De fleste er vel skjønt enige om at mobbing ikke bør foregå, hverken på skoler, arbeidsplasser eller i det offentlige rom, for den saks skyld. Bloggeren Curly har startet prosjektet Mobbeboka, og den tilhørende “Den store mobbebloggen“. Flott tiltak! Kjell Magnes tilnærming var å lage et manifest mot mobbing, inkludert en god og relativt latterliggjort nullvisjon, og Jens har laget sin versjon.
Kicking a** v 2.0 – A draft manifesto
August 7th, 2009 § 0
I wrote a quick note some days ago, on general principles I try to help me guide through the redicolous mix of activities I enjoy calling my life.
Kick ass whatever I do – simple, and oh so difficult to stick to. But the fact is, most of us don’t even give our best efforts most of the time, and if you don’t know what I talking about – think again. Slacking off a little bit here and a little bit there is the common standard. Sad to say, I do it too. Will try to keep it at a minimum, though.
Work out regularly. I have a program for the next weeks, that I’ll try to stick to – basic cardio 3 times a week, and increasing efforts throughout, ending in Oslo Marathon September 27. I don’t have any hope of getting a good time – a finish will be a victory in my book. After that, I’ll try to mix in some strength. The idea, cut some fat before starting to build. For nutrition – just trying to stay fairly healthy.
Be an awsome person to relate to. I would describe myself as an extrovert introvert. I enjoy other people’s company, but the fact that I am writing up this post @ almost 2:00 AM says a lot. But I don’t want to fight that. I want to fight my urge not be as good with people as I want to be – be it colleagues both at work and in Red Cross, clients, friends, and random strangers – not to mention with my awsome girlfriend. I want to be even more trustworthy and easy to have relationships with – no matter what kind of relationship it is. There – I said it, now it’s just about following through.
Stop procastination and manage how I spend my time. I have a huge procatination problem at times. I keep a pretty up-to-date todolist and calendar. But I am not good enough at executing the things at it right away.
Control my finances – Money, good or evil, controls a lot of what we can do and not. It’s not enough to manage time-spending, of course, the money is as big of a part of the equation as time. (“If you got the money, I got the time…”). I don’t do too bad with this, but a reminder is always in order, as I – as the most of us – don’t have the luxery to be able to let this thing rest.
The last item on the list is, in my book, the all-reaching and most important one – one point to rule them all, you might say.
Knowing my goals, and making sure that each day I am working towards them. I don’t have any plans of going through life just doing whatever comes up. Keeping tabs of what I am spending my time on, vs what I ulitmately think of as my values in life is necessary. Of course, not all the time, but from time to time, it’s a good thing making sure that things don’t get missed for less important opportunities.
Valgkampslagord
August 4th, 2009 § 0
“Yes, we can!” oversatt til norsk blir tydeligvis “Troen på at det nytter“. Et godt slagord, etter min mening. Bedre enn enkelte andre boller.
Enten vi liker det eller ei, innpakkingen er en viktig del av politikk.
La valgkampen dreie seg om sak!
July 28th, 2009 § 0
SV har varslet at de nå skal lansere en “rapport” om høyresidens politikk, hvilken politikk som kommer til å bli ført de neste fire årene, om de borgerlige partiene vinner valget. Det er riktignok fair å vente til dokumentet blir sluppet før man dømmer det, men det kan sannsynligvis være lurt å utvise litt kildekritikk hvis man er en av velgerne som ikke har bestemt seg ennå, og bruker dette som bakgrunnsmateriale – ryktene vil ha det til at SV ikke er helt nøytrale. » Les resten av denne posten «
Norsk asylpolitikk
July 24th, 2009 § 0
Jeg besøkte den ypperlige utstillingen Venterom på Nobel Fredsprissenter for et par dager siden, og den fikk meg – som den skulle – til å tenke på hvordan Norge behandler asylsøkerne sine.
Slik jeg ser det må målet være å få unna asylprosessen så kjapt som mulig, enten søkeren har rett på opphold eller ikke. Det er en todelt utfordring; færrest mulig søkere som ikke har rett på opphold, og kortest mulig behandlingstid for de som søker. Det å få ut de som ikke får utviklet søknader er også en problemstilling i noen tilfeller. Det er åpenbart at de som får avslag skal ut fortest mulig, men jeg overlater dette til de som har den nødvendige kunnskapen om internasjonal rett. Da er det to problemstillinger igjen.
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Si nei til datalagringsdirektivet
July 20th, 2009 § 0
En mulig norsk implementering av Datalagringsdirektivet (direktiv 2006/24/EF), som pålegger tele- og nettselskap å lagre trafikkdata om borgernes elektroniske kommunikasjon (e-post, sms, telefon, internett) i inntil to år, vil nordmenns personvern bli krenket på det groveste.
Kicking a**
July 17th, 2009 § 0
This is as much a mental note, as a real blog post – I’ll need to write up something more thourough during the weekend to get the flow going. As many, I live what I like to think of as a good life, but with tons of potential for improving as well. Plan of attack:
- Kick ass whatever I do – being at my daytime job, volunteering at the Red Cross, running my company, working out or being with my girlfriend or friends.
- Work out regularly, and watch what I’m eating and drinking. I’m addicted to Coca Cola, and have been looking to kick that habit for years.
- Be an awsome person to relate to. Be honest, proactive and say what’s on my mind.
- Stop procastination and manage my time properly.
- Control my finances – stop spending money I don’t need to spend, and knowing when and how much I can afford to splurge.
- Knowing my goals, and making sure that each day I am working towards them.
Easy finance control
May 16th, 2009 § 0
Having financial problems – either in your business or in your personal life – isn’t much fun. It sucks out all your energy, and whatever you want to do after that you can’t afford. So, while it might not be a more fun alternative, having your finances under control is essential – and will without a doubt help you in the long run. I’m going to outline what I’m doing to stay on budget myself – this works both for personal finances and small businesses, but I’ll be taking the point of view of the former.
Budgeting
Don’t pretend you don’t need one. Sit down, and try to think of the areas where you spend your money. My categories are things as loan, food, entertainment and such – you get the picture. Remember to include a misc category – you’ll want to use this for all the things that don’t really fit in. Just make sure to keep track of these in some way – until you gain some more experience doing this, Misc might reveal the need for a separate category.
After you’re done, group these categories into regular expenditures, and variable. The clue – the regular ones are the ones you know are coming your way, that are easy to set aside money for. The variable ones are to a certain degree guesstimates. How much will I spend on food? Hmm… I’m guessing 300$. Might be more, might be less – don’t spend hours on that now. Tweak where you have some information, make some informed estimates, and move on.
Now, set this up for say – the next 12 months. Guess where you need to, and decide how much money you think you’re going to be spending in each category the next year.
Great – you’re done with your budget – for now!
Keeping score
A budget is useless without its sibling, the accounting. My way of doing this is to have a seperate worksheet where I have one column for each category. I have each category summarized. Whenever I buy something, I keep the receipt, and at the end of the day, I enter the sum of each of these receipts in the worksheet. I have a worksheet that’s an exact duplicate of my budget worksheet, except without the budgeted numbers. At the end of the month, I copy all the sums from my daily tracking into this accouting worksheet, and I got the right numbers for that month.
Comparison
Now enter the dreaded cousin of the two siblings: comparison analysis. This is an identical worksheet to the other two, except that this one is comparing the numbers in the two others. In other words, how much did you make last month in your day-job compared to what you expected, how much in your freelancing gig, how much spent on food compared to expected, and you’re getting the picture.
Now, you can adjust your budget for the coming month(s) if your intial estimates were way off. Or you can adjust your spending if you can see what you were afraid of – that you spent far too much clubbing than you should have done. (Sobering, eh?).
With this input from yourself, you should be able to better identify:
- Where you should focus cost-cutting if you need to do that
- How much you can put aside for savings each month without acting like you’re broke
- When you can afford to make that investment in a Harly Davidson motorbike that you have always dreamt of
- …
Writing this, I can’t help to think of an article I came across, describing how some of Norway’s largest companies, including the goverment-controlled oil company Statoil, were working around the normal budget process. This kind of thing comes with the manditory warning: Don’t do this at home, folks – these guys are pros! Without the experience, and business processes of such tremendous companies, this is like stealing your own opportunities – might seem like a good idea at the time, but you’re going to get caught, and it’s going to hurt. Seriously – don’t say I didn’t warn you.
A lot of the concepts in this post is hard to conceptualize without help. Therefore, you will find attached a open office document that will work as a starting point for your own budget. Shared with a Creative Commons license – for everybody’s eyes only 
. And yeah, I would love some feedback on this – input, questions, requests for improvement etc.
Get the Financial Worksheet.
Skole og utdanning
May 9th, 2009 § 0
Høyres landsmøte 2009 kjøres denne helgen – på grunn av familiesammenkomst får jeg desverre ikke vært med og blogget live, men det stopper meg ikke fra å kommentere på noe av det mest spennende som har skjedd det siste døgnet, i mine øyne: skolepolitikken.
Det siste døgnet har Høyre foreslått å fjerne rett til videregående utdanning, mulig nivåinndeling allerede fra første klasse, karakterer i barneskolen, og å verne russefeiring, for å nevne noe. Den siste saken bryr meg ikke så veldig, det blir i stor grad litt valgflesk til ferske velgere. Det er andre skolesaker som er viktigere.
Veier, tog, krig, fred & kjærlighet
April 19th, 2009 § 0
Norsk samferdselspolitikk sliter med en rekke utfordringer. Ikke bare har veiene våre blitt kåret til noen av de dårligste i Europa, men vi har også et komplisert nett av daler og fjell som skal dekkes av disse veiene. For å forstyrre arbeidet med oppgradere norske veier til toppstandard, har klimakrisen presset frem krav om høyhastighetsjernbaner både på Østlandet mellom Oslo og Trondheim, og lenger nord i landet. Og dette skal, som om dette ikke er nok, helst løses midt i finanskrisen.
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