As I was walking just before dusk today I walked by an old man with a wooden cane and his driver walking slowly looking at the sun setting in the horizon. To the naked eye an normal sight, to me a slow film that took place in the blink of an eye.

You see this old man was a young boy once, born on the western coast of Jeddah, an ancient city, a port, a business center for all the pilgrims who come in millions to this country every year for pilgrimage.

He was just another son to his family, he was loved, he was brought up right, he went to school like all the others, he decided at his early age he wanted to seek the treasures of the sea for a living, he became one of the fishermen in a blink of an eye.

He worked his way from the filthy fish smelling docks to the fresh aired little fishing boats that set out at the break of dawn daily to see what they can catch and feed their families back on land.

He loved it so much, he gambled with his life many times, but with each risk he took, the rewards were merrier. He soon owned his fishing boat, hired a helper, and set sail daily, when he came back, he had whatever the sea gave him for sale for a few riyals.

He soon owned another boat, and another and then some more. His secret was honesty, honesty amongst traders was key, I wish it was still the case today. He had his little fish shop that sold his daily catch, he also added some flair to his business and started cooking fish dishes for people on shore and shoppers alike, a hit amongst the crowd, his secret recipe: His wife was the cook, Jeddah woman are great at preparing fish dishes.

The years flew by, the changes happened so fast, the children grew older, diversified his wealth into better investments, they bought land and more land, they grew rich as time went by, the father who was once a young boy, admired his children for their support, and loved his wife for her never ending belief and sleepless nights when he was gone.

“ We did good my love, we did good” he once told his wife at the marriage of their last bachelor son. He misses his wife, its been 10 years now she’s been gone, he wonders when his time will come? he prays its in his sleep, so he won’t see his children suffer for his suffering on his dying bed.

The years seem to have flown by like those passing clouds on this breezy day at the beach he thinks to himself. Last thing I remember was starting my job at the docks, now here I am 60 years later, all grown and old, barely moving with a driver on my side to help me around.

The days are numbered, the time will never reactivate and start from zero, your hours are counting to do something, don’t let the silly things bog you down from exploring your body and world while young and able, what you can do is everything and anything, the sky actually is not your limit if you wanted to!

As I walk on by this man, that story actually took place in my mind, my pace was faster, my dreams expanded, the full force of energy levels rose to new heights, the possibilities are endless, the days are numbered, and I want to make the best of them, and I hope you too take a new look every day at what’s important and just GO FOR IT!

mamdooh.alradadi @ home wondering what’s next? in Jeddah, the city by the sea on the 27th of August 2010

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We live and learn daily, sometimes on an hourly basis. We reflect to detect what’s new and   what changes it has caused. We try to know what it’s like, we travel to discover, we read to expand, we continuously chase the unknown.

We laugh because it feels good, or is it we feel good because we laugh? we know what its like, we seem to get bogged down with life’s challenges disguised as momentary misery and pain. We dare to uncover the untold, we hide and seek, but we love to laugh.

I have witnessed many forms of laughs from many people in my life. To some it comes naturally, to others they fight it. Some manage it, some exploit it, some live by it, everything in the end is a laugh, some control it because they were told laughing with no reason is bad manners.

Laughing and smiling, enjoying, living life to the max, accepting diversity, challenges, cultures, humor is all good. Learning to laugh at ones self is the best form of joy you can find. People seem to find the laughter in others, while in reality all they are laughing at is themselves, only this time someone else is making a fool of himself.

What is better than laughing? it’s making others laugh or smile, go ahead and see for yourself, make a person laugh, smile, feel good about themselves, instead of focusing on what’s wrong with people, find what’s great about them and say it as it is, in their face, after that by about one second see their face light up!

Don’t you agree with me some cultures and societies are happier and laugh more than others? which one do you belong to? and if you don’t fit, will you contaminate them or move to another happier crowd?

I bet you can’t wait to try this out right now, go ahead and light up someones day, and while your at it, share a laugh, laugh loud and from your heart.

mamdooh.alradadi laughing out loud in Jeddah on the 13th of August 2010

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Watching an episode  of  ”The Office” drives me into laughter every time for its relativity to working in organizations. The crew on board the show almost represent the majority of the working force out there worldwide.

Giving the manager and his sucking up assistant the spotlight guides you in a magical effortless way to recognize that people know about the stupid things that go on behind company walls.

It’s one of those series that as soon as they release a season I buy it all and watch it back to back, then come back to it over the year, enjoyable every time. The reason why I think I really like it and my son might not, is the relativity factors. I have been there, live there, he has heard but never worked it yet, so he might laugh at other things in the show, while I feel it in my bones.

While rising up corporate ladders I had my share of learning things the hard way, sometimes when its too late, but in the end its all good, as long as I can laugh at what I used to think was right.

I have watched all the original English series, all the American version, waiting for the Arab version to literarily crack up! that is if they ever do it right and do a thorough investigation across the whole region and not just one country to give the international a real deal feel kind of show. If anyone reading this ever makes up her or his mind to make the show, count me in!

Actually that just gave me an idea for another book! wish me luck..

It’s all a market this business world, that was the original idea originally wasn’t it? then we complicated it and made it into the corporate world and a lot of other bi-products, industries, sectors, segments,tiers,layers, boundaries..etc.

The people managing companies(managers) try and sell interested people(customer & workers) that they are the very best out there in this specific time and age, comparing only their strong points, camouflaging their weak points as work in progress.

The worker wants the money, the knowledge, the experience. The Owner want the productivity, the best deal he can get, and the results to achieve his goals. What they both know is there is something missing from the negotiation table, the real story.

Well.. lets jut say that the real story is yet to be told and then discovered. So much fun and action goes on in corporate boundaries I am surprised that no one has jumped to the occasion and said “ now that’s funny!”. Take for instance the following examples:

• The smoking room: Since smoking is being more and more frowned upon and smokers face the sad and ugly truth of the smoking chambers placed strategically in the worst locations and as small as possible for a quick puff of death.

If we take a sample of the daily visitors over a 30 day period, we will find them mostly staff and not managers. Is it because the smoking managers know better and quit smoking? or is it they can actually smoke in their offices because the can? you figure.

• The team work efforts: Managers on their way up scream and talk about team work, team discussions, team efforts, team whatever, and guess who makes up the final decision, uha! the manager you smart person you!

When questioned about the brutal, selfish, one man show decision, you are bombarded with side tracking talk and a sudden look at the watch signaling your time is up!

• Time management: everyone knows what I am talking about. In a nutshell, it’s getting the important things that make a difference done in time. I have witnessed managers that simply are time managements best kept secrets, great examples( of the worst kind).

They seem to know how to screw a whole departments workflow with a few requests and complain about why no real results are seen over the last 6 months? management soon finds out the root of all evil and sends in a permanent solution.

• Interviewing skills: The majority of people in the process seem to rank it low on their priority list, therefore a lot of good candidates get turned off for attitude issues from companies looking to hire them. This is a two way street, always remember that, you are looking and so is the interviewee!

If you cannot interview people, hand it over to the capable, its that simple! enough is enough with this subject.

• Communication: what communication? everyone seems to have hot buttons waiting to be pressed and explode! with al the many courses available and the ones that people took, communication although in my opinion the most important sign of leadership seems to be the least practiced!

Single line emails become essays and lessons in life. One minute phone call requests becomes half hour kissing ass conversations, then end in fights on email. Management styles seem to be in favor of old school bullying techniques, not knowing there are lectures on how bad it is and how harmful it can be to the “Team work”. And much more…So much to laugh about, and so much to learn…

Some people learn by reading and investigating just before they jump, other jump and figure it out. Which one are you?

mamdooh.alradadi thinking about the funny things that happen in companies in jeddah 30th June 2010

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As I checked the mirror one more time to look my best (which somehow seemed to have changed over the years from that teenager look) and checked my mobile, cards, you know the old peoples stuff, I walked the walk to the ballroom.

As I approached the ballroom the guards were everywhere, it was a special evening you see. The governor of our city was coming to give a speech and shed some wisdom on our group of grads who seem to still stick together somehow or the other, he said” we are the people that run the city now” how uplifting is that? the sad thing is, we are the grown ups now!

They say when you focus on something you get to see or feel it more, like the new car you want suddenly its everywhere, or the family vacation that is all over the news, as if its the only thing people are talking about, or the nagging boss that seems to haunt your dreams, just a few examples to refresh your memory of the strange things we take for granted and don’t know what to make of them.

A fine use of the word “INSTEAD”;

• Instead of wondering why you hit that car and ruined your new toy, think how lucky you are to be alive, and while steel remains steel, blood is thicker than water, water is life and you my friend are alive to breath and walk another day.

1. How many times did I rehearse and define my sales presentation before giving it?
2. How many books did I read ( and re-read ) about my industry/career/service/skills?
3. How much time do I spend each day in the gym, and how many days each week, to keep myself physically fit?
4. How many thank you notes and follow up emails do I send to important customers, clients, volunteers, or friends?
5. How much of my income do I invest in myself to further my vocation and my passion?

In a cluttered world filling up with more complications to this oh so simple and wonderful life, we find ways to cut through the clutter. We first start to look inside before we look out, we start to peel our layers to get to the buried long forgotten truth we hold in some safe inner sanctuary, all that for a decision based upon inner approvals.

We face life head on wether we are in bed killing the day or out in the fields farming and making a living. We peel away year after year and wish we could peel faster, little do we know that as time goes by we solidify our inner treasurers, our real deal, and give some selected few someones skeleton keys with a lifelong period. All others will have to prove worthiness of such benefits.

Life moves, people come and go, days seem to be on kick down, changes occur and become the norm, love happens, your heart is taken for a thrill ride on some never charted dangerous waters without safety nets,”Every man for himself” screams the neon warning up ahead! we all love thrill rides to some degree, the scared souls seem to settle down with the first sign of happiness. The thrill seekers seem to become the christopher Columbus of their own seas, they either hunt or get hunted down and sink their fleet.

When each one gets the list of wants and needs for the following years, its all you can eat buffet time! depending on ones greed people fall upon the options as if they were sealed away in some ancient dungeon deprived of minimal human needs. The list consists of choices like being wanted, needed, loved, looked after, beautiful, different, everyone wants to be different, yet we all love the basics.

As time flies by faster than you wanted it to, you look in your rear view mirror and start looking back as your face changes moods in milli seconds to each feeling you get looking back. The laughs, tears, joy, happiness, feelings, successes, wins, misses, people, places, personal victories, defeats, moves, craziness, the ones that got away, the ones the let you go and thats life!

People come visiting every once in a while into your space, they come check you out, say hi, perhaps have coffee, get to know you only a bit better, but they always say we thought we knew you, then you both go further apart and see if you miss them, and so on. You go visiting, we all need people you know. You come across many, thousands of people in your living years, and you seem to attract certain people depending on many factors.

The attraction meter can be controlled by you in many cases, so you attract and distract based upon personal taste and requirements, you also fall into other peoples scan zones, people looking, searching for that one in 6 Billion, what are the odds of finding the right answer to yourself? imagine a jigsaw puzzle with 6 billion pieces and you had to fit somewhere, keep looking, unless you already fit, don’t move someone is looking for you to complete the picture.

When you think you know someone, when you say your sure, when you say I have it figured out, when you say all of those things, ask yourself this; Which layer did I reach in this persons life, how deep did I penetrate? am I close? will she/he let me access more? have I reached a wall? what do I need to do to know more? if you really want something, I guess you should continue digging and never stop the discovery of someone else’s real self. The problem with us is we all fall into the know it all category.

When the danger sirens are turned on and a new layer has been breached, you have reached new frontiers, the penetrated soul will attack to defend its grounds and then be tamed like a wild stallion if they like you, otherwise you will be surrounded and thrown out to the front gates, just like everyone else, depending on how much you want IN you charge forward and use tactics and strategies to move on and in.

Depending on the age and experiences each one of us has, our layers laid one over the other should spell how safe one is, problem is…you can never tell or see such hidden layers, only at very close interactions are they revealed and for small windows in time, then they shut down automatically again. Day in day out people come and visit and get shut down, some are given chances, some are forever forgotten, its as easy as that.

When you judge me, take a closer look, maybe that Mona Lisa is not that after all, maybe the generosity and kindness of Mother Teresa is actually the devil in disguise, maybe the father figure is just a con artist on the run form a previous break in, maybe the playboy is just a front for a loving family man, maybe you are not what you are, maybe I am exactly what I look like and act like? maybe we are all in a big playground needing some love, fun and affection?

I still stand strong with my beliefs and ideas, yes it only took me a life to get here, but you see I only get one, this is no video game with a reset button, its one chance, one big trial and error period, over time I found that I love to fail, the more I fail the more I know, the more I know the better and clearer I see, the wiser I become, the less mistakes in choices occur, the layers grow, one by one, heavier, thicker, more high tech, more dynamic adapting to change as I grow each day, I still stand.

When you want me, take me, for I am yours, but before you lock me down, take a closer look and make sure I am the right one, for I too seek in this cluttered world, and I too have the option to choose, and when I decide its time to move on, you will be nothing more than an image in my rear view mirror, accept that and move on, you had your chances, just like everyone else, stop being selfish, and one more thing; Thanks for the lesson, I owe you. Now let me see the door, I think its the new contractor here to build a new wall

mamdooh.alradadi just before heading to work on 12/5/2010

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In the Arab world, just like the western world and actually around the globe we notice certain nationalities thriving while others diminish or erode over time.

Survival techniques have been with us since creation & inception of mankind, the further back we go in history the more visible and apparent the subject. From cavemen to Vikings & Pharos, Prophets and World wars, it all boils down to survival of the fittest. Monarchies have vanished, new ones have evolved, species wiped out, new ones introduced or discovered in some distant land, nothing stops.

A man sweet talks a young lady at the corner while taking a smoking break, he appears to be a master of his own game, she smiles and listens with some flirtatious moves every once and a while, he continues with his manipulation, getting closer to his goal. She first blows him off guard by stating she is married, he enjoys the game, continues by asking her where her loving husband is while she smokes alone? suddenly she finishes her ciggy and looks him in the eye and asks” what do you do, your words are that of an actor or some famous intellect?” ” I’m kind of a writer” he boasts. ” Kind of…?” she replies, ” what do you do?” replies the master of deception, ” I’m a hooker” she smiles ” People pay for my services, call me” and walks away laughing. Two masters of their own game collide, each moves on as survival has made them what they are today.

Comfort zones are those areas where we stop to relax and get comfy and forget to move on. Eventually we lose track of our original clever well detailed map in life, we stop and stall till we get rusty and attract like people into our lives. These new additions become the extra baggage you keep adding. They are known to relax, chillax or whatever you may call it until it becomes their destiny. Then there are the others.

When you love something you never feel the pains that others feel while doing the same thing, to you its passion, play if you may, to them it has another word, I think they call it ” work”.

What’s the big picture on survival of the fittest? on a macro level can we see countries that demonstrate hard ambitious survival lifestyles? the answer is yes! only if you simplify the answers without the statistics and economists of the world fiddling with a bunch of national GDP( Gross domestic product) and other economic indicators. Let me elaborate and simplify things here, lets take some man made products and trail them back to their makers.

Cars: Mercedes Benz, BMW, Toyota; Germany & Japan, Top notch engineering and the relentless pursuit of  perfection. When the stakes are high, when the determination and goals are continuous improvement, anticipating consumers next requirements, meeting them and modifying the flaws fast and without the blah blah, you get high survival measures and cultures that lead the world.

Technology: ipod, Google, Facebook; USA… I thought that technology lately came from the east? well it did for a while, then the marketing Gurus of the world today took the reigns of power and leadership, read into peoples natural habits and lazy needs and made it happen. Build it and they will come. Entrepreneurship is at its best in the last two decades, it is much easier and faster to get an idea to market and market to the masses today than the preceding decades, what do you think the creativity levels are in those areas?

A Man. A plan. A Dam- that was the business plan for the Suez canal by the way, that’s it, with 99% determination and dedication.

When I look at the roller coast ride we have in the Middle East on a survival and cultural viewpoint, I can tell you today who the pioneers of Survival fitness are, the number one nationality that has managed to succeed in every corner of the world is the Lebanese people. Why? a bunch of hard facts and internal lifestyle standards makes them my number one choice. They managed to outlive several wars, a scaring diverse populations with a bundle of ethnic backgrounds, a small country neighboring a war zone for the last 50 years or so, toughness in daily lives but they chose LIFE.

Mastering something takes 7 years of doing the same thing based on Brian Tracy, I truly agree with him on that note. What is it we do different than the world that makes us stand out? do we have what it takes or do we need a push for each step of the 1000 mile race?

Ask yourself these questions, or ask it to someone dear in your life;

• What if you woke up in the morning and found everything gone, can you start again?
• What if you were suddenly deported like some illegal immigrant to some undisclosed new location on this planet? can you start living? can you adapt?
• When was the last time you learnt something new?
• Who is your father figure?
• What’s your invisible carrot? do you have one?
• If asked what does your country stand for? do you have an answer? what is it that makes people want to visit your part of the world? when they leave what memories will they take back home?
• Is your culture driving you faster to your goals or taking you to the end of the line?

I am pissed at the levels we have reached in terms of evolving and changing, we are imitating and never innovating, we love the back comfortable back seat and never learned to drive, and if we drive we wouldn’t know what to do when we break down, let’s continue to import the pros, while the pros are defining our future down the road.

In the 80′s the young men and woman who finished college wanted desks for their first job, irrelevant of experience, to be the boss was all that mattered, that’s why you have an idiot for a boss today, the fundamentals of business were upside down, only to find out 20 years later that we need to start from ground zero and build the foundations then move on up.

Maybe I’m being harsh, but the truth of the matter hurts. When I say I can start from zero I better mean it, we can lose track and get back on track if we new our destination, are you not sick with clueless captains guiding organizations into Titanic waters?

Enough said. Just one thing before I leave, I salute the brave foreign bodies residing in some foreign country making a living, producing wonderful products and services, paving the way for future generations to come, making a better life for their families and indulging in their momentary comfort STOPS, the Zones take too long and make them weak and disillusioned.

p.s. find your survival degree and earn it.

mamdooh.alradadi late for Friday prayers!

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In a forever changing life and interlinked world we move from side to side, drifting like a log in the sea or ocean, with all that we still move by our choice. If you say left and are pushed to the right it was a choice you made, if you stay put and do nothing, its a choice, if you start to run in any direction its also counted as a choice.

Dreams, goals, wants and needs all push and pull you in directions. We tend to bend or mend what we do not want, but in the end its a choice you made. So if every step you make moves you in some direction, which is the right one? over and over people come up with ideas of how to reach a certain point in your life, a qualitative or quantitative requirement. Books and volumes have been written on these subjects.

So what do all these books have in common? two things from my point of view; A real need & a constant movement. Keep moving, don’t stop, know what you want, when you fall, get up and move, when you move and hit a wall, keep looking for a way to walk around it, jump over it, or climb it, even the great wall of china has an end you know, and the Berlin wall has long been taken to pieces.

In my search of what I want I seem to wander around more the older I get, I seem to question the why in the why’s and look at the answers from different perspectives, never knowing where my next big idea or answer will come from. How do I do this? here are a few things I seem to do more of every waking day;

• Ask children and listen in to what they talk about without them knowing I even exist.
• Smile to people who in turn might or might not smile back, so maybe, just maybe I get to share their wisdom on a random subject that might pull me closer to another idea that has been bugging me for so long.
• Listen to elder and younger generations with equal importance.
• Read anything that I come across, depending on its nature or my interest level on the subject.
• Drink coffee in various places across the world, choose what people say sucks, insist on my own intelligence, watch various movies with different topics that might seem silly to many, but in my world they rock.
• Remove the extra baggage I carry with me from time to time, people included.
• Follow my instincts. Believe in my self. Go back to basics every time I get lost in this fast changing world we live in by the second. Slow down.
• Enjoy the beauty of the world we live in. Examine and enjoy the various entertainment venues available worldwide. Join in tribal rituals, respect cultures and peoples ideas, share a crumb of bread with anyone.

In the end you end up thinking what and where some more, but the what’s and where’s you have after following what I do tend to be different and move you closer to what you love and what you seek, in the end its all about you, cause one day, your chapter will be buried and you won’t have a second chance to prove your ideas or thinking, make every thing you do count.

Every day is a chance. Do you take advantage or just say tomorrow will do? I tend to fall into that trap from time to time, many times. The secret is to not dwell on your spilt milk and leave it alone and move on. Do not listen to the negative vibes that surround you, people sometimes act like wet blankets on your back while you swim, how does that feel? what you would do is remove it and swim swifter and faster, let them clean that spilt milk and figure it out.

Reinvent yourself faster than the rest, change, move, rock and roll, jump out of the box, take different roads, seek more, look around you, look in places you never looked before, travel more, explore, identify your love and passions, you only have one life, if you don’t like it, diss it, if you love it get more of it.

Do you ever feel like you owe people an explanation or even a life? well you don’t, get over that feeling, when you raise to the top of whatever you want, you can serve them better, what is your use when your at the bottom of the pile? People make mistakes daily, actually sometimes by the hour, who cares, you make a mistake you learn, you don’t you stagnate! go ahead and make more mistakes, spoil yourself, imagine the possibilities without regrets?

Now excuse me while I go finish my coffee and have a cigarette break, yes I know they are bad for you! I promise I’ll quit soon, in the mean time let me figure it out with my slow brain, and you can go do something crazy like take that sky dive you always wanted, or propose, or dump him, or even make up with a long lost friend, just do it!

Your life, your choice!

mamdooh.alradadi

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I used to laugh at my dad when he was working, pointing out the fact that I would never end up a book worm like him, he simply laughed. He never forced, argued, stuffed into my mind the importance of reading, he had a plan.

He noticed how fascinated I was with two things; airplanes & cartoons. So he gave me more of the good stuff, more cartoons and more information on airplanes. On the first side, cartoons, he noticed I loved comics, so he made sure I get every copy of a certain weekly comic and on the other hand subscribed to a long forgotten magazine called airplane, I had every single issue for 7 years, and I should have been a pilot with all the aeronautical information I knew.

Living as a kid in the west in the late 70’s was OK for TV & other forms of communication, but in Saudi Arabia technology and communications were years behind. My early command of the english language was a wonderful head start in the right direction. I had hundreds of english publications in front of me, and suddenly non! all programs and tv shows were in english, and suddenly a few every week.

My father was wise enough to know that the seed was planted, long before the land( me in this case) even felt it. He knew that once you ride the literature world in any form or way, you are a prisoner forever. He only needed to maintain and irrigate the farm from time to time to make sure it was a good harvest.

That fine seed that came in the form of a comic called Battle( a world war 2 comic) was all it took to grow a whole forest, and that forest is connected to another forest, and somehow the forests connect with jungles and landscapes of never ending fountains of information and knowledge pouring on me till this day.

What I know now, is not what I knew then, or even yesterday, you have to make sure you grow daily, intake, keep the flows of information coming, do not block them, make way for ideas, creativity, different views, side views, birds eye view, macro, micro, opposite sex ideology, even different life form communication skills if ever there was a need.

Like a domino effect, things fall in perspective. My father told me many years ago,that sometimes a book will pay you back 100 times its cost in future earnings when he saw my book addiction, the way I shock book stores with my enormous pile of different subjects ranging from business to child psychology and the many communication and networking books. I managed to ease the crazy book shopping on my travels after a guy called Jeff bezos opened a little shop called Amazon, I know I’m big there cause I have a little title that spells Prime .

I still don’t know what I want? what I like? its all good in my view, all really good, to know, to understand, to listen, to examine, to be amazed by the planet that we live in and all the things it holds in it. Everything that man ever thought of and brought to life has a trail, I love to follow trails, sometimes its great to follow a trail that brings you back to where you already are, makes you wonder, is there a shorter path? keep looking, keep digging, keep reading.

My message is to all the young people out there, and this time all the older people out there too, plant the seeds, and take care of your harvest, you would only know the power of the internet today if you lived in the back then era!

I am proud and amazed at the young people of today. They bring light to this life with the level of understanding and broad spectrum they posses. The technology has brought to us today a whole new life form of intellects and we the elder should act accordingly and with responsibility.

Here are my 10 requests from anyone reading this:

1. Plant the seeds in your youngsters as early as possible and with love and care and a whole lot of understanding of their like and dislikes.
2. Look deeper into your surroundings, does it spell information or history, update your systems faster than you did 3 years ago. What you know today is totally obsolete in 2.5 years, keep learning in your area and outside it constantly.
3. Never force information in, let it take its natural form, by desire to learn.
4. Follow your heart and read what you want, when you want, as long as you want, set your own parameters and make sure that trespassers will be shot.
5. Take a broad view of things and how they relate, look outside your box, ask more questions, more and more people love it when you ask them, don’t take it from bullies, take it from the people who love to give.
6. Ask more questions, debate anything, do your homework and investigate before you ask, it will give you better answers and faster responses.
7. Do not waste time with the blabber mouths, the know it alls, the one way communicators, the “hear my story” every time people, the ones that just want to talk, you know the ones that start to answer before you finish the question kind,
8. Find your reading style, find your book preferences( do you like them small, big, spaced out and white?) find your best digestion time, carry books and magazines with you.
9. Manage your reading, cut newspaper & magazine articles and carry them with you, find out if you like it soft copy( on the computer) or hard copy?read opposite sex magazines, read outside your field, check out comics for instant stress relief, read fitness magazines, read beyond headlines in newspapers.
10. Take your reading seriously. In the end you will be judged by what comes out of your mouth when asked a question, you will be categorized wether you like it or not, you will be able to  express yourself clearer and win more communication battles with knowledge, you can relate things better, you can be more creative, you can manage change faster and easier, knowledge is power for the seekers.

Imagine all the peoples brains we walk in and out of daily? hope you enjoyed walking in my mind today, I did say no running around didn’t I? have a great day

mamdooh.alradadi

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