Christine Wilson - Latest Comments

Re: Is your support network supportive?

Christine Wilson — Thu, 06 May 2010 11:35:08 -0000

I agree Ricardo. It's very important to surround yourself with positive people who are aware and take more responsibility for themselves and others. And then emulate these people yourself of course. Everything is a give and take.

Re: Is your support network supportive?

Ricardo Bueno — Thu, 06 May 2010 05:08:30 -0000

There's a saying that goes: "You are the company you keep."

I find this to be completely true. If you surround yourself with negative people, that negativity will start to wear on you and bring you down. If on the other hand you surround yourself with positive people, it has a motivating/inspiring impact on you.

Re: Managing your lifestyle vs. someone managing it for you

Christine Wilson — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:56:12 -0000

Well Josh I can't tell you where I got the picture from but you look very hot in that skirt. Skirts suit you!

That true and I guess that's the secret. It's the fact that a person can't feel what the other person feels that makes independence of thought and action an important factor. Thanks for your thoughts.

Re: Managing your lifestyle vs. someone managing it for you

joshhanagarne — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:45:45 -0000

Hey Christine, where'd you get that picture of me in my tennis skirt? On another note, I couldn't agree more with you. If someone else does everything (or too much) for you, someone else is making your decisions. You will never be as important or immediate to anyone else as you are to yourself, whether we admit it or not. It's impossible. Why let someone else steer when they can't feel what we each feel?

Re: Hitting goals or hitting your head?

Christine Wilson — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:54:47 -0000

Thanks for your comment Ricardo! Yes our approaches are similar, but not exact. Seems like I wasn't clear. I do follow what the competition does but try to do it better. What constitutes as better for me is doing it slightly differently. Instead of creating another burger fast food joint, why not create an Indian fast food joint? No one has done it and therefore you get a competitive advantage right away. Obviously this has the drawback that your idea could flop. But by experimenting with different ways of doing things, you could create your own market and have a specialty no one else does.

Re: Hitting goals or hitting your head?

Ricardo Bueno — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:05:52 -0000

Re: "Instead of focusing on “I need to be better.” I say to myself “What do I love that they do? Can I use their technique in a different way?” Instead of focusing on becoming better than the person, I focus on using new techniques from different sources in new ways to differientate and better myself."

I like your approach here. Personally, I've learned to ignore what the competition is doing (well that's not entirely true, I'm still watchful, I just don't let things bother more nor do I use what they're doing as a metric against my own goals if that makes sense).

I find ways to do what the competition is doing, but better. Much like the approach you take (I think).

Re: Planning before execution

duplex25 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:27:31 -0000

Planning indeed can be hard but it is a necessary part of starting any kind of project, whether it be a business, a new routine or a new life style.
This post reminded me that in the past I have dove right in without planning and I have ended up making a mess of things making me run back to the drawing board to make the necessary adjustments, but ended up wasting a lot of time in doing so. If I had planned to begin with I would have gotten better results with less effort and saved myself quite a few frustrating & at times embarrassing moments.

So I fully agree with you Christine on this one. We all tend to learn this lesson the hard way.

Re: A schedule is a very important thing

duplex25 — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:38:17 -0000

Well I tried doing both in my life and always found out that focusing on one thing at a time did yield better results. I found that doing a little here and there throughout the day without focusing on one thing always led to chaos as I would forget half of it once I got back to that particular task and waste time back tracing. Having schedule for everything really makes a difference in life as much as I hate to admit it.

Re: The snobbery of knowledge

duplex25 — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:57:27 -0000

Now this is one article I enjoyed reading. Everybody having access to information and higher education. This world can be a much better place because the world will advance far more faster in every aspect possible when more people are educated & can contribute their intelligence and talents.

Re: It’s the everyday effort

duplex25 — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:47:15 -0000

When I read this blog it made me think about myself how I make excuses to exercise in the morning & it made me realize that I should strife harder everyday to get up to my alarm so I can keep things consistent. That's how one gets results - Stop the excuses!!!

Nice Work - This blog helped really helped.

Re: Talk about the difficult things first

Christine Wilson — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:29:43 -0000

Yes and although I used a spouse as an example, this extends to all relationships in life. Compromising for the sake of compromising doesn't work over the long term. Will you brush it off when you never achieve any of the goals in your life? Are the compromises then worth it? To me the answer is no.

Re: Talk about the difficult things first

duplex25 — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:52:52 -0000

I love this article!!! You are right about asking the hard questions first so that you have a chance to be with somebody that really suits you without having to settle down for just anybody for the sake of settling down.

Re: Finding time in a busy modern world

duplex25 — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:07:52 -0000

Nice Work Christine!!!

I agree with what you have said about new technologies. To me it was a well balanced article!!!

Re: Adaptability

Christine Wilson — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:18:03 -0000

Thanks Roberto. There is a strong tendency to follow the norms and rules put in place, without much regard to whether they work under the current situations.

Re: Adaptability

Roberto, Austin-TX — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:58:05 -0000

Nice article, I totally agree that adaptability is a "competitive" advantage that make people stand out of the crowd. Unfortunately it seems that our society is more interested in creating more robot-like people rather than dancers.

Re: It’s just a trend.

Christine Wilson — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:53:16 -0000

Thanks for the post. The theme I'm using is called Amazing Grace 3.0 by Vladimir Prelovac.

Re: It’s just a trend.

forex account — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:00:15 -0000

Awsome content, what template do you use in your blog ?

Re: It’s just a trend.

Christine Wilson — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:55:29 -0000

I have overheard people criticizing social media and then found they aren't using social media networks, just like you mentioned! I agree with your definition of trending. I think if you can check it out and see how and why people are doing what they are doing without jumping to conclusions, trends could give a person a lot of information. Like what direction an industry or technology is going in, how it impacts people's way of life, interests, etc.

Thanks for the feedback Hicham!

Re: It’s just a trend.

Hicham — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:29:57 -0000

This is interesting, Christine! I think trending simply means new stuff are found in the air and we are called to check at first. I am wondering about many people who just attack the social media that you mentioned without even bothering themselves to use before; something very close to the atttiude you mentioned about your father's school!

Re: You have to go to the health food store for that.

Chris — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:20:59 -0000

Companies like to fill foods with cheap ingredients to save money. Sugar and salt are cheap. If Company X adds one more tablespoon of sugar to each can of soup this saves .001 cents/month. If Company X sells one million cans of soup a month, this saves the company $1000/month which translates to $24,000/year. It is a shame that our food industry has such low standards when it comes to the quality of food they sell. Instead they focus on profits. :(