Things I would like to tell my children

This will have blogs about things I have learned that took me a life time to grasp the meaning of.

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

You want to be a manager and do not know how?

When I was young like you, I wanted so much to be a manager of my department (the place I worked). But sometimes I wonder to myself, how will I do it? Even when I became one, I did not really do as well. Later on I became an Internal Auditor and that is when I realized it was easy to manage anything. You can even become a CEO and manage a whole company easily.

The key is realizing that every organization has an inherent purpose for being there. Let us start at being a CEO of a company. The company was created to make money for the stockholders so that will be your main objective or job - to make money. Of course, you will learn that there are limitations to what you can do. You must make money but must follow the laws of the land; and to consistently make money over time, you will need to hire good people, make them happy to retain them, etc. But the job is still to make money.

Let us say you become a manager of the Accounts Payable Department. Logically your objective is to pay your vendors on time and effective - or correctly, in accordance to company policies. You have to be good to employees, attract the right people and retain them.

This should start you now. It is really simple. Just do it and good luck.

My body, my vehicle; My mind, my being.

I am now 62 years old and as I age I have noticed that the mind or my conciousness has separated from my body. What I mean is my mind is still fresh while I noticed my body is deteriorating. This has lead me to believe that my body is just like a car, a vehicle for my consciousness or my being. I have to take good care of, maintain it nicely so it will last me a long time. So my children, learn from what I want to say.

Take good care of your body while you are young. Treat it like your car. Maintain it nicely. Never, never wait for something to get broken and then try to fix it. Your body cannot take that. But this is the physical side.

What I have realized is my being is really my consciousness. What I mean is even if my body becomes a vegetable - and most people will request for the suffering to be ended - I do not believe that. I believe my consciousness will still like to be with you as long as I can be. My mind can travel in time and think about the wonderful times we all have together. My mind can go places too; and I can play golf, too. So my children, keep me alive even if the body is a vegetable, I will be alive inside for you. But try hard to to come up with ideas for me to communicate with you. Even though I cannot move, maybe my eyes can, and maybe I can control a computer with it. Wow, if I can control a computer, I can really travel!