Living a Slowly Life – Slow Down and Do Less, Slowly

We live today in the most hectic and feverish world. For the most of us each day seems to be a race; a daily race or “rat race”, an exhausting daily routine that leaves you no time for rest and relaxation. What is alarming is that the speed of this race increase from day to day, we become a sort of “speedaholics”. And as if this wouldn’t be enough we borrowed from the PC world the concept of multitasking (running two or more tasks at the same time) and try to implement it in our daily life. We want to do more because, in this era of consumerism, almost all of us are conditioned to want/have more. Rarely we take into account to be more, to think and feel better rather than do and have.

Who are you? What your pig drawing, browser type, fav. drinks, etc. reveal about you!

 

1. Draw a Pig – tells a whole lot about yourself based on your drawing of a pig. May sound ridiculous but seems to work extremely well. Currently counts over 1.3 mil drawn pigs, with several hundreds of pigs being added hourly. Check out some of the recently added pigs

Top 10 Ways to Be Happy at Work

Working at Google sounds very cool. Google as a motivating employer: free food, engineers who are enabled to spend 20 percent of their time on their own projects, and a work environment that fosters play and creative thinking. At Google, Genentech and other Fortune magazine top 100 companies, employers provide best workplaces.At the same time, perks that enable employees to spend all of their time at work exploit people and destroy work – life balance. So, even the best employer may not be best for everyone. These are the factors that will help you find happiness at work.