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Productivity and Art

Business Psychology 2 homework

Being productive is indeed an art – a personal interplay between though and action. It is an art to the extent that it is up to our personal preferences to concoct and interlock our actions, feelings and thoughts to produce or accomplish something in an effective and efficient manner. Being productive is unique to every person. Each person has his or her own way in being such.

Being productive has several fundamental norms which Judy Camp creatively extolled in her article. She made it a way that the word itself - “p-r-o-d-u-c-t-i-v-e”, becomes the acronym of these fundamentals. Judy Camp’s “Productive” pin-points certain areas in our lives that need to be improved and monitored for us to attain a higher degree of productivity. These range from our prioritizing skills up to personal enthusiasm on the task at hand adding that each letter of the word has its own domain. In a nutshell, the fundamentals can further be synthesized as the by-products of the following core concepts: self-awareness, ingenuity and personal care.

The self being the primary source of productivity should be mastered and understood. This is where self-awareness comes in. Being aware of myself makes me apart from myself thus making it easy for me to identify key enemies of productivity such as personal distractions and time wasters. With this “awareness tool” I can conquer those idiosyncrasies eliminating their negative influence in my work. Aside from identifying weaknesses, self awareness also sharpens my prioritizing skills. Prioritizing tasks is elemental in the art of being productive. It is knowing what to do now and what can be done later. Self awareness also calls us to be masters of our time. Knowing our high energy a point in a day gives us the advantage of using it to the maximum.

Ingenuity comes into play when we use simple technology. Tools that help us organize our tasks such as a checklist notebook or a planner is very useful. They keep us informed and reminded of progress and tasks. Creating my own system of prioritizing, monitoring and tackling tasks also boosts my productivity.

Last but not the least, is personal care. Personal care calls me not to punish myself by over tasking. It is about balancing my life with work and others. The care I give to myself must also extend to others. This results to healthy work relationships enhancing productivity.

Being productive is like painting. Through the mix of traits, preferences and priorities, a mental projection of the goals and tasks, and a brush of enthusiasm and care we can produce a masterpiece with artistic efficiency and effectively. AMDG

homework

What can I say about myself and how do I feel about it.

a psychology 2 homework

I first wish to inform the reader that the means in answering the 1^st question is quite difficult since I need the self to explain itself which is being self referential or circular. In order not to confuse myself in explaining myself, I wish to share through what I love to do and what my hopes are. My love-to-do-list ranges from spectrum to spectrum. Primarily, I love learning. I really do, because I know that it is through this that I can actualize myself. So I love to read a lot. I read books pertaining to human history, expressions, thoughts, ideas, aspirations and yes, also human suffering and decline.

you will also yawn.

Because of my bookish nature, I could consider myself a typical “truth seeker” always in a state of amazement and wonder. Now, this is what I get living my entire life in the very hub of a highly urbanized city. I don’t really get out a lot so I get stuck with voluminous collection of books at home and befriended them. Secondly, my “knowledge quest” fusing with my Jesuit education since nursery produced something “techno-colored” that urged me to animate that “amazement and wonder” into concrete action. My love for social/school involvements evolved from that notion earning me great friends, mentors and experience. Engagement is becoming a prime component of my life to the point that it has become my oxygen. My present affiliations with the KKP, AA and SBMSC manifest this “engaged love”. Thus, engagement with others and my love for growth in all sense simply encapsulates what I am presently - a person who embraces growth and strives to give it to others. With this in mind, I feel loved. I feel an elevated sense of purpose in life and also grateful of all the graces given urging me to do more. AMDG

thought book essay - 4

Merchants of Magis

(Inspired by the National Situationer activity in BOS by KKP-SIP XU-ADC)

In antiquity, the guilds of merchants are the movers and shakers of society just next to the town’s council and clergymen. This guild is blessed with just enough intelligence and possessions to muster their position in society’s triangle. The movement of products from the countryside to the town square and eventually to the town’s folk mediated in their hands. The humble beginnings of the middle class came from this pool of people. And the middle class then multiplied into the very bulk of today’s society. So with this simple logic, we can never deny the significant contribution of antiquity’s merchants in building society to its present structure. But behind this glorious façade lies scattered seeds of corruption that grew with the merchant’s greed. With the growing market of the town comes growing temptation to corrupt – the easy way of accumulating personal wealth in the expense of others. Some succumb to this seductive enterprise and soon, the town was engulfed into an air of despair, distrust and anger.

bah?!

Needless to say, the men of who brought goods to the people became the very enemy of the folk. Certain ideologies may call the people to-arms and revolt. They say revolution is the only way to fix society’s disproportioned triangle.

The air maybe ripe for a revolution, the stage maybe set for “glorious” leaders to rise from the abused bottom ready to fight the unjust with swords and guns but in the mind of the magna anima, the great soul – the only option and most effective is to combat this injustice without bloodshed through people who have the sharpened weapons to do it. Weapons not of steel or iron but weapons of the spirit. These are the weapons of love, hope, and faith animated by a blessed few. These men who understood it and relentlessly spreading it are the merchants of Magis. A revolutionary whose heart is engulfed with the flame of passion for excellence and compassion for others, a precious spirit of the guild gained only with the coinage of sacrifice, the relentless pursuit for the best, the willingness of lifelong growth, and the motivation to use those developed capabilities for others.

The merchants of magis are staging their own revolution in every corner where injustice lurks and it is through this “magis” that the seeds of love, hope and faith becomes real in the world.

Magis ka na ba?!

thought book essay - 3

Magnanimity Mechanism

I read an article entitled “Meditations on Magnanimity” of Ateneo de Manila’s “The Hill”, their community newsletter, and while reading it; my blurry abstract understanding of a fundamental Ignatian trait simply condenses into a humble crystal that may start a whirlwind of contemplation and action. Ladies and gentlemen, this is what I call the “Magnanimity Mechanism”. Magnanimity or generosity is the corner stone of our Jesuit education. Magnanimity or magna anima, which means great soul in Latin, is the very virtue that encapsulates Ignatian spirituality, the thing that marks us different from the rest – the search of the great soul inside of us. Being generous, what does it mean? How do we attain it? I am no Jesuit, so as the Consul but after reading several articles about this. I hope I could share a precise shot of it.

It is in self-awareness which leads to self-acceptance where the dynamic of formation begins. Two powerful words that have countless philosophical interpretations but are the simple end result of a rollercoaster ride called the Spiritual Exercises. As what Carmelo Caluag mentioned in the article, self acceptance results one to be more grateful for the blessings in one’s life and also for God’s compassion towards our shortcomings and sinfulness.

Gratitude, genuine and deeply rooted gratitude, always leads to humility, the acknowledgement that everything in life is grace, that everything in life is a gift. Being humble and grateful of the graces received results to a sense of freedom from self – knowing and understanding that we are not the center of the universe. With this in mind, one focuses this question, “what will I do in return?” Or in the words of Ignatius, “What more ought I do for Christ?”

The sense of mission then follows, the mission of doing something more, the mission of setting one’s life within the horizon of a dream larger than life (in the words of Fr. Arevalo,), the magis. This mission becomes the very driving force of our lives. Life is mission as what it’s called. One is then called to give the self totally to the work. The great soul dedicates his whole in his life mission.

As Ateneans, we live as this magna anima, the great soul. Never forgetting that what ever we do, we do it for God’s greater glory and we do it for others. And the giving is not only for the sake of giving but a deep rooted desire to extend God’s love to those who despair, to those who have seemed lost in the light of the Lord.

God loves you!