“You should be feeling 100% better…” Yes, thats what my doctor said today. If you’ve been following my continuing health saga like my parents have (hi mom and dad), you would know that my doctor is not one for pleasant banter. When I first went to visit my doctor, I received a pretty bad tongue lashing. But after getting put on the right medicine, my doctor has been singing a different tune.
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I’m currently sitting at the Miami International Airport waiting for my son to arrive from Indiana. He was scheduled to arrive at 6:17pm but its 7:30pm and i am still sitting at the gate waiting for his plane to arrive.
So, what do I do? I blog about it using my cellphone!
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So, you’ve gotten laid off… Hopefully you’ve taken the steps I already outlined in my previous two posts about this topic. As the conclusion of this series, I’ll give you all some advice on what to do after a layoff.
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I’ve seen people laid off en-masse by calling everyone into a conference room and having security escort them all out the door, and I’ve seen it done on an individual basis. In the end, there is no good way of laying off employees. During a layoff, people will react in different ways, some are sad, some angry, some will even react destructively. But what is the best way to act? What should you do?
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You all might remember my last post about my health : Sometimes an Apple a day, just doesn’t cut it… That was following my last visit to the doctor, where I found out that well… I wasn’t very healthy. The biggest things were my thyroid level (>.5), my weight (256), my cholesteral (334), and my blood pressure (160/100).
After 3 weeks of taking Synthroid (for my thyroid) and Diovan (for my blood pressure), plus eating fairly healthy, I was happy to find out that my thyroid level is now within normal ranges (10.5), and my blood pressure was reduced to a respectable level (130/80). My cholesterol was reduced to the 230s (sorry, I didn’t write down the exact number)… and best of all, I was down to 245 pounds.
Thats a signficant change from where I was last time I went to the doctors. Suffice it to say, I was in a pretty good mood leaving the doctor’s office today.
Now I just need to keep it up. Wish me luck!
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Over the years, I’ve seen my share of layoffs. I’ve seen co-workers get escorted off the premises, and I’ve seen people given a 2 weeks notice. Either way, it always comes as a shock. Most people I know NEED their paychecks. And when that is cut-off, people react in a bunch of different ways.
You get a few people that are just absolutely stunned, they believe that they don’t deserve to be laid off, and that there are others that were somehow more deserving of a termination. There are others that look at it as “heck, I was unhappy anyway… good riddance.” And then there are even others that look at it like its an opportunity to make a change in their lives.
I originally started this series of posts thinking about how you can prepare yourself for a layoff. But what I ended up writing about was a more of a set of tips for dealing with the entire layoff process, from preparing yourself before the layoff to dealing with things after the layoff.
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