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Pre-book booklet: The skilled worker journal

What I would like from the types of readers:

- if you get my ‘vibe’ direct me.

- If you don’t get my ‘vibe’, ask me.

- If you want to work on your language or ‘perfecting’ your skills,

include me in your life!

I started writing this book when I decided that I would only offer the skills I

was taught to a place that I honestly think I could add value to, and I agree

with their ‘core work’.

Products, services, the sectors:

The reason why I decided to work from products up, is to re-focus our

attention on real productivity rather than services and greed.

Marketing: theory and messy practice

The burst

If there was one skill you would work hard on to enhance your job, what

would it be?
I’m at a point in life, like many other people, who is starting to question

everything, but I still want to be productive in what I do. Words are

something I think about a lot, given what I’ve studied, so naturally, I’m

wondering where all words, concepts and conventions came from. I’m

restructuring my priorities, de-cluttering expectation, and getting a clearer

picture of where I want my career to go from here. I find that every time I

question a work-related process, or a life-related concept that is widely

accepted or enforced, there is someone who has gone there before me.

This shows me it is a natural human process to like structure, but that it’s

okay to move pieces around. Even if it means starting all over, from rock

bottom.

I was shocked when I entered the workplace how much business

knowledge I need to know – even in education! I was like little tuna fish in

the fish kingdom.

This is the inspiration behind writing this booklet. I am trying to come face

to face with my personality, who I am, and what I can offer the

workplace.
My main job has been working with ESL students, and ASL students. My

academic background is in applied linguistics, and I focused on

processes of learning in the workplace after that.

I don’t like traditional schools, or mundane learning, but I also like

structure. Where in the world do I fit? Also, the reason why I cannot write

a full book is because, my ‘second’ language interferes with my writing

process, and it might end up more straining than enjoyable at this time!

The other reason I won’t be able to write it at the moment is because I am

not ready to compile the research properly! These are merely thoughts

that have been rummaging through my head throughout my ‘training’

experience.

I love the concept of ‘workplace’, and refining specific skills. These skills

sometimes get lost in a hack of piling expectations. The issue is that skills

take time to master, and quality is a job in and of itself! The other issue is

that skills come in pairs, but get lost when they’re not folded before being

placed in the huge pile of laundry – in this case, workplace tasks and

expectations.

I must admit, I didn’t think I’d have anything to add to workplaces before.

I worked in a doctor’s office before getting into language training, in


customer service, in farms, and at home, doing different things. The only

places where we’ve received formal training were call centers. It is only

recently that I look back and think: those training sessions could have

been enhanced. However, thanks to researchers, the process of adult

learning has become a burden to learn about, and implement in fast-

paced environments. And I’m sure I’m not the only one who questions

corporate stacking of people, capitalism, and ‘regulations’ that are set in

stone. Listening to the radio yesterday – usually a platform that airs more

‘free’ opinions of people, I heard a host say ‘regulations are regulations!’

After-burst

Questions do not stop rummaging in our heads, but regulations control or

suppress them. I am going to start the free-the-questioning reflection

game now, and you can carry on…

In my case, I will accept that I’m an adult, and keep my questions in line

with the ‘hidden’ objective of this booklet.

Is performing better at your work-place the best indication that you’ve

mastered a ‘raw’ skill?

Can you sometimes learn something from your workplace…that can drive

you out of that place?!

Is that ethical?!
What are the measurements of success in communication skills?

Are there measurements of success in language learning?

Why is it difficult to learn a new language?

Why do some people make it seem easy?

Why are skills in language learning divided into listening, reading, writing

and speaking?

Why are affective skills not given a separate entity world-wide?

How did a messy language (mostly spelling mess) become one of the

world languages?

Are there languages that are ‘better’ than others?

Who says you can’t create new words,that may make life and spelling

easier?

Who created all those terms for concepts that we might really not agree

with?

How would you know as a second language learner if concepts are true

or not?

Who says language acquisition theories precede the learning process

when we were younger?

Who gets to define a child’s language as ‘good’, when they could be the

biggest bully in the world?

So then, who sets the moral linguistic guidelines?

Who said we can never change international language exam systems?


Who says they make people’s lives easier, when people struggle to

achieve bands?

Finally…

What have been the most successful methods in masters a skill in the

workplace? Can we begin to break this down, using language as an

example? To satisfy my full curiosity, can we add a product to add some

use to this booklet?

It’s lunchtime! I will be back to write some more.

Separating the pieces

“Things get worse before they get better”, my friend told me years ago.

Over lunch, we talked about how many people travel to work in places

that may have fewer restrictions and regulations, which isn’t always a bad

thing. It might be a gate to releasing more creative juices. I think many

people have a gut feeling when they haven’t been given the chance to

create. So where is the middle ground? Who puts the regulations?

In my travels, I noticed that many people in high positions are not really

that scary. Some of them are not that competent either, which is why
sometimes regulations don’t make sense in the workers’ end! One

measure to whether regulations work or not is looking at the end result, not

just specific agendas, to promote equality. Who says that equality is

detrimental in our world?

For example, one of the companies we’ve visited to run some language

training specialized in railroad materials. If the outcome of this material, its

actual, and its safety isn’t the main measurement of its success, I’d have

an issue with that. The questions that would stem here are:

Is the person in charge of purchasing material competent enough to pick

good material?

Is someone trying to save a buck?

And in my little training world duties, my question was… why are we using

irrelevant, pre-set material as opposed to creating railroad-friendly

material to teach and practice?

I had to get this out of my system because this was the case and norm

across all clients we’ve worked with. When some of us brought this issue

up, we were expected to create the material on top of our duties.


This is where I think change can happen.

Birds eye-view of the mess

So, who are the real stakeholders and what are the main criteria in

training creation? It looks like this in my brain:

Skill
outcome the the the
worker trainer managers

All I would be doing with this model is giving the manager the raw version

of what the training should look like to achieve mastery of the skill. What I
imagine would happen this is mending the training so that it would match

the other end’s goals and objectives. Is that necessarily bad? Not if the

worker doesn’t mind.

As a trainer, I try to bring in the appropriate learning method that would

match the skill. Over the years, combining the work we’ve done in

language training, and in designing trainings for skills where you have

access to the SME (Subject matter expert), this is what propose.


To Friend at starbucks ~














Skill:



























I’m leaving space after the diagram on purpose. Space and

‘uncramming’ learning is good. Yes I made up that word. Sorry to

language authorities; at this moment, this is the thought that popped into

my mind.

I think my issue is that many skills, products and outcomes need to be

perfect in order for them to be durable. If we cram things, can you

imagine the result?

The story of the title of the previous diagram is the following. I stop by star

bucks and get talking to the barista about English preparation for

education purposes. The same diagram above popped into my head


and decided to share the same idea of ‘how to build a skill’. It is not an

exhaustive method, but one that go along as a guide, so as not to get

lost:

- in the pool of programs and curriculums out there

- in cramming skills

So the idea here is to start, again, with the skill as the nucleus. You can

then, work with the trainee to pick six activities that will be on-going for a

set period of time or until mastery is achieved.

In English training, I choose the typical skills and domains as my rotationally

activities.

- Listening

- Reading

- Writing

- Speaking

- Grammar and vocabulary

In the case of workplace language training, I would fit it into this kind of

program, after defining the skills and ‘rough’ measurability scales


Daily strain-free Morning Mid-day Evening

communication

and activities

Weekly meetings Learner presents grammar and vocabulary to me or

group

Can use my LanguageWall method too

Monthly Application project Repeated at the second

application month

Yearly Review skill-based language material periodically

Organizing my messy brain

We see all kinds of training topics in the workplace. I would still organize it

like this:
exploring self-
purpose in the
setting

product related
skills

service skills

marketing skills

Now, adding some melody to the dryness above

I have learned so much from my teachers. By teachers, I mean everyone

I’ve ever formally learned from and students I’ve worked with. I could not
express to students I’ve worked with how much I’ve learned from them. I

almost felt bad getting paid with all that I have learned!

The first person that pops into my mind is someone who used to actually

work as a brand designer. He used to design stationary logos, as far as I

remember. He told me to ‘look at my yellow and black pencil’, and

reflect for a minute. He said ‘someone designed this look, and the writings

on pencils’. How awesome was his job, I thought. I almost wished that

instead of being in schools and classrooms, we were just ‘allowed’ to

roam the world, (but based on my brainstormed model above, spend a

few days shadowing), we could just visit workplaces and creative

people’s workplaces. That’s all.

I felt sad that this creative designer had to go through rigid and formal

language training to be considered for a promotion. Again, I am not

against ‘some’ regulations, but the beauty in language is its organized but

limitless arrangements, subtle detail in meaning and intricate interrelation

with our lives and personalities.

The second awesome person I’ve met was a lady who worked in what I

imagined and called at that time ‘typical and professional business

setting’. I was asked to teach a business English course for the first time,
and she was not impressed with my language-based approach. I was

politely asked to step down and someone else taught the course. You

could teach business English from either end, it would just have different

objectives and goals. It was new to me to look at students as ‘clients’ and

‘customers’ who ‘were always right’! Even with the teacher switch, she did

not continue the course. So, it wasn’t my appearance, or specific

teaching style – I think that she was looking for ‘business communication

training’ and not pure ‘language-building- skills. My Lord – the subtle

differences!

Can I even attempt to pick a teacher, T.A., learning partner or co-worker

to start expressing gratitude towards? Or would I be able to tally what I’ve

learned from each ‘category’. I might be able to, because not being

able to choose someone does not undermine what I’ve learned – I just

wouldn’t know where to start or end. The trainer in me is coming out and I

would organize everyone who wasn’t a ‘student’ like this:

Teachers classmates Guest speakers

Experiential learning Professional friends TA’s

opportunities

Professors Researchers Marketers


Managers Accountants! Program coordinators

Student affairs Administrators

specialists

The new hot topic in the workplace

In some workplaces, I found that there was a new trend and what I look

at as ‘new vocabulary’ in the workplace (new, only because I had never

heard it in my workplaces before). The new vocabulary all revolved

around: meditation and self-care.

I don’t know if this was a new topic in the world timeline, or if I just was

never aware of it. It doesn’t matter, but here is my two scents (here are

my two-scents?).

Meditation, slowing down, self-care, empathy are all great concepts. I

technically should not include empathy here, because some empathy is


considered ‘professionally needed’, and in the ‘skill-based model’

approach – it is important to achieve quality in the end. I added empathy

to the new words I was hearing in my workplace because the people who

were talking about meditation were not always empathetic from my

window-view.

Does that mean, as humans, we are collectively agreeing that we all

have spiritual aspects to what makes the ‘self’. International workplaces

regulations include a sense of hush-hush about spiritual matters. Is this the

best way to work, focus on tasks and skills, and to be productive? Or are

we suppressing our spiritual dimensions? My last question in this: why is

meditation encouraged in the workplace, and whom are we calling upon

when we’re meditating?

Health in the workplace

Several opportunities are presented throughout our lives to travel. I do not

think I would not classify traveling as an opportunity – until this point in my

life. It is an intense experience! The only dialogue I find missing in travel

preparation talks, workshops and courses is : in-depth health talks –

despite the fact that there are typical illnesses associated with traveling. Is

getting vaccinated the only needed preaparation?


One of the difficulties we face in our lives is that there is so much to learn.

There are so many things we individually have to do to stay informed and

healthy. The solution the education system chose to deal with this is by

teaching us different subjects through school. I think this had its pros and

cons. I will start it here and you can add some if you would like to.

pros cons

Having background information to Chopped information

topics we might need to learn later

in life

Someone cared enough to diverse Reduction of other priorities

our education

Creating program-based learning Removing deeper emotional and

moral behaviours
Anyways! The results of what we’ve learned throughout our lives show up

at the workplace. Our endurance during difficult times and how we

manage our health will come up at some point. The problem this time is

that your workplace is not going to have a full dedicated program to your

individual health management. There are programs put in place, but

they’ve been put to help the mass and not the individual. It is your

responsibility to seek what works best for you.

What’s funny is that I’m starting to sound just as harsh as what people

describe ‘the real world’ out there ‘a harsh, cold place’. Sometimes, it is us

who have a harsh and cold outlook.

Compassion towards yourself and others is what is missing. So along with

public health systems, here is a diagram to help hone in and zero-in to a

specific issue that might arise health-wise.

Learn about the body Create/find your own Explore all sorts of

through books and health community medicine

videos
The issue ________________________

Refresh your purpose in Find a good local Don’t be afraid to

life (& afterlife( coach or a virtual one reduce your speed-

slow down

Nothing is wrong with slowing down. In fact, sometimes, its exactly the

right thing to do. It is painful in the beginning but you might actually re-

enter the world more mindful of what you give and take on this earth.

Let us stop this conversation here, and leave room for your imagination

and reflection. I would love to hear your response!

Back to skills

This is the right time to refocus to the main theme of this book(let). If you

fall ill at any point in life, you still have the chance to think about your

work, the product or service you work on. For me, this looked like this.
My main product/service is helping people improve their language skills. I

start thinking about how historically people learned language through

immersion. I also don’t think a lot of money was involved. It seemed that

as you could watch someone live his or her daily lives and toil away, you

could passively learn a language. This, partially, explained why there were

so many exhausted faces in my classrooms. This was my zone and exciting

activity of the day. The language learner has other things they are

working on on top of coming to the classroom.

I start thinking, at some point, about how we can keep the class activities

directly related to the students’ daily activities. I wouldn’t be the one

deciding what these tasks are, they would be. Now, what workplace

would I fit in, when all language centers have more set curriculums. I think

freelancing has always run in my blood. I still like repetitive tasks – I don’t

always like to think and rebel. So I started to think about the most basic of

life’s products. I put services aside for a while.

The Primary Sector examples…

wood crops
steel

In one way or another, primary material is part of every workplace. It is

either used or worked on. Even if we are creating a product, there are

material that have already been on earth by the time we came to

change it around physically, chemically or biologically. Some workplaces

either make things better for our earth, or make things worse. Using words,

we can make our workplace seem really vital, and it can continue to

exist. We can lure people with marketing so that our pockets stay full of

money. Money is not a raw material though. Hence, raw material is more

valuable than paper money.

Remember, this is all me (and normal humankind) brainstorm processes.

I decided that I’d need to shift attention to raw material workplaces and

perhaps making little change in secondary and tertiary sectors, step by

step, in collaboration with other people.


So back to the model of skill-building, in combination with training

methods and language domains:

The core:

Prep./material
__________________ Steps
__________________ ________________
__________________ ________________
__________________ ________________
Skill ________________
________

Refine/repeat Success scale


________________ __________________
________________ __________________
________________ __________________
________________ __________________
________
Another image:
Why am restructuring my thoughts about training, when there might seem

like there is enough training and learning happening in our institutions?

1. first, consider me a student, who is trying to make sense of all that

has been taught to us in institutional settings.

2. I have no problem with setting up processes and curriculums. I have

an issue with some of people’s motives behind these processes.

3. What we consider ‘freedom of thought’ is not really free in any way.

Our thoughts are always bound by something or someone else’s

thoughts. Even when our thoughts start freeing up, they are not the

scale of what is right and wrong. It is a tool, and requires a skill set as

well.

4. People who have created these skill-sets benefit more than you do,

as the end-receiver. But in reality, you might be the one doing all

the work.
So, lets do brain-talk now

Our brains have been proven to be a tool, not a ruler. The way our world

looks like is a result of many people depending on their own brains to

come up with solutions. I believe the real ruler of our thoughts should be

the heart. If the goodness of a product or service is at the core of our

objectives, sustainability with be achieved.

We’ve all heard the term ‘over-thinking’. I used to say, one over-thinks

when someone else is under-thinking. But I think we over-think and exhaust

our minds when we stop having a compass – the heart. I don’t mean the

physical one only, because that would depend on nutrition mainly. I

mean the moral, values-based, and environmental compass.

If we do actually have all those compartments in our brain, (including a

‘language box’), it should still not wow us to the point of worshipping the

brain. There are things that have already been put in place, way before

the brain came into being, and that is why we should leave the brain in

its’ correct ranking, which is a very simple ranking system.

- heart
- then brain.

Family first?

What happens if you’re in total immersion of producing work, and life

gives you a ring. Someone keeps calling you because there either a dire

need, or a young family member who just feels like chatting with you.

Where do we draw the line in setting priorities? For people who meditate

at work, some put meditation set times first, and some might say ‘I’m in the

middle of a life and death situation’.

This is my issue in working in places with too many people. The diversity in

values would just overwhelm me…or I might just be part of a crowd, so no

one would notice if I pick up my phone, or decide to take a break.

Part of a crowd, or the black-sheep (literally)

Some companies depend of dehumanizing of products of services for

their ‘survival’, or reaching the core of actual human building blocks to

reach their organization goals. Imagine that we live a planet where both
co-exist. How intricate are these webs and connections between

companies.

Remember food-webs? J

Source of money

I watched a documentary at some point that attempted to explain the

cycle of money. I was shocked only because I had never seen it that

clearly before. It clarified how the debt cycle is very important in our

current monetary systems. So, where do people fall if they don’t want to
be in the cycle of debt? It just seems like the strange thing these days to

not be in debt.

When you look at people who look rich from the outside, you actually

have no clue what they work as or where they get their money. You don’t

know if someone is suffering for him to enjoy what he or she doing or how

he or she is living. Many products and services would not come to be if it

wasn’t for the toiling of people. This is not a unique topic – learning about

human rights and labour rights. However, it is hard to change what you do

if you are dependent on money to an extreme. At some point, we should

be willing to restructure, reflect and consider going back to our well of

values.

Taking advantage of people is not a good thing. The last thing I had

hoped for this book to evolve into is a distant or educational spank – to

others or myself. But in order to be able to look at our core product and

service, some changes do have to be made. Those who have initiated

humane projects that restore labour rights need to be supported in one

way or another.

Its not only a remote person in a remote place that can be taken

advantage of. Because I have worked with children before in language


learning settings, I heard the dialogue of some parents revolve around

building their child’s skill which is great in general. But who says that this

child is your slave to mold? They get molded to be able to survive for

themselves after the previous generation leaves them behind. Yes, I do

believe in nice manners and being good to your parents, but not

enslavement in any form. If you’re nice to your child, they have no reason

to not support you when you need it. You won’t always be making

money. You won’t always be working on the core product – family and

community development is core too. So in the large scale, money systems

need to be understood and mended too, in order to have a good

community.

What is product and monetary system perfection?

So this gets us talking about product success measurability. I cannot talk

about the large picture yet because I have an issue with mass

companies. That in itself causes the product to lose value and focus. A

good product to me is:


environmentally-
friendly

durable
core necessary
product

not detrimental to
health

Does this mean I cancel everything that doesn’t fall in these categories?

This is not exhaustive but I am only talking from my experience. I’ve also

met people who sell products that:

- are unnecessary

- not well-researched

- can be very harmful

of course, it is not easy to be exhaustive in our product researching before

we launch things, because we need to make money (sometimes). But as


long as you are mindful of your product throughout its lifespan, things

should be kind of fine. For example, I don’t know why we still see a lot of

sugary foods and cereals in a time where health research cannot be

clearer of its detrimental effects. There might be detrimental employment

effects if companies get shut down, but here is a place where discussion

can take place, to weigh the pros, cons, and solutions.

pros cons

Solutions:

Another quick aspect before closing this brainstorm is that many mass

companies (made-up term?) did not start with evil financial goals to begin

with. I am sure that many products DO start as solutions to problems we

keep facing.

So lets talk poverty then.


I think about poverty aimlessly. I don’t think that I’m making any proper

effort. I don’t know if I wrote this above, but I had watched a video where

two professors discussed poverty and concluded that if you don’t work on

one specific project, the work is inefficient. I will leave it at this for now.

Grammar at work

It might seem weird that I’m jumping into grammar, but part of the

eradication of poverty is working on our education systems. Part of the

picture is improving our language and people’s languages in order for

them to communicate for work purposes. You would think that:

People with strong language = are richer

People with poor language skills = are poor

But there have always been opportunities of making money (I actually

really dislike this coined term) from physical work. It is actually an equally

important skill to know, grow, or be able to create a product, work

repetitively and consistently.


The education system alone is not enough in the quest to eradicate

poverty. You can sound as grammatically perfect as you want, but if you

have not been supported (or asked for support) enough to get a job, then

you’ve left room for stronger-willed people to get the job you wanted.

We wouldn’t have services like auto-correct and grammarly if people

making good money were all grammatical polices. I, for one, may have

learned prescriptive grammar, but I don’t always use it. I also have

interference from another language. But, what if you work in customer

service, and your clients notice those miniature issues?

Dehumanizing customer service

Who says that being a good customer service representative means

having perfect grammar? If you can resolve issues by connecting rather

than sounding perfect, shouldn’t that be fine?

Customer service in some situations has evolved into becoming a dry job

where you just treat people as numbers, and the agent has a number too.

This is good because you can focus on the task, but when the issue
requires putting masks down, then you and the customer need to find a

moment of ‘connection’ to resolve what you’ve been faced with.

When I worked in customer service, I had a client say to me “excuse me

while I cry for a minute and come back to you’. I’m sure anyone who has

worked in customer service has had these moments where you just don’t

have the authority to do something extra for the customer.

I think that working in customer service during high school years was the

first time I started thinking about training programs. We had the most dry

trainings usually. Other than the atmosphere, I didn’t feel like the objective

was to empower us as agents, which might have created more endured

results. Any ways, I’m talking too generally now.

Mass clients

So, training programs success measurability is based on the maintenance

of client quota. I hope I did not word that wrongly. If a company has

thousands of clients, losing one might not be taken into consideration

when creating the training program. The personal development of each

agent isn’t top priority either, because there is a flow of new people who

join the agency all the time.


In this case, it is up to you, the trainee, to enhance your life somewhere

else, even though having a healthy agent overall means good return of

investment for the company – but again, depending on the model. Over

time, things might crash.

It might be too much to say ‘some customer service training is lacking

compassion and genuineness’, however, if these core values are missing

in someone’s heart, I’m not sure how long being stoic can carry someone

in their mission and work.

So, basically, I’d still keep the ‘product’ or ‘service’ as the core, but I think

its success does depend on overall wellness of people working in a

common zone. It is not a waste of time to explore some matters, free of

judgment.

“why don’t they get what they need from their families or from outside

therapy”?

When I was working in customer service, I made just enough to cover my

basic expenses. I had braces to attend to on top of that. Trust me, I had

no intention of spending any more to look for life-coaches. My family is


great, but we are so different in character that finding what I need in

order to perform in a job place where they don’t work in – is not ideal!

Humans are a community, and always expecting the support to come

from family members is not enough.

Evolved Brain-washing marketing

Commercials never bothered me growing up, and youtube commercials

don’t bother me either. They are short and entertaining, just enough to

match short attention spans. But, over time, I get more and more

overwhelmed thinking about the amount of research marketers have

done to tug the viewers’ inner buyer. It’s crazy. And I’m not very happy

about it. Because after having some products for so long, you look at it

again and think ‘why do I even need that? Oh wait, I didn’t – it just looked

enhanced and more appealing in the commercials’. How is that

sustainable for a company? It might be sustainable for one generation to

have guaranteed income for their lifetime, but then what? Or it might be

something that just harms people, and you have made enough money to

cover your behind partnering with the legal system. Come on.

Restructuring our systems


What if things were built on real human need and genuineness? I think

that would ensure product sustainability more. You don’t have to make a

product that harms millions of people to guarantee a buck for yourself

and the people you care about. You would live just fine if have food,

basic shelter and fresh air. No wonder minimalists’ lifestyles have become

a big thing. I know I might sound behind so far with a lot of my thoughts in

this book/blog/training brainstorming, but at some point you have to let

things out of the system to explore them even more, or have the ideas be

criticized or enhanced. I think I’m looking for a good community to work

with.

Tax systems as an example

The main concept of tax is a good one. In some religions, the calculation

of paying from your income is different, but the concept is there. When

people think that they deserve more percentage than they should, and

the tax calculations are off. You can convince yourself all you want that

you deserve every penny, but the person paying the tax also thinks they

deserve more of their income.

So where is the balance? Who sets them? As long as the laws are

tampered with, we will continue to have imbalanced equations. It will be


hard to think of the core product and service without keeping so many

regulations in mind, if the product or service itself actually is good for the

people and the environment.

Before these systems came into place, there was still an earth, raw

materials, and a need for survival. I suggest we keep that survival as the

core, not just money.

International language testing

Speaking of laws, if I am given the chance to speak about international

exams, we wouldn’t end it in a few lines, because this is where I could go

into detail on how some research points to the fact that language is not

as rigid as the scales they put in these exams. They are also made with

mass people in mind, so the individual is not in mind. The tests are based

on average capability. This made room for us to work as trainer, but after

a while, my approach changed. Some skill approaches are set, but by the

time the person realizes they need the ielts exam, they have to cram their

preparation. I just heard someone yesterday say that English is the

language of business. This is true only if your target audience is English-

speaking. So to me this means if you plan well, you’d also prepare early
enough, otherwise, be mindful of the possible consequences (just as it

happened in my life).

The balance

Does that even actually exist? How can you concentrate on your work

and tackle personal issues at the same time?

In the last training I’ve attended, our trainer was talking about the stresses

of piling expectations. Sometimes, we are like sponges to these

expectations.

There is a way to be content with yourself, and doing things alone, but we

always need to be part of a community. That’s a concept I still agree with

100%. I remember my science professor explaining the vitality of that.


Don’t be afraid to start over

I keep hearing that it is actually good to balance creativity and routine. It

is also good to balance between listening to ‘authority’ in the field you

work in, and allow your mind to think creatively sometimes. We don’t

always have to start all over because that is a scary territory. However, it

should be okay to restructure.

Our concept of time and ascetic obsessing

Ever since I watched Stephen Hawking’s movie on time, I’ve been thinking

about it deeper. I like that we can divide tasks into increments of time, but

if it just never ends, it makes me think beyond this life too. I think we have

enough intelligence to think about it, but it seems to be a good concept

and not a scary thing.

Selling EVERYTHING

I’ve been having an issue with this lately. Before I said ‘wait a minute’,

after my friend pointed this out to me, I was happy that I could look up

any service I needed – I just needed to pay for it. And if something was

free, there is a catch behind it. There are a lot of basic communal services
that don’t need to be sold. I understand that services gradually made

itself into the market, but that needs to calm down.

The melody of language

I started questioning the structure of the language teaching business

when I just kept feeling everyday, and confirming, that it has entered the

‘product’-like process. It did make things very organized for me, but I

didn’t feel like I was reaching my full potential in helping my students

reach their potential: the highest level of fluency.

When relationships affect ‘your core work’

I was watching an episode of a business reality show, where people were

competing to work for a billionaire in the U.K. He found it hard to disqualify

one of the contestants because she was really good at what she does.

But she broke down and cried one day because of an illness of a family

member. That happened to me at work one day, and I couldn’t go to

work. I always think about this. Where do you draw the line?

TV shows
Surface living

My concept of children

Some workplaces feed on death of people, but it didn’t start that way

Contemporary slavery or lazy traits?

Im not a natural entrepreneur

How would you even know with this suppressive learning system?

Business and trade with the arab world

The English language was created for business and It succeeded but it is

short-lived.

Who sets the laws?

You cannot explore something that doesn’t exist: negativity and things

that don’t make sense


Negativity can stem when you think or when you’ve planned for

something too specifically that you have not left enough room for change

to occur, or know that life has it’s own counter-plans sometimes, or

conventions. You can either take the short route to fix things, or wait until

whoever is trying to support you to meet you half-way. One thing we

shouldn’t do is get frustrated that someone is not supporting us, especially

a supervisor, when they have a completely different view of things.

One thing I hate about technology is that because it comes with the

illusion that it is making everything easy and attainable, it becomes really

difficult to reconnect with real life and nature.

Macro and micro training in the workplace

Set personality tests annoy me! Even if people are looking for specific

personalities to join their teams, there isn’t a good and bad personality.

There are people who are good at developing others, without micro-

managing them. I just heard a speaker quote celebrities who ‘you would

never want to have in your time’. I wonder why that is.

My thinking about confidence and boldness


Where do you draw the line when it comes to building your confidence

and being too confident without doing the background work? I’m

listening to different workplace trainings who work in training and

development departments. Immediately and naturally I think:

- This is someone that can help me enhance my core skills

- This is someone who is just doing their job, without connecting with

me

- This is someone I’m stuck with, so I have to just find what they can

help me with.

Personally, because I’m planning to approach more training and

development departments, especially organizations that I believe in, I go

in with my baggage of confidence plus fears. I am hyper aware

sometimes about my skin colour sometimes, and bilingual mess in my

mind. But this means I have to be honest with myself to decide whether I

can be helpful or not. As for my demographical ‘orientation’, it is up to the

other person to decide whether they can put that aside, and focus on

task/training.

Who decides how much work is just enough?


What is your product? What is your service? I think this will always be the

heart of the matter, and the water in a well system. However, everyone’s

main production can be a different part.

There will always be someone who wants to go from this:

To this (supposedly a modern well system)


and then people like me who would question which is more sustainable,

not just modern-looking. But there are always people who just focus on

economical sustainability.

Where is mid-way when you’re trying to meet someone?

There’s still a disconnect between ‘levels’ at working, as I’m listening to this

trainer

Stepping out of the workplace, and then coming back to training and

development

There is a way to be productive in your work, your position, or your

department and still be comfortable with yourself and energy level. It

becomes a problem when what you do is completely skewed to

someone else’s goals.

Real life quotes for the workplace:

The healing movement has always been there, we’re just been sprinting

too fast to listen to our bodies.


If you don’t do the work, your body will collapse before your current life is

actually over.

Rising after every fall can actually be very exhausting.

If you don’t address tiny issues, they will grow

Compassion is not against productivity

Product quality measures need reordering

Suppressing human needs is not a good thing. If it keeps nagging, it is a

thing of human nature.

Putting work in the core doesn’t mean ignoring the outer circles in your

life.

What is the opposite of learning?

What is the opposite of teaching?

Is there a way we can teach without it being so direct?


Can compassion and positive production co-exist?

Pictures speak 1,000,000,000 words, so If reading 3 books can make you

knowledgeable in one topic, imagine ‘reading’ three pictures.

How to be patient in dealing with clients individually

Making financial goals, and a whole life plan, without feeling bored.

Live in boredom and enjoy it, or change it. Constant changing is good,

consistent changing is good. What is change though?

Evil does exist in this world, you just have to realize that you yourself are

too weak to deal with it on your own.

- When chemicals and bacteria hit hard but you don’t know what to do

yet.

When you decide that sadness and despair don’t do anything.

When you know, there must be a creator.

When you just, have zero knowledge.

When you realize you have an average of about 18,000 days to live.

When you realize, you have a lot of ancestors that are hoping for your

survival.

When you realize, not everyone cares about the primary sector or Allah.

Is it bad to want to enjoy your life?

How to present your ideas.


Short course on linguistics

- quiz

- animated powerpoint introduction

- next video

o 2 questions

- introduce yourself and why you’re taking this course.

Imagine writing the names of all the people in your life and what you

have learned from them?

Imagine you can paint what your extreme fears look like.

Imagine reading all the books you want to read.

Imagine making a program for that.

Imagine making a whole life program.

Imagine greatness after death.

Imagine every second in your life is great.

You can be happy with any situation, not just a stimulant.


Name all your emotions.

Being afraid to share your knowledge, learn and continue to grow.

We’re going towards the end of life, people are changing everyday, and

your presence in their lives can make or break their next moment.

What is your optimal production level?

Physical optimization mind heart


Negativity is a big, unreal cloud. This shows us that there is a life beyond

the physical calmness we see around us.

You have to jump out of your fear, and keep jumping even if it hurts. You

have to keep reading, but tallying the books that you need to achieve

your goals. You have to have an accountability buddy.

You have to know how to live through poverty and wealth, through

sickness and health.

You have to know how to give from what you have consistently. You have

to know how to care for yourself and if you think its selfish, you have to be

well so you can help others.

Product, services and selling

A phd: reproduction of 30-40 books.

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Fears

I was thinking about and watching videos about organizational structures.

Even though it looks great because it may actually help people get into

the jobs they want, but on the other hand it causes new people in the
industry to not flourish. I think humans can flourish from a very young age.

Our educational systems, on a large scale, do not harness those

capabilities very well. Our corporate structures and governmental

structures can cause things to take too long to happen, and in between,

people may be suffering.

Yes I am speaking from personal experience, but to be honest, overall

wellness and flourishing is a societal effort so I am not the only one who

was affected, or reacted in a way that reflected how I truly felt.

I used to look up to all doctors, and respect all institutions and workplaces,

but now I know not everyone is good just because they have a high title

or have money to have an institution. I know this sounds very general, but I

also don’t think we live in doom. I used to also think, do we have a real

voice that is not based on anyone else’s rules, but based on real universal

and natural rules.

Back to nature to find solace! To unwind! Yes, many people go on

vacations but what have we done for someone else to unwind too? Its

true, family comes first, but then what about the rest of the people?

This is a day where I really don’t feel like writing. I am focused on my

blood, and why my veins are popping. I am thinking about my creator

and what he would like from me. I am thinking about why I am not living in

my ideal community. Can I just live online so that I’m never depending on

my ignorance and living in a cycle of ignorance and pain? I feel like, I


want to produce specific things properly and with deadline but I want to

work with a team. I know I am working with a team but we are not all in

the same place! And those people who do a lot of good work but don’t

know about islam, I feel like I want to tell them all about it but in a way

that values their lives and works. We make it seem sometimes like

everyone will go to heaven, or that all will go to hell. I feel like I’m in a

place where we are not working collectively for da’wah. And if that

happens, we feel like we might be tortured somehow from the inside or

outside.

It hasn’t helped me to live in fear and pain. I don’t know how to remove

the pains, the worries, all of it. Only allah knows how. I feel like I could be

distracted with ilm, memorizing hadith and quran and getting ijazas. But its

like, I don’t have the teacher with me, and I don’t have the buddies with

me who can do that as well. I keep thinking: why am I in st.catharines! I

keep thinking, I should be somewhere else.

I don’t think about my blessings enough, and if I did, I would not be

worried all the time! The names of my creator are complete, but I worry to

show my full love of allah because people around me are not. I went for a

walk to day and I connected with the grass, the sky and clouds because

they constantly worship allah.

I wish I just a little more well off. This writing actually feels very therapeutic

but I am not producing real results. I am on the road but have not
reached my destination. But that’s why they call it destination addiction

or something like that. I want to write more specific stuff, but I don’t know

if I should stick to articles in my field or make a language book reading

section, and listening section.

Keep creating for your field – keep reading – keep creating good

structures.

Reproduction is actually what a ph.D is essentially.

Why am I always looking at what’s missing and my source of pain?

Even though it would be great to be living around people of knowledge

and not in pain. Or get the reward of pain but without the constant mind-

poking. Or, knowing that allah is with me through this!

I wish I could be distracted to the point that I don’t pay attention to the

pain at all, or pay attention to all the blessings, but because I’m inside the

house and the area all the time, and there are family members that don’t

talk to me!

It’s okay!

Issues with workplace training

There is no end to learning. If you think you can live freely without

‘coaches’ and ‘leaders’, you are quite mistaken.


Yes you can become a leader too, but you will always have teachers on

top of you, in every aspect in life. You can shape your personality from all

your teachers that you continue to learn from.

If you don’t let allah guide you through good people and teachers,

someone else is guiding you!

Good things always require work to attain. Hard work = sweating!

Challenges:

Last word…

Motivation to keep learning

My interview with Hamad hospital.

It seems its true that I learn more from my failures.


Activities:

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