What Makes The Crucial Difference In My Kitchen

July 17, 2010 by admin
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Some of us never seem to have time to catch our breadth. What with continual work pressure and then home rushing about. It’s difficult at the best of times to find time for everything. And then some free time too.

I’m lucky. I really like my job. OK, I’d like if it would slow down every now an then. But then it wouldn’t be the same job. And maybe I’d get bored. I think behind it all, I’m fuelled by pressure.

I read somewhere that the secret to a stress-free life, no matter how busy a person is, is to make sure they surround themselves with a network of support. This does not just mean people who can assist you. But things that can make life easier too. My grandmother didn’t have many people to assist her. Her secret she said was her gadgets. One in particular was her knife block set. ‘A lifesaver’, she frequently said.

It’s like in my office. The chaos is managed and overall things are strangely efficient. The tools we all use there are themselves the height of efficiency. They do the job exactly as they are supposed to. Like the kitchen knife set back home, my office computer is as sharp as a Harvard graduate. It never gets tired. It never complains and it rarely gets sick. And I treat it like the treasure it is.

Apart from my phone there is a long list of other ‘life-savers’ related to my work. My computer has to be near top of the list. Reliable, intelligent, focused, and cool looking. And we both share a close friend. Like me, it has a special relationship with my cell phone. They both call it synchronisation. But I think there’s more going on between those two than either is willing to admit.

And there my phone. Understands me better than any human. That’s a ‘fit for purpose’ little guy. It is voice activated – and it really works. It actually understands every name I call out. I’d be lost without it.

It’s the equivalent for me of my grandmother’s henckels knife set. Without it she would have found her life a lot less productive and probably a lot more stressful. On the very rare occasion that my laptop was being repaired or upgraded, I felt like a boxer with my hands tied behind my back. Powerless, vulnerable and half naked.

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