Wanjohi wa Kigogoine: When My Tree Failed Me Two Times

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Ain't Life a bitter Pill to swallow at times...LOL

You think your current job pisses you and you start looking for another and fortunately you get a call up for an interview and things are all rosy and you feel you just hit the jack pot with no sweat.
You resign and burn the bridges behind you(you call your MANAGER an ass...lmao).... after you start your new job(after a month or so) you realize it's a raw DEAL.... worse than what you had before.

AIN'T LIFE A BITCH AT TIMES?   BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

MY FRIENDS

I appreciate you all(my friends) wherever you are whether we have ever met or not....I appreciate you my Friend.

Friendship is there where ever you go
Friendship is there when you over dose
Friendship loves and Friendship cares
Friendship is life with a little dares

Friendship hurts when your not there
Friendship dies everywhere
Friendship is even the life you lost
Friendship is love with a little cost

DISEASE: STROKE (Stroke Risk Self Assessment Chart)

Instructions: Score each line and then add up your total score. The lower your score, the better. The higher your score, the greater your risk of having a stroke. An approximate guide to the risk is:

0 - 4 : Very low risk
5 - 9 : Moderate risk
10 - 13 : High risk
14+ : Very high risk

This is just a guide, but it demonstrates measures you can take to decrease your risk of stroke.

Risk Factors	0	1	2	3	Score
Smoking	never smoked	quit after smoking for less than 5 years	current smoker less than 20/day	current smoker more than 20/day
Exercise	1 hour strenuous activity at least 3 times per week	very active once or twice a week	moderately active once or twice a week	very little physical activity
Diabetes	none known	n/a	family history	diabetic
Blood Pressure	normal	mild high blood pressure	moderate high blood pressure	severe high blood pressure
Age	0 - 44	45 - 64	65 - 74	75 +
Alcohol (male)	0-4 standard drinks/week	up to 4 drinks/day	more than 4 drinks a day 2 or more days a week	more than 6 drinks, 4 or more days a week
Alcohol (female)	0-2 standard drinks a week	up to 2 drinks a day	more than two drinks a day, 2 or more days a week	more than 4 drinks, 4 or more days a week
Weight	about average for height	slightly overweight	moderately overweight	obese
Family History	no strokes known	a relative has had a stroke	a relative has had a stroke while younger than 65	several relatives have suffered from stroke
Cholesterol	below average	average	moderately raised	severely raised

Symptoms of Stroke

The symptoms of stroke usually come on suddenly.  The suddenness of onset distinguishes stroke from other conditions such as migraine or brain tumour.  Every patient is affected differently and the most common symptoms are:

• Sudden numbness or weakness of face, arm or leg, often one side of the body.
  • A lack of muscle strength in any group of muscles, most commonly those on the face, hand, arm and leg on one side (called hemiparesis). At least half of patients suffer some form of hemiparesis, some with a mild form that involves difficulty in controlling movement, rather than weakness.
  • A loss of sensation or feeling in any part of the body.  Numbness of the skin of the face, hand, arm, and leg on one side (hemiananaesthia) is most common.
    
• Sudden confusion, trouble speaking or understanding.
  • Difficulty in speech - slurring of speech (from weakening of face, mouth, throat muscles) may be accompanied by swallowing difficulty. There may be  difficulty understanding others’ speech, finding the right words, understanding written words or in writing (aphasia).
    
• Sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes.
  • Difficulty with vision - may take the form of total loss of vision in one eye, or loss of vision in half the visual field of each eye, or double vision.
    
• Sudden trouble walking, dizziness loss of balance or co-ordination.
  • Dizziness - injury to inner ear nerves may cause loss of balance, a spinning feeling, of the world moving (vertigo). May cause nausea, unsteadiness on the feet, a tendency to veer to one side or the other, or an unexplained fall.
    
• Sudden severe headache with no known cause.
  • Headache - stroke and TIA do not usually cause headache, but headache may result from stretching or irritation of the membrane covering the brain (meninges) or the blood vessels in the brain.
  • Subarachnoid haemorrhage may be preceded by the sudden (within seconds) onset of an extremely severe ‘thunderclap’ headache (the most intense the patient has ever felt), together with neck stiffness. Irritation from light may also be a problem.  After minutes to hours the headache spreads to the back of the head, neck and back as blood tracks down the spinal subarachnoid space. Subarachnoid hemorrhage may be associated with drowsiness or loss of consciousness and with other stroke symptoms.
    
• Less common symptoms include:
  • Nausea and vomiting- can be associated with vertigo or involvement of the ‘vomiting centre’ (the medulla) of the brain; common at the outset of subarachnoid haemorrhage.
  • Drowsiness or unconsciousness - also not common, but may occur, often briefly, depending on the location of the injury in the brain.
  • Epileptic seizures (10% of patients with subarachnoid haemorrhage).

Symptoms of Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA)

The symptoms of TIA are not easily distinguished from those of stroke, except that they do not last as long. They may include:

• Short term blindness, blurred vision, double vision, other visual disturbances
• Speech disturbance – often an inability to put thoughts into words, or the substitution of a similar word for another of different meaning (‘I bent on the ball’ for ‘I leant on the wall’), or slurring of speech
• Vertigo – a spinning sensation – usually in conjunction with other symptoms
• Facial numbness or weakness
• Swallowing difficulty
• Arm or leg weakness or paralysis
• Loss of balance
• Nausea and vomiting

A TIA is significant and must not be ignored.  Advice must be sought immediately.
A TIA may be the start of a stroke that can follow the TIA within hours.
A TIA can warn of a future stroke and rapid investigation and treatment can reduce the risk of having a stroke.
If the symptoms disappear quickly, a TIA may be diagnosed and the patient discharged with appropriate instructions for medical follow-up, investigation and treatment to minimise the risk of recurrence.
If the symptoms persist, tests to determine the nature, precise location and extent of the injury to the brain will be started. These are likely to  include Brain scans (Computer Tomography) and MRIs (Magnetic Resonance Imaging).
Treatment to may be started to  rescue damaged brain tissue, to prevent complications such as difficulty swallowing, and to minimise the chance of  further strokes.

 

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Ways to Be Happy Within Yourself...

1. Forgive yourself

Forgive yourself for thinking negatively. Forgive yourself for talking, without thinking twice. Forgive yourself for being rude to your superior, your friend, your parents, or your siblings. Don’t think negative thoughts about yourself for taking wrong steps or making wrong decisions. This kind of thinking puts your focus on the problem and not the solution. It’s better to say good things about yourself than to say negative things. Always saying positive things about yourself is a sign that you have forgiven yourself.

2. Forgive others

If we want to make peace with others, we first need to be at peace with ourselves. Learn to forgive and forget and let go of things quickly. It is not good to resent and hold grudges. People who hold grudges and resent their past incidents often suffer from cardiac and psychological problems. The easiest way to forgive others is to assume that they didn’t offend us in the first place. If you weren’t offended, you wouldn’t have the course to be offended or to forgive others.

3. Stop thinking and talking about your problems

Instead, focus on the good in every situation you face and every person you are in a relationship with – including yourself.

4. Focus on being a blessing to others

Get your mind off yourself and focus on blessing others instead. When you bless others, the blessings will come back to you; it’s a wonderful phenomenon many don’t understand. After all, life is not all about receiving; it’s more of giving.

5. Be busy

The busier you are, the less time you have to think, especially, about something or someone who left you with negative feelings. Being busy is the best way to keep negative thoughts from provoking you repeatedly.

6. Recount the things you have achieved

Take some personal time to be with myself and recount the things you have achieved and the things you have. Counting one’s blessings and achievements makes one feel fulfilled and happy. We often hate ourselves when we feel we have not achieved anything. The best way to count your blessings is to write down whatever you have achieved. No matter what happens in our lives, we have life, air to breathe, food to eat, some friends, family and associates, a measure of wealth and a measure of health.

7. Develop a pastime

Spend your free time on reading, listening to music, watching movies or other activities. This enables you to put your mind off the problems you are facing and the thoughts you have about yourself.

8. Be content with WHO you are

Don’t focus on things about yourself that you have no control over. Don’t strive to be like someone else. Don’t care about what other people think or say about you, when you’re not even sure whether they are right or wrong. When you do this, you relieve yourself of a lot of stress and anxiety. Be content with yourself, while you hope for a better you.

9. Never lose hope

There’s always a light at the end of the tunnel. Hope is something you can never afford to lose. With hope you always have a path towards happiness. Hope reminds you that everything will be ok. With hope, you know that whatever looks terrible is only temporary and that soon enough, things will be just fine.

10 ways to deal with a bad boss

1: Avoid responding in kind

If your boss acts like a jerk, becomes abusive, or is freaking out, your initial impulse might be to do the same thing. Fight that temptation, hard though it might be. Repaying “evil for evil” accomplishes nothing and only makes the situation worse. If you maintain your professionalism, it will make a positive impression on those who are watching or those who hear about it — including possibly your boss’s boss. Here’s an extreme example, but one based on a true incident. Suppose you’ve just sat down at a restaurant with your boss, and the latter becomes agitated that there are no menus. Rather than get agitated yourself, perhaps because the boss is blaming you for the lack of menus, try to stay calm and simply say, “Boss, the menus are on the way.” Repeat as often as necessary.

2: Document your work

Keep track of your accomplishments and of compliments you get from co-workers or managers of other departments. Record the date of these incidents. When documenting these items, try to record as well the significance of the accomplishment. What problem existed at the time? What would have happened had you not acted? How did your action have a positive effect on the entire organization? Keep this information on a system other than your work computer or company network - that is, keep it in a place where you can still access it even if you leave or are terminated.

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3: Use objective measures

When documenting your accomplishments, try to use objective measurements. If you’re on a help desk, for example, “I resolved that ticket promptly” is a meaningless statement. However, “I resolved that ticket in three hours, compared to the departmental average of five hours,” carries more credibility. If you’re in a call center, similarly, a statement that “I answered 80% of my calls within the second ring” is preferable to “I answered my calls promptly.”

4: Confront with evidence

It’s easy for a boss to yell at you based on statements you yourself make. It’s harder if you confront the boss with detailed data, in particular data that has objective measures. So when your boss complains that you’re not answering calls promptly, share your data. In doing so, you’re telling the boss implicitly (or, if you’re brave enough) explicitly, “Boss, you can be angry all you want, but the data favors my position.”

5: Be clear about performance measurements

The objective measurements are also important when you are setting your performance measurements. Having subjective standards makes it easier for your boss to rate you poorly. Having objective standards, assuming you’re doing your job and meeting them, makes it harder for the boss to do so.

6: Keep your network active

Maintain your connections with other people in your company, or even outside your company. Stay active with alumni from your school or college. Be active in community affairs. Doing so keeps you visible and can help you find another job in the event you decide you need to or you’re forced to part ways with your boss.

7: Don’t burn bridges

If you do part ways with your boss, you might be tempted to “unload,” given that you have nothing left to lose. Fight that temptation and try to be gracious. Did you learn anything at all of value from the boss? In particular, was there a time when you thought the boss was wrong, but it turned out the boss was right? Say so. Though not impossible, it would be really hard for even a bad boss to react negatively to such statements by you. Being gracious will make a huge impression on others. Besides, you never know if you might run into that boss again later in your career.

8: Learn from the experience

A corollary to Murphy’s Law tells us that “Nothing is ever a waste of time. It can always serve as a bad example.” In your case, take some time to analyze why your boss is a bad boss. Just keep in mind that people have different perspectives. Your boss might be reacting to factors and influences you might be unaware of. While that fact doesn’t excuse bad behavior, it can explain it. In any event, doing such analysis can help you if you later become a boss, because you’ll have figured out what NOT to do.

9: Use humor to cope

Humor is a great way to deal with unpleasant situations — hence the need, in movies and television, for comic relief following a tense scene. Rather than be upset about a past encounter, try laughing about it. You could even take it one step further. For example, you could predict what area the boss will first be upset about tomorrow or what time the boss will first become upset that day, then comparing your prediction with what actually happens. While it could be politically risky, you could even start an office pool with co-workers who have the same difficulties - such as establishing an over-and-under on the number of times the boss blows up.

10: Be careful when talking to the boss’s boss

Do not slander a servant to his master, or he will curse you, and you will pay for it. You may have a chance for a one-on-one meeting with your boss’s superior. If so, that person might ask about your boss. Be careful what you say. Be aware, in particular, that criticism of your boss could be taken as criticism of your boss’s boss and could cause you even more problems. Remember the old saying, “Don’t criticize your wife’s judgment. Look who she married.”
If you do choose to say anything at all about your boss, focus on the behavior rather than the person. Rather than say, “[Boss] is really disorganized,” it’s probably better, if you say anything at all, to say, “It’s hard to focus when priorities keep changing.” But a far safer alternative is to encourage any desirable behavior from your boss. For example, you could say, “Boss’s practice of doing [x] really helps us. I hope he/she keeps doing that.”