Will try to update my blog more often!

I have the blogger app, what reason can I have for not updating?

I wish there's a day between Sunday and Monday

I used to like starting my week! Until I got overloaded with work, until I got challenged working with people around me.. 

I even dreamt of customer service concern last night... I'm really overloaded and pressured by both of my jobs but I will never give up any of the two. I know this is just a phase. Its just that,I really hate it when I dream about work. It feels like I let my guard down and let it enter my safe space.. now its harrassing me even when I am sleeping!

I hope September will start smoothly, as I am celebrating my 1 yr of work with my UK employer!

Amen to that!

On the bright side, I got to do a couple of things this weekend:

1. Gardening

2. Bought some kitchen home improvements 

3. Cooked for the first time: rice (yes!) grilled porterhouse steak and baby back ribs and gravy! (as I craved for our favorite Rap's steak)

So I guess its a weekend well spent which made me look forward to next weekend, again.

I nist hope i wont get sore eyes as I woke up looking like this....

now my right eye is red!

So there! Hafta sleep, long work week ahead! Good day fellow readers!

Can I juggle 3 jobs?

If you've been reading my posts or if you have somewhat catch a glimpse of my facebook profile, you'd easily spot i have been working full time for 2 companies.

yep, as a GM of our family business and 2nd as a Customer Experience Assistant in Stockshifters (Recoverex).

I have managed to work for about a year now but can I accommodate 1 more job?

Here are some clues:

hehehe well, im trying out my luck as a plus size model :) Im joining an icon search and hopefully it will be positive!

I guess I'll have to update you soon!

I deserve a bottle of Jack!

this workweek is sooo stressful but its true, it will make your day worse if you let it affect you. i thought i will not survive! 

HPIE work made me re-revaluate my leadership style. Sorry peeps, I'm not changing. It's not my fault if i used to work at ISO certified companies. Its all about standards!

Recoverex work made me challenge my self more, to step up my game, focus, prioritize and most of all prolong my patience! I have to discover processes that will make my work easier!

Still i'm thankful that this week is over and I guess I can enjoy a bottle of jack now. Not!

New Year Resolution: Focus Rather Than Multitask

Happy New Year!

Things have worked out pretty well for me! We held our first successful Christmas Party at work, which pictures can be seen at our Facebook Page. I've met several big clients the past months and have well implemented a lot to improve organization of our company. On the sides, I finished my 3-month Jazzfunk and Hiphop classes. I have been doing admin/online work gangnam style, in short.

But really, I am writing because I finally had the chance to update my blog because I followed the only rule in finishing tasks quickly: focus instead of multitasking.

Having worked as an Assistant General Manager for our company whilst working as an Online Content Merchandiser (work from home) made master the skill of multi-tasking but after months of doing it, I realized it is more of a hindrance rather than a technique.

To quote an article that appeared in The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology and Society:

In modern times, hurry, bustle, and agitation have become a regular way of life for many people — so much so that we have embraced a word to describe our efforts to respond to the many pressing demands on our time: multitasking. Used for decades to describe the parallel processing abilities of computers, multitasking is now shorthand for the human attempt to do simultaneously as many things as possible, as quickly as possible, preferably marshalling the power of as many technologies as possible. (Christine Rosen, The Myth of Multitasking, 2008)

Since I decided to take in another full time work, I told myself that I can do this since I am a woman and a master of accomplishing things all at the same time. But then I found myself stressed out and missing out some important points because I lack focus. As the picture above states: Multitasking-screwing up several things at once. Here's a great blog post from Dean Somerset on why multi-tasking never works.

So my 2013 New Year's resolution is to focus on one task a time.

I made a strict schedule for my work:

Mondays thru Fridays
9am-12nn - Online Content Merchandise Work
1pm - 4pm - All admin work, fieldwork and other demands of Asst. GM
5pm - 10pm (which usually runs till 11 or 12am) - Online Content Merchandise Work


Saturdays - Whole day Accounting and HR Admin work for HPIE

Sundays - Praise and Worship and Malling with Hubby

I usually sleep 12mn or 1am since I browse the net and update my social networking sites nightly :)

At times like this, I don't miss days of spontaneity because it messes my schedule which leaves a lot of things undone so I plan and book every weekends with different activities to keep my life fun and interesting.

Trust me, it is very effective to focus on single tasks rather than juggling all of them all at the same time with the goal of trying to finish ahead of time. Really, multitasking is a time waster and for the new year, this is the best time to leave old methods behind!

Goodluck!