Blog: Michael Serna

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Current State of Mind

Today I'm feelin' a bit under the weather leaving me to drop many things today. Thus having time to make a post today. The new year has started out okay for me and with natural disasters going on in Haiti as the focal attention of today's current events. 

After focusing so much in the business and project management world last year, I've caught myself being pulled back in to much of the web world once again. A couple of enhancements such as jQuery and CSS has me brain twisted and surprised to see how much my job is getting me involved. Slowly and surely I am going back to becoming a full-time web developer it seems and it isn't what I totally want to do. That's the state of my job right now. It has pulled me out of what I want to be as a PMP (Project Management Professional). It's pulled me out of studying and advancing more into this great need and I'm always wondering if I'll get back into it. 

Another thing that didn't quite catch my attention was this year's CES event. So much gadgetry there including upcoming 3D televisions. This isn't all eye-popping to me as I find this to be an excuse of companies selling something "just because televisions can't offer anything anymore." 

Lakers: Probably something that's taken me off a little bit of stress. The Lakers are the best team in the league right now even with a battered team that consists of injuries of nearly half their team. Kobe is a fierce competitor who physically can be a liability to the team because with his bad back and fingers. But his presence in the team makes them all the better. 

God: Where could I be without God? With more hardships and challenges comes the calling of God. I've been experiencing multitudes of stress with headaches and sleepiness. (Part of it has to do with the need of new prescription glasses) But I hope God can give me the strength and courage I need to conquer my days ahead of me. Don't forget to check out my Devotional blog here.

Challenges

Health reform, fire in southern california, job opportunities still steep, tech/internet companies trying to take over the virtual world. These are the challenges we've faced within the past month of August. I can only hope and pray for a more positive month of September. We are actually heading towards the end of the year. Was this a positive 1st half of the year? Challenges. Can we step up? 

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Last night's Tonight Show with Jay Leno

 

The conversation below was something I truly admire between President Obama and Jay Leno. It made me realize what I can do a business person for our future. It is the mere fact that someone out there is thinking more about helping and servicing the people of their community more than thinking about money first. Well said Mr. President. 

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MR. OBAMA: Well, and part of what happened over the last 15, 20 years is that so much money was made in finance that about 40 percent, I think, of our overall growth, our overall economic growth was in the financial sector. Well, now what we're finding out is a lot of that growth wasn't real. It was paper money, paper profits on the books, but it could be easily wiped out.

And what we need is steady growth; we need young people, instead of -- a smart kid coming out of school, instead of wanting to be an investment banker, we need them to decide they want to be an engineer, they want to be a scientist, they want to be a doctor or a teacher.

And if we're rewarding those kinds of things that actually contribute to making things and making people's lives better, that's going to put our economy on solid footing. We won't have this kind of bubble-and-bust economy that we've gotten so caught up in for the last several years.