Category Archives: Work

Dec 17 2 comments
E. W. Howe, weight, Work

>A Busy Person Never Knows

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Day #5 of Work Week at The Napkin Dad Daily
I weigh myself.  Not every day, but most days.  But I wouldn’t as much if I were busier (I wouldn’t as much if I didn’t have a scale in my bathroom as well).  

But here is a question: Do you think the aid workers in Haiti weigh themselves very often?  
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Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily

Quote by E. W. Howe, 1853-1937, American novelist and editor

Dec 16 0 comments
Anonymous, mind, thought, Work

>You Can't Plough A Field

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Day #4 of Work Week at The Napkin Dad Daily
It’s easy to mistake thinking about doing something with doing it.  It takes up a lot of mind power,  mind time and mind energy to think through something. The mind work make you feel as if you have already done it, so it can be hard to get up the enthusiasm to actually go and do that thing.

But taking action is the only way to make your thoughts real so best go do it!
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Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily

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Dec 15 0 comments
employment, Theodore Roosevelt, Work

>Whenever You Are Asked If You Can Do A Job

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Day #3 of Work Week at The Napkin Dad Daily
Long ago I had a job where I used certain development software very intensely.  My boss came to me and someone senior to me and asked if either of us wanted to work with a new software program neither of us were familiar with.  The person senior to me had first pick. He said no.  I jumped at the chance and said yes. But my boss wasn’t sure.  She asked ‘Can you do the job?’  I said yes and immediately started staying late after work to learn the program.  I succeeded in mastering it, the other guy soon quit under pressure because his work was suffering and his skills were laking.  I became the boss a year later. He went back to Texas and worked in construction.

If each challenge you face in work (and in life) is met first with a ‘I don’t know how to do that’ response, then guess what?  You won’t be given the chance to learn how to do it. Whether it’s taking a class for your own enjoyment or something at your place of work,  make your first response be ‘Yes, I can’ then work like hell learning how. 
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Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily

Quote by Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, 26th President of the United States

Dec 14 2 comments
appreciation, Oscar Wilde, Work

The Best Way To Appreciate Your Job

 

I decided it is ‘Work Week’, so today is day #2 of it!
I don’t just mean your ‘work’ job. I mean the jobs in your life.  Want to appreciate your job as a mother?  Imagine your children gone.  Want to appreciate your job as a communicator? Imagine all the communication methods you use gone.  Want to appreciate your job as a friend? Imagine you don’t have any.

What jobs do you have in life that you overlook?

Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily

Quote by Oscar Wilde, the best source of pithy quotes in the universe!

Dec 13 2 comments
money, Thomas Edison, Work

>An Idea Is Something That Won't Work

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Day #1 of my week long series on either ideas or work, not sure which yet. You will just have to come back tomorrow to see!
No matter how bizarre the mechanics, how advanced the electronics, how many people behind you are helping to turn the gears or switch the switches – if you don’t do your work your idea will not work either.

Preached to myself this 13th day of December, 2010.
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Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily

Quote by Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931, American inventor

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