Sometimes what we need in life is not forgiveness, but surrender.
We focus on fighting for forgiveness on past wrongs and ignore surrendering to present love.
Day: June 28, 2020
Cue 79 – The Career Effects Of Graduating In A Recession
The Career Effects Of Graduating In A Recession
“There are three central findings in this study. First, luck matters, because graduating in a recession leads to large initial earnings losses. These losses, which amount to about 9 percent of annual earnings in the initial stage, eventually recede, but slowly — halving within five years but not disappearing until about ten years after graduation. Second, initial random shocks affect the entire career. Graduating in a recession leads workers to start at smaller and lower paying firms, and they catch-up by switching jobs more frequently than those who graduate in better times. Third, some workers are more affected by luck than others. In particular, earnings losses from temporarily high unemployment rates are minimal for workers with two or more years of work experience and are greatest for labor market entrants. Among graduates, those with the lowest predicted earnings suffer significantly larger and much more persistent earnings losses than those at the top.”
Cue 78 – Slim by Design
“Three words summarize these results: First foods most. What ends up on a buffet diner’s plate is dramatically determined by the presentation order of food. Rearranging food order from healthiest to least healthy can nudge unknowing or even resistant diners toward a healthier meal, helping make them slim by design.” – Brian Wansink and Andrew S. Hanks
What are you creating?
All you see was created. You do not even have to be religious or believe in a god to understand this.
Nothing is as it was 1,000 years ago. And if you add another comma (1,000,000 years ago), it would almost seem like we are living on a new planet.
What are you creating?
Knowingly or unknowingly, we create something new in the world. Something that someone else sees as their reality.
Creation does not have to be material, even the immaterial is created.
When I talk to people, it is not hard to see what part of creation they see and how what they see is molding what they are creating.
To create, some takeaway parts that are already there, some build parts that never existed, some fashion parts that already exist into new patterns, some add new light on previously unseen parts. There are many alternatives in creation, we underestimate our own creation when we compare to how or what others are creating.
Les Brown once said “The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry out their dream.”
I agree and I disagree.
I agree that people could have given more, if they were bolder with their dreams. I agree that there is much that has been lost in the people that have departed from us. I agree that our story is always incomplete, because there are too many blank spaces from people that chose not to share.
I disagree because the richest place is the womb, not the tomb. I disagree because death does not have the final word, as a lot is still being learnt from and given by graveyards. I disagree because what is dismissed by one is always available to all, and what was buried in one, will be birthed in another.
All we see was created. If you are currently reading this, I am creating.
– Osasu Oviawe
A hack
2 Kings 4:8-11, 14-17
One day Eli’sha went on to Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to eat some food. So whenever he passed that way, he would turn in there to eat food. And she said to her husband, “Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, who is continually passing our way. Let us make a small roof chamber with walls, and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp, so that whenever he comes to us, he can go in there.” One day he came there, and he turned into the chamber and rested there. And he said, “What then is to be done for her?” Geha’zi answered, “Well, she has no son, and her husband is old.” He said, “Call her.” And when he had called her, she stood in the doorway. And he said, “At this season, when the time comes round, you shall embrace a son.” And she said, “No, my lord, O man of God; do not lie to your maidservant.” But, as Elisha had said, at about that time the following year she gave birth to a son.
Homily:
“He who receives a prophet because he is a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward, and he who receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward. And whoever gives to one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.” – Matthew 10:41-42
“Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.” – Hebrews 13:2
People are our network to the world and the pass to the gifts therein.
Everybody you know started off as a stranger, even family.
Kindness to strangers is a hack for unlocking unknown treasures.