Re-inventing blog and myself

Journaling is supposed to be a very therapeutic tool and blogging is journaling. So, I'm re-inventing this blog for my life lessons and growth purposes, to be therapeutic. Originally, I was using this blog as a business tool because I believe that a successful business in this day and age needs to have a strong online presence. Blogging, Tweeting, Facebooking, emailing, internet marketing is more powerful than any god. Any business that doesn't do these things is nuts.

Perhaps I'll mention this to my boss. I don't want the company I work for to go out of business. Recently, I read a book that changed my life and adjusted my attitude towards my work and my company. No job will ever be perfect. I genuinely LIKE what I do. I am a graphic designer in a printshop. The book I read was called "The Happiness Project" by Gretchen Rubin. The career-life-changing line I read was:

"Too much concern about whether I was getting praise or blame, spoiled my pleasure in my work and, what's more, probably weakened my work."

To me, this was life-changing because I do really like what I DO, but my bad-attitude towards office politics ruined it so much that I hated, dreaded going into work each day. ISN'T THAT HORRIBLE?? So now I smile and try to be cheerful and helpful and courteous, and all the good things that make a good employee.

In this book it also said happy people are more successful. There was a lot of great things in this book.

Anyhoo ... from now on this blog will be for my personal growth as a human bean - a life long process, I know.

Things I'm working on:
Speaking up
Not taking things so personal
Cutting people slack
Asking questions
Learning new things
Not shying away from the unknown.

Oh, and StumbleUpon.com is one of the greatest inventions ever. This is what I found yesterday: