There is a major confusion dominating a lot of people in Egypt about the consequences of the revolution so far.
Some people are mentally and emotionally so challenged and shocked from the disturbing news everyday which exceeded their capacity to assess and comprehend the situation.
Some of them started to wonder about the value of what's going on and if that what they really wanted.
I consider that all that expected and predicted mental and emotional shock which could happen to many persons if they lost the concentration on the long term objectives.
WE shouldn't let all the short term consequences to affect our morale and believing in the revolution.
We should continue the road to the end to gain the fruits and to reward the painful sacrifices of hundreds of martyrs.
I met some people who are questioning things which were supposed to be a common sense and written on the wall conclusions like the sins of Mubarak and if he really deserves what happened or no and worthy of the martyrs and even if the people are ready for the self-ruling and the democracy.
We must focus on the long term objectives.
We must continue in the painful but rewarding road to the end to gain eventually the fruits.
Fruits which were irrigated with our blood and tears.
Tuesday 6 September 2011
Friday 2 September 2011
Kuwait and Indonesia and the common sin
I received my assignment in Kuwait after three wonderful years in Indonesia. The first notice I've observed was the shear amount of SUV's for a small country.
The justification was stated simply everywhere that they need powerful car A/C's so that's why they have SUV's and of course the very cheap gas.
Gas here is cheaper than water!!
What a justification for consuming a finite resources.
In spite of the so many differences between Kuwait and Indonesia, they certainly share this sin, the wasting of their hydrocarbon resources.
The justification was stated simply everywhere that they need powerful car A/C's so that's why they have SUV's and of course the very cheap gas.
Gas here is cheaper than water!!
What a justification for consuming a finite resources.
In spite of the so many differences between Kuwait and Indonesia, they certainly share this sin, the wasting of their hydrocarbon resources.
Timeboxing
I'm using the "timeboxing" method to manage my time since two months now. The impact on my productivity was good and it is improving by the time.
I was always suffering from the distractions coming from the surrounding workplace which was giving me a negative feeling of the passing non-productive time.
The timeboxing has managed to control that.
What is timeboxing?
It is simply a method to assign time for each single tasks and to focus only on the task in hand till you finish it and block any other distractions. Do one task per time.
Secondly you need to record the time of each task.
Since the majority of my work is front of my Computer, I used Excel for the timeboxing. I used (NOW) function in two adjacent for each task. When I start the task I copy the value of (NOW) to set the start time and leave the other. The difference between both will measure the consumed duration. When I finish I paste the value of the finish time and this gives me the duration of this task and the start and finish time.
Sometimes I set a planned time for the task to compare between it and the actual consumed time.
This has improved my focus on the task in hand and improved my productivity and most importantly the quality of what I'm doing.
The another value was the precise logging of my tasks along the business day.
The sense and awareness of time is fully awaken as well.
It was near to perfect way to control the time and block the distractions and it has given me the sense of achievement.
What I'm doing now in the Excel spreadsheet, is writing a note of what could be done to speed up the productivity of the process in the next time. Next time I refer to this note to shorten the consumed time in the same process.
For instance, I found that thinking during the morning commuting about my business emails is saving a lot of time.
I emphasized and stressed the practice of this way to shorten the time of my business emails writing. And son on for the other tasks by getting some ideas after doing them to improve the quality and reduce the consumed time.
I found also based on the observation of my timeboxing that the thinking beforehand about my business day and the required decisions and actions should be taken is reducing significantly the hesitation and the further discussions and reducing my spontaneous actions and decisions to more planned and well calculated.
I was always suffering from the distractions coming from the surrounding workplace which was giving me a negative feeling of the passing non-productive time.
The timeboxing has managed to control that.
What is timeboxing?
It is simply a method to assign time for each single tasks and to focus only on the task in hand till you finish it and block any other distractions. Do one task per time.
Secondly you need to record the time of each task.
Since the majority of my work is front of my Computer, I used Excel for the timeboxing. I used (NOW) function in two adjacent for each task. When I start the task I copy the value of (NOW) to set the start time and leave the other. The difference between both will measure the consumed duration. When I finish I paste the value of the finish time and this gives me the duration of this task and the start and finish time.
Sometimes I set a planned time for the task to compare between it and the actual consumed time.
This has improved my focus on the task in hand and improved my productivity and most importantly the quality of what I'm doing.
The another value was the precise logging of my tasks along the business day.
The sense and awareness of time is fully awaken as well.
It was near to perfect way to control the time and block the distractions and it has given me the sense of achievement.
What I'm doing now in the Excel spreadsheet, is writing a note of what could be done to speed up the productivity of the process in the next time. Next time I refer to this note to shorten the consumed time in the same process.
For instance, I found that thinking during the morning commuting about my business emails is saving a lot of time.
I emphasized and stressed the practice of this way to shorten the time of my business emails writing. And son on for the other tasks by getting some ideas after doing them to improve the quality and reduce the consumed time.
I found also based on the observation of my timeboxing that the thinking beforehand about my business day and the required decisions and actions should be taken is reducing significantly the hesitation and the further discussions and reducing my spontaneous actions and decisions to more planned and well calculated.
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