led to make the right decisions, when push comes to shove, values trumps salary.

10.Take it one day at a time. Keep the faith. Stay strong. And reach out when you need help or even a shoulder. At the end of the day we are here to fulfill God’s purpose in our lives, not our own.

All the best to all my fellow peddlers.
Here’s to riding this through together.