humanity
The real lives of businessmen, professionals, the everyday man, stay at home parent, healthy lifestyle influencers, and general feel good human stories.
Blue Jays
When I was a young girl, around the age of ten, my family owned an old, iron, birdcage. This large and beautiful cage sat in the corner of our patio, in the backyard. I cannot remember now whether it had no door at all or if we just always left it open. But, either way, the bottom of the cage was filled with a variety of seeds and nuts to attract wild birds and other little creatures to it, for them to eat at their leisure. We never closed them in. We only watched from a distance as they helped themselves to as much as they wanted.
By Brittany Ivy4 years ago in Journal
FREEDOM. The freedom to identify as me myself and I and not who society says I am
2019 was probably the rockiest year of my life with numerous ups and downs. After an abusive relationship, experiencing homelessness, and substance abuse somehow, I came into myself. I learned from every mistake, I adapted and overcame every obstacle gracefully, I learned what was truly important to me and what wasn’t. I found my independence and I learned skills and found a strength in myself I never knew I had, I grew as a person and a woman. I grew pride in myself and confidence in who I was. I became a better person. I gained respect for myself for remaining true to the values I have and never crossing limits just because things were rough. I grew so much pride in my character and my capabilities. I learned that just because I was making a few mistakes I was still the same caring, helpful, responsible honest person I’ve always been. I was living on the street I was a drug addict, and I was still so confident in the person and woman I was that no one’s opinion bothered me. No one’s comments or judgement was any of my business. In an environment like the one I was living in its easy to succumb to the ugly all around you. After being lied to, taken advantage of, physically and mentally abused, stolen from, amongst other things. No matter how hard it is keep the ugly, the resentment, the hatred the anger and any other negative energy out of your heart. If your good natured at heart remain good natured. Keep helping people, keep loving people, because if someone is taking advantage of you while you’re helping or giving to them from a genuine place in your heart then it’s not your problem. It’s their problem and karma will serve them accordingly. Nothing wrong can come from you doing anything from a good pace in your heart. When you know who you are, and you know your core values and you know your character no one can tell you otherwise and it is the best sense of freedom that you will ever experience. You gain a confidence in yourself and insecurities you had, and self-doubt disappear, I promise. If I die with nothing to show for it, I don’t care because I’ll know I was good to people and that’s the most important thing in the world to me!
By Stephanysays.blog4 years ago in Journal
The fake prison experiment
The formidable message of the prison experiment conducted by psychologist Philip Zimbardo in August 1971 is this: The power of the social context in which a human being finds himself at a given moment is often dominant over his ability to oppose it.
By Mindy Mindy4 years ago in Journal
Dear Journal
Dear Journal, This is my first entry. I have so much to talk about, so many to things to say. Where do I even start? I guess I will start with the stuff that is in the front of my brain first. So, there is this girl I have been seeing around. Well, it's a little more than that. I have talked to this girl and I have a superficial relationship with her mother. The girl is a year older than my oldest daughter. The mother is a year or so older than me. Mom has two other children. She has a younger daughter that is about 4 and a 7 month old infant son. On the outside, they appear normal. They have a house and a vehicle. The kids go to school. Mom doesn't work. She doesn't have any visible disabilities. She could be impaired mentally some how and maybe that prevents her from being able to work. I know for sure that the family receives government assistance. I know for sure because we had a conversation about it. I had mentioned having and using food stamps and she related by saying she gets stamps, cash assistance as well as subsidized housing. Shoot! I wish I could get subsidized housing lol.
By Latoya Giles 4 years ago in Journal
Dozens of psychologists sent a letter to Putin
Dozens of psychologists around the world have signed an open letter to President Putin explaining what is happening to him and why he must stop the war. It is not clear what was the motivation of psychologists, but it is hard for me to believe that naivety, because such an approach, if it has no other goal, shows this: boundless naivety. This is what psychologists say. And why their letter will have no effect.
By Mindy Mindy4 years ago in Journal
She Said I Had Porridge For Brains — Here Is How You Can Manage Extreme Anger
Yesterday I was attacked by someone who hurled insults at me in public. “You are a University graduate but your reasoning and intellect are non existent, you lack even the base cognition that aids a child in knowing how to take a shit,.. Then you call yourself an engineer? A phony maybe… All that wasted money, it could have just as well been drained down the toilet…”
By James Ssekamatte4 years ago in Journal
Companies Around the World Are Saying “Nyet” to Doing Business in Russia After the Invasion of Ukraine
“The answer to all your questions is money…” —- Don Ohlmeyer, as told to Tony Kornheiser Introduction All too often, as a strategic management professor and consultant, we talk in abstract terms about companies and their top management “doing the right thing” when it comes to really tough issues involving corporate ethics and social responsibility. In many classes across the business curriculum, the ethics chapter is put off to be the last one on the reading list. And if there’s a snow day, a professor sick day, or these days, maybe a COVID-19-related class cancellation, well, it’s okay if we never even get to talking about business ethics in class! Talking about ethics can make students - and yes even their professors - feel uncomfortable, as ethical issues are often intertwined with what are often controversial - and many times highly personal and highly charged societal, political, environmental, sexual, religious, etc. matters. Beyond the classroom and even the corporate training room however, we know that acting ethically is even harder, and oftentimes, making the ethical decision is not just hard - but it can also be very, very costly.
By David Wyld4 years ago in Journal
The Complete Guide to After Pediatric Heart Surgery and What You Need to Know
Pediatric heart surgery is a specialized treatment for those children who have congenital heart defects. Pediatric heart surgeries are done on very young children who have to undergo these surgeries because they are not able to live with their heart defects.
By Satish Kumar4 years ago in Journal
As Ukraine fights for its freedom, we must conquer our fear
Over the past weeks, as I put my three-year-old son to bed each night in the safety of our home, all I could think about were the parents in Ukraine who were now marking their children’s blood type with a sticker when sending them to school. This recent precaution has quickly become a routine for many Ukrainians, especially in eastern Ukraine, where the war with Russia was imminent, or so we kept hearing. Some of these children are even products of the war, the offspring of couples who met on the frontlines, most of them volunteers. Their parents returned home to raise these children from 2017 onwards, hoping for at least a semblance of normalcy during a lull in the midst of a war that has never come to an end.
By lisa maggie4 years ago in Journal
