The toilet roll

How often is it that you walk into a public toilet or a toilet in your own home or a friends home where you get to the loo and the brown board is on the loo roll and no one has bothered to change it!What baffles me even more if that this happens in our own homes and family or friends homes where the toilet rolls are usually in arms reach in the cupboard there in the bathroom??Why do people generally leave it for the next person to change?Are people lazy?Is it beneath them?Are people too in a hurry to do other things in life VS a few seconds to change a toilet roll?I have never understood this?In a public toilet is it not strange how people feel it takes too much time to push the lever in the holder to drop the next roll?What do you think?I think that laziness plays a big part here!

Human behaviour mind boggling I tell you

I love sitting and watching human behavioral patterns. It is so fascinating.
On a daily basis we work with our immediate team and others within the building that our sales team is based.
Every morning when my immediate team arrive we all greet each other and ask about the morning so far or how their evening was etc however it baffles me that other team members that arrive who share the same floor with us literally a meter away from our desks do not greet on arrival and hours can go by until you interact over picking up something at the printer and they start engaging in conversation with you for the first time for that day as if we had chatted earlier and there is no acknowledgement that this is the first interaction for the day. Some others come into the office and start chatting about work without a "Hello" and they go on as if they have seen you several times for the day. Do people just take each other for granted that they will be there on a daily basis and there is no need for greeting??Hang on.....I feel the same when collegues sitting within meters of you get up and leave for the day without saying goodbye. Initially I use to find this outright rude and then I realised that they are "sleep walkers."They are just not in tune with the moment and are already thinking of a million other things instead of being in tune with their colleagues and surroundings.
I actually pointed it out to a colleague the other day that I greet him every day and that sometimes at 1pm in the afternoon we will have our first bit of banter for the first time even though we can see each other from where we sit. He greeted me first for the first time the other morning and we had a good chuckle however nothing has changed.
We also attend management meetings where we interact with other managers that we hardly see in days and when everyone arrives in the boardroom people just sit down and don't greet?????
Human behavior-mind boggling I tell you!!!!!

Its all about "experiences" this year

"Experiences" is one of my buzz words for this year.At the end of the day as mentioned on a previous posting I think I mentioned that "experiences" one can never take away from you however material things can be.When its your time to rest you cant take these material things with you. I am not saying I dont enjoy certain material things-we all do.These things add to the joy in ones life and may ignite an experience however dont focus on things that wont add value.Today I am heading off to "The Strandloper" (www.strandloper.com)to fulfill an experience that both my mum and I have wanted to explore for many years now. I figured a spur of the moment days leave to fulfill this for my mum before she leaves will be priceless. We have a beautiful 27 degrees in the mother city and we going to hit the west coast soon.....Cant wait...Talking about experiences I was most touched yesterday to have been copied in on an e-mail from a long staying guest to our MD where he oozed with beautiful words about the hotel and mentioned that he does not like to single out staff members however wanted to thank me for a few things that made a difference to their experience. Not only did they put a big smile on my face but they really warmed my heart to see another happy guest leave with an amazing experience. I went to see them and thank them for the touching words and spent some time with them while they had their cherry on the top to end of their stay....the indulgent afternoon tea. What a great elderly couple....we exchanged a few words and shared many laughs and banter about our lifes experiences. There really is something oh so special about spending time with the elderly. I wish you a day full of great joy and experiences too.....

A shift in mindset

This past few weeks have been full of such pleasant moments with family,friends and strangers. I am loving this "new Sue" who is open to conversation with total strangers. I cannot believe I have lived in a bubble where I have given off this "Dont talk to me" signals. You cant blame me with applying this to guys as in Durbs I think I came across many forward or as the Capetonians say "volbaarig" guys.
Even swimming in the pool the other day-I got to the lane and from the other end this dude starts waving at me signaling it is ok to join his lane. I felt like I knew him at the way he was so comfortably waving out to me a complete stranger. LOL
I also realised recently that I have now acquired a skill to listen to someone moan without taking their negatives vibes onto me and I am able to remain fairly numb to the situation however give guidance and walk away not carrying their load. Oh oh oh and something else I discovered that I am able to do is when I find myself in a situation where I don't really feel like doing something I tap into my thoughts and my mind talk and in a matter of seconds I can lift my thoughts and its as if this visor lifts and I see the situation differently. I am just loving all these new realisations-the mind sure is a powerful thing.