Rosie Reflecting

  Photo by Yan Krukov (Pexels)                 Do you need others to have a good time? To enjoy work? Or can you decide for yourself?   In my last post ‘Living the Dream’ (or How does a person react to change?) I wrote about how our language and behaviours are indicators of how often we may well change our behaviour, in a given context [1] . This all led on from a conversation I had with a friend.   The theory or fact is that our language and behaviours give away huge clues (to those who are aware of this fact), clues on how we will behave and what we will say in a particular situation.    However, we are all complex individuals and it isn’t just the language and behaviours indicators around the Decision Factors [2] , which shows are they motivated to change through searching for ‘difference’ or ‘sameness’. Being complex human beings other factors come into play and we may change or appear to change as we progress in our living abroad (or anywhere else or in any other contex

  I’m having a Facebook free weekend, so far I’ve managed nine (9) hours and counting.   I used to have an iPhone. I don’t now for several reasons that are not relevant here. On that phone I could see how much time I had spent on screen and what I had been doing, Scary on the one hand and a little salutary on the other.   There might well be a setting on my Android but I haven’t looked for it.   Anyway this is about this particular weekend it’s the third weekend in February 2021 and we are still in Turkey, therefore it’s a lockdown weekend. That should mean the whole country of Turkey that’s nearing 85 million people should be staying at home. With the exception of those who need to work which in a rural area such as where we are has different interpretations. Hey ho. It is possible to have food and meals delivered and on Saturdays delivery companies are still providing you with the online orders you placed earlier in the week.   Due to the weekend lockdowns that have bee

    Are you?    Does everyone else seem to be? Are you waiting for the best option to come along? Or waiting for a better option?   Every day we are bombarded with the ‘must haves’, the ‘buy now’ (as well as the ‘unique’, the ‘new’, the ‘different’ – that’s another story).   And in these current times when a lot of what the media gives us is about doom and gloom, what do we focus on?     Some people become very inward looking and only use their own judgment, or they base this judgment on information they have gleaned from different sources when faced with uncertainty and then they start to decide for themselves.   They may take on outside information and process that information and then store it somewhere in their memory banks.   Ultimately they make their own decision and sometimes they make that decision only based on noticing what is wrong or can’t be done in respect of whatever it is you would like them to do.   Now this might be to buy something, book on a meeting, or