Day 49 of 100 Days of 100 Ways To Rule Your World

BEFRIEND COWORKERS

Expand your internal network by making friends with your co-workers. However, don’t overdo it. It may be easy to get started; it is even easier to get carried away. While it is not a problem to socialize with your co-workers, it can become a problem when you become a supervisor. Show a little restraint now and you will thank yourself later.

Make friends now and they can become your strongest allies later. Show genuine and authentic friendship and you might just make someone a lifelong friend.

Give it a shot!

Thank you,
David Guerra
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Day 48 of 100 Days of 100 Ways To Rule Your World

HOME IS TO STAY AT HOME

There is something that can be said about the individual that can leave WORK at WORK when the whistle blows 5 o’clock and can also leave HOME at HOME when the whistle blows in the morning.

Imagine being able to turn off all your “at home” worries and solely focus on the job at hand?

Imagine being able to turn off all the day’s events and have a restful and peaceful evening at home with your family?

SOUND FAMILIAR?

It should because it’s what I wrote in the last way. Now let’s flip the last way on the B-side and look at it from the perspective of work.

When you were hired, you were hired to do a job for your employer who would in turn give you compensation for doing that job. A reality is that many of us bring our home into the workplace. We take calls from our kids, emails from friends, and so on.

So what do you do? You curtail your interactions. Notice I wrote “curtail” and not completely cut off your interactions. In a tight economy everyone must do more with less and that means that your employer is going to expect you to do more of your job and less socializing, less time spent off the job when you are supposed to be on the job.

This might sound harsh but understand in an economy that is taking no prisoners there is no room for slacking off or the perception of slacking off.

That’s why you must enlist the help of your friends and family to get them to support you in keeping the calls and distractions down to a minimum.

Emergencies are understandable and expected. That’s life but living in a constant state of Emergency is not understandable and definitely NOT expected nor tolerated by the employer. So do what you can now otherwise it may be too late.

Now, get back to work.

Thank you,
David Guerra
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Day 47 of 100 Days of 100 Ways To Rule Your World

WORK IS TO STAY AT WORK

There is something that can be said about the individual that can leave WORK at WORK when the whistle blows 5 o’clock and can also leave HOME at HOME when the whistle blows in the morning.

Imagine being able to turn off all of your at home worries and solely focus on the job at hand?

Imagine being able to turn off all the day’s events and have a restful and peaceful evening at home with your family?

Some say that because of this age that we live in. The ALWAYS ON, ALWAYS CONNECTED 24/7 world we cannot break the electronic chains that tie us to work in the evenings and by the same token those chains that tie us to family during the day. It is because of the stress of always being connected that it is essential to have a place where you can go to escape the workplace.

To minimize the stress make home a WORK FREE ZONE (WFZ). The WFZ is where you will not check your work email every half hour. You will not do work from work for the sake of doing the work. You will not answer a work phone call because the phone is ringing. Guess what? That’s why they invented voicemail and that’s why people play “phone tag” so let the call go to voicemail and get with them later.

In the meantime, enjoy the time with your family.

Thank you,
David Guerra
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