This is how I live my life..

I woke up every morning at around 5:30am to 6:00am. After stretching a bit of my body, got up on bed then go to the bathroom to pee and wash my face. I then go to the kitchen for some hot coffee or boiled tee or herbs, while drinking, waiting for customer –my neighborhood with small eatery, who comes every morning w/ coconut fruit for grating. I happened to have a coconut grater which my father built a couple of years ago, w/ a motor out of old washing machine and wooden braces fabricated to make an improvised coconut grater. After grating the coconut and get paid and give back to them for cooking. Then I will take my breakfast and take a bath and get ready for work.

 A sample of coconut grater

Usually from 7:00am to 7:15am I must leave and take the road or else I’ll be late for work in cases where my motorcycle, a Susuki Shogun 125, got flat tire on the way and taking it into a vulcanizing shop takes a lot a time like 15 to 20 minutes before my tire get fixed. I always arrive at work early to have enough time to prepare for my daily task.

Office work is from 8:00am to 12:00am, break time 12:00nn to 1:00pm, then 1:00pm to 5:00pm for afternoon work hours, with 15mins coffee break on morning and afternoon schedule. My work includes the safekeeping and maintaining the tools and equipment used by our maintenance workers. At the start of day is the releasing of materials and tools to be used in different works for maintaining the facilities of our company. There’s also computer works and paper works I usually do for reports and monitoring of stocks and supplies. During idle times, I go to the stockrooms to arrange and organize those newly purchased materials and put them into the right place for me to easily locate them in times they are needed and to monitor their inventory levels easily.

Every day, weeks, months, and so on and so forth, you do the same task, same routine, daily. Everyone is some kind of boring in this daily life. So what’s the best thing to do during your day offs and holidays? Have time for yourself, your family! Try some of these suggestions I think will make your life more different and healthy:

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1.       Take a vacation

Get the advantage of having holidays because it’s the best time to take your loved ones to some place far from your vicinity. These will make your mind free from your work. On the way there, you and your family members will talk about each others status in life, problems (well, its normal that everyone has a problem), success stories and some things you wouldn’t think you

will know. Surprised? Well, life really is full of surprises.. mind that.

2.       Make a bonding moment

Daily when you got home, everybody has its own world, has its own life inside the house. Your wife’s in the kitchen doing some chores, your tots playing outside, and your teens with their gadgets you can barely talk to them because of their headset on while talking, chatting with somebody else. Thanks to your dog who barked and hugged at you as you opened the gate getting in. Why don't you try talking to them while having your dinner, watch TV or movies together with popcorn and some soda. Go to church during Sundays and take a stroll in the park after worship. Try cracking some jokes, or make magic tricks to your children. These will make them think and broaden their minds and they will love mind boggling puzzles.

3.       Treat yourself

On the way home you see ads in the billboard alongside of the roads and buildings. Your favorite basketball player wearing a nice looking basketball shoes. Did you get the idea? Sometimes you have to treat yourself, buy a pair of shoes (don’t bother about the one on the ads, I assure you, it’s very expensive, buy only what suits your budget), or jeans, or shirt, or buy some food and eat alone on park bench or breakwater on sea shores.

4.       Get physical

Challenge yourself and try different things you do not normally do, or things you really don’t do or hate to do. If you barely go out and stay indoors watching soccer or basketball, why not try playing the actual basketball? Or boxing? Or running? If you’re a rockstar and you love loud and extreme underground sound, try playing flute or violin or melodica. You love action and sci-fi movies, try drama and comedy, or suspense thriller. If you’re a book reader and you love novels of Tom Clancy and JK Rowling, try reading a bible.

Working is part of our life, and whether we like it or not, for me, it’s not a choice. It is needed by everyone to have their careers in life more progressive. I myself have a lot of working experience in different companies and I see to myself whether I should stay or should I go. The more you are happy in your work, the more productive and effective you are to the company, and that’s where you get more rewards and recognition, where it boosts you up and makes you a better person.