Comments on: Hard Fun and Beautiful – Dragonflies Edition

By: Karl Staib - The Work Happy Guy

Karl Staib - The Work Happy Guy — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:42:49 +0000

Hi Nathalie, it’s amazing to notice how we are still fascinated by what intrigues us when we are young.

Hi brooklynchick, I love low humidity days. Living in Texas I need as many of them as I can get.

Hi Positively Present, I have a Mac and a PC and I enjoy both. Once you get by those glitches you should be just fine.

Hi Sue, I love your comments. They are always so in depth. I too have had countless problems with Google Talk and Skype. I’m glad you can just laugh about it. As for the big warm greeting. I was trying something new to see what people thought. Maybe my big greeting sets the tone for the rest of the video. I should try bringing it back to see what happens. Thanks for the input and concern.

Hi J.D., I know about bootstrapping. That’s what this website is all about. I think that’s where the best content comes from. Good luck and hope your project is successful.

Hi Gina, looks like you Mac is a good fit for you. I love hummingbirds. I bought a feeder, but still haven’t made the sugar water for them. Maybe next week.

By: nichole

nichole — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:50:37 +0000

Hard: Since I am the new kid on the block and have less of a work load than others, I am assisting on some of the problem files that others have not had the opportunity to do. Since I appear to be good at this and in resolving issues, I seem to be getting more of these. Downside for me it seems that it takes more time to do these files and gives less time for other files that deserve just as much attention.

Fun: Fun thing this week was meeting my best friend and her daughter for dinner to give her daughter her birthday present. It was great to find her daughter waiting outside for me. We made tacos and it was fun that now her daughter is 11 and mature enough to sit with us and have a pretty adult conversation.

Beautiful: The most beautiful thing was waking up this week and seeing sun every day (it has been very rainy this summer).

By: Lance

Lance — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:31:55 +0000

Karl,
Love the approach on this article. Hard, fun, and beautiful – all part of the journey.

Hard: An ongoing project we implemented in early summer continues to have minor things keep coming up – so it’s a challenge to sometimes get everyone’s buyin that this was a good move as a company – when internal problems come up, causing more unrest. The good in this is that the problems have been quickly solved, and we’re getting better at communicating changes out to everyone.

Fun: Our company just finished our best year – and really the last couple of weeks have been a bit of a celebration – culminating this week in an company wide meeting on a look back over the year, and where we go from here. (note: while that was fun, now we have the task of trying to maintain – especially as we tend to lag the normal market by a bit – as we come into a slower period for us).

Beautiful: Coming into work on several days this week – and seeing the fog lifting off the quiet lakes and streams along the ride in – enough to make me pull the car over for a few seconds and just observe nature at it’s best…

It’s great to be here today, Karl!

By: M

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:55:23 +0000

I’m all signed up for the e-course now. The videos are great. If your still trying to improve though, try adjusting the lighting. I’ve personally found that often makes a phenomenal difference.

By: Gina Fredenburgh

Gina Fredenburgh — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:26:18 +0000

Hard: Computer problems for me, too. Our main PC needs a major overhaul. Can’t tell you how many hours over the years that I have spent reloading, devirusing, troubleshooting, tweaking, etc., a variety of machines – all Windows-based. I was a pro-PC person for quite a while until this last PC meltdown. I’ve become a Mac convert.

Fun: New MacBook Pro – absolutely no problems. Entirely the opposite of my PC experience. It just works.

Beautiful: I opened the blinds and saw a hummingbird hovering right in front of me, enjoying some flowers hanging on my porch. It seemed like time stopped for a moment as I watched this little creature.

And, hey, Karl? Your videos do rock! I always look forward to a message from you. Keep it up, Work Happy Guy! You’re a gem!Gina

By: J.D. Meier

J.D. Meier — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:40:40 +0000

* Hard – Bootstrapping my project (the up front part is always tough.)
* Fun – 200 mile trip in the back country with the top down on my Jeep.
* Beautiful – Catching that quiet time in the morning just when yesterday stops, and today begins.

By: Sue

Sue — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:24:55 +0000

Hi Karl,

Dragonflies are such magical looking creatures with their iridescent wings! Metaphysically, they are associated with seeing through illusions, transformation, and allowing one’s own light to shine forth in a way that is true to them. Looks like they turned up at just right the moment for you!

Hard: Coming back into a rather challenging workplace after being away on vacation. At least the workplace challenges will be coming to an end in the near future. I also had some challenges with Google Talk, Skype and other communications technology this week in the process of trying to work on a collaborative editing project, so that was getting a bit frustrating. Actually the challenges got to the point of being ridiculous, so I gave up and just laughed about them.

Fun: Going to a Gujarati restaurant and eating a type of regional Indian cuisine that I don’t get to try very often. I’ve been inspired to see if I can more or less reproduce one of the dishes I tried at the restaurant. Also fun–doing a little more work on pairing up some of my best photographs with my best poems for a book that I’d like to publish.

Beautiful: My little Tulsi plants (Indian Holy Basil)that I started from seeds and that seem to be thriving,so far! (Wish I could say the same for my cardamon plant! ) Also some of the late summer/fall blooms that I’ve seen in people’s gardens and plant nurseries.

P.S. What happened to that great big warm welcome that you used to offer up at the beginning of your videos? I think it’s great that you’re sharing more of what you’re going through with your readers. I’ve also noticed that your newer videos seem a little bit lower key (maybe a little flat) in tone. Or maybe with a very busy life right now it’s just a bit of fatigue creeping in? Anyway, I hope all is well with you.

By: Positively Present

Positively Present — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:46:22 +0000

Hard: Just got a new Mac and it won’t work. Never had a Mac before and I’m NOT happy with it.

Fun: Going to see The Killers in concert with a bunch of friends and singing so loudly that my throat was scratchy the next day!

Beautiful: Some of the leaves that are starting to change into shades of yellow. Fall is coming!!

By: brooklynchick

brooklynchick — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:53:40 +0000

This week we;ve had sunny, warm, low-humidity weather. I’ve seen a great sunset, and incredible almost-full moon, my happy basil plants…all have been quite relaxing.

By: Claudia

Claudia — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:24:31 +0000

Hard: I had some computer problems myself. I’m testing some stuff on Worpress and it doesn’t look the way I want to. Since I have a life and come home late and I can’t access from the office, those technical issues will have to wait until the weekend. So be it.

Fun: I read a lot this week about writing and I have been putting together some articles that I love. Time to take this blogging thing more seriously for me

Then I keep enjoying my enology course… in French! Putting yoru mind in a different vision of the world surely takes your stress away, plus I get to taste some really good wines.

Beautiful: My cat. I can spend hours looking at her and marvelling at nature’s perfection.

Looking forward to watch your video from home… you know how some companies are