Investing in Yourself

We have all heard the phrase, “pay yourself first,” and it has to do with putting aside money for yourself before you pay your bills and deal with other expenses. It is not just a form of common sense and good investing, but it has to do with self respect. How can you give respect to others when you do not even have any respect for yourself? How can you bless the lives of others when you have not given yourself blessings first? All resources must come from somewhere and how you treat yourself and how you invest in yourself both have everything to do with what type of productivity you are able to put out.

Investing in yourself is not a new concept. However, it has become less and less socially acceptable to even talk about, since society in general and lower middle socioeconomic groups in particular fail to discern between investing in yourself and just plain selfishness. How does one go about investing in themselves, while at the same time avoiding the unpleasant and depressing insistence of others that they should be serving their community instead?

The key is in secrecy, privacy and isolation. When you tell other people about what you are doing for yourself, even if they show unlimited external support of your ideas, it helps to draw your focus in that direction…externally. Fortunately, this article describes the importance of being intimate with yourself and your personality and investing in things that only you like to do and that only sink blessing into your own life, without anyone else knowing anything about it.

Do all of your personal intimate and private self improvements in private, and tell no one about them afterward. This builds up your internal reserves because no one else knows your secret and can then evaluate it in any direction, and it also helps you to feel like you can tweak it without having to update the general populace around you. Your intimate conversations with yourself should be just that…intimate. This is the highest and most profitable and most permanent way to invest in yourself. On the jobsite, your reactions will be quick and to the point, and your spirit will be calm and relaxed and not affected by the disillusionment and dissatisfaction of others.

In the meantime, CMM Technology offers another, more external, way to bring calmness and responsible employees together. Our drug test and alcohol breathalyser devices will bring a whole new state of calm and security to your jobsite, thanks to employee drug and alcohol testing.

Expectations and Their Consequences

Expectations, just like habits, can make or break a man. In fact, most expectations already are habits. They are just habitual beliefs about circumstances and people and places and situations which have been cultivated over time into expectations. Well, we cannot do much about it someone else has low expectations of us, and it is not in our best interests to try to dissuade them from this ideal, because that would allow their opinion to control our actions. We can, however, control how we perceive the world around us, and deal with life in a more proactive manner. For example, perpetual worriers often feel that it is normal to have some stress or concern in their minds at all times, or else they feel that they are being irresponsible. Conversely, those who never concern themselves even with basic responsibilities find everyone else to be too uptight and not as mellow as they are. Of course, in either case, their surrounding or external circumstances have not changed at all, but their private worlds are different depending upon how they perceive themselves and the world immediately around them.In advertising, this motto is frequently touted: perception IS reality.

Unfortunately, negative expectations not only change your own energy, but they change how you behave and how your react to others, bringing about and increasing the likelihood that others will act in the manner which you expect. This is a commonplace phenomenon, which describes how perceptions affect the perceiver FIRST, and then the perceiver's behavior and attitude affects others to the point where they begin delivering what is expected of them, good or bad. Often, drug addicts and alcoholics are so far gone that they do not even need to see the expected behavior in someone else before they accuse them and expect evil from them.

Fortunately, not all expectations have to be continually fed, especially in a worthwhile marketplace like the professional business world. CMM Technology provides employee drug testing equipment to help reduce these negative expectations due to abuse. Check out our drug tests and alcohol breathalyser devices, especially our Medix drug testing kits and our Lion SD 500 breathalyser devices.

Employee Discrepancy Policies

In every business, employees will break the rules, as well as engaging in discrepancies which are not listed in the rules. Many large companies with several thousand employees incorporate very detailed policies and a comprehensive human resources department in order to deal with just about any problem which could possibly arise. Outside of that comprehensive list, managers and executives work hard to make sure that employees have a thorough understanding of what is expected of them and what is not. This nice set up is a good way to conduct business, and common sense is a large part of what makes a good business great. Fortunately, part of this process is scientific and involves drug and alcohol testing. For example, CMM Technology provides Alcoblow, Lion SD 400, Lion SD 500, and Oraline drug tests and alcohol breathalyser devices to companies, especially ones which employee onsite drug and alcohol testing. This is particularly for drug testing in Western Australia, though we ship our products all over Australia and to certain select countries.

Employee discrepancies can easily involve drugs or alcohol, and this type of behavior can allow your business to be liable for accidents, injuries, even fatalities, not to mention what employees may incur to and from work if they are under the influence. Drug and alcohol testing is part of prevention of danger and protection of your assets. Many companies use it as part of their standard policy based upon how effective it is and how easily it illuminates problem individuals within the business.

More importantly, though, drug tests can be used as scientific backing for reason to discharge employees. If someone ever sues your business for loss of employment, you will have scientific data to back your position. It is a matter of safety in case of lawsuit.

Employee discrepancy policies are in place to protect not just you, but their coworkers. Not everyone wishes to work with someone who cannot control themselves. Company implemented policies can be just the sort of safety net and reassurance that makes your business so well worth working for.

Business Market Updates and Why You Should Use Them

Resources like CNN Money on YouTube, TED Talks on Ted.com, and Information and Teaching offered by upscale universities like MIT under the Creative Commons License are all valuable insights into the world around you. They are, in effect, business market updates covering a wide variety of material and offering an extremely in depth and thorough perspective on the world around us, and most of these videos are up-to-date up to the very latest minute.

Business education is very important, because it gives you perspective on what people are really wearing out in the professional world, how they are acting, what they think of new technology, and which businesses are now obsolete because they are not keeping up with business market updates themselves. A well rounded perspective is the cornerstone to a successful career, a thriving family, and a growing home life. Without it, we as humans tend to just replay old patterns, distorted and out of date patterns, thus hobbling ourselves even more. It is time to take off the shackles and start investing a little more time and energy and education in yourself.

Well, does all of this mean that you have to spend your day glued to your computer and watching all of your videos as they are updated in real time? No, this would actually be detrimental to your growth and development. A recommendation would be something along these lines: determine how much of each type of educational video you are willing to spend time on each day, set a minimum and maximum number for each type of video so that you can satisfy your curiosity if some days you want to watch more than others, and then plan a particular time of the day in which you will regularly watch them. Setting a minimum number of videos ensures that you stay updated and educated within your time frame.

In the business world, keep your company updated in real time through employee drug and alcohol testing. Use our Oraline saliva drug tests, our Medix drug kits, and even our Lion Alcoblow personal breathalyser devices.

A New Level of Independence

Self education is not necessarily about going back to school and acquiring new diplomas, although the prestige and accreditation of a new degree certificate is certainly an added bonus. Instead, self education is about growth as an individual, and you are the only person in the world who can determine what will help you to grow and what will not. This does not mean that you should make snap judgments about different things, but that you should consider where you want to develop, and then seek out information and material which guides you through the educational process.

Self education gives you independence in a very real way. In fact, nothing else on earth can give you such inherent freedom than self education. Even money and clout and power cannot buy quite all of what independence has to offer because, without wisdom, discretion and self education, that clout will be misused and will go find someone else who knows how to use it properly. Success is something that finds you when you are ready for it, not something which you find when you are out looking for it. As the saying goes, “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.”

Self created and sustained independence is a responsibility that no other person can give you, nor can they take it away from you. It typifies the human will to achieve goals at all costs, no matter what they have to do to figure out the process for themselves. It typifies survival and evolution and creativity and flow.

CMM Technology believes in self education and in company education. We believe in learning about the drug testing products we distribute, and learning more about why they are so helpful. CMM Technology knows that drug and alcohol testing can change the safety and energy structure in your business to one of positivity and growth and enlightenment and positive change. Drug testing in Western Australia has never seen such devotion to this work. Explore our products, such as Medix , and our personal breathalysers such as Lion SD 400 and Lion SD 500.

Different Reactions to Trouble

Trouble comes in many forms, but different personality types and different environments of origin determine how different people respond to it. For example, when one young adult messes up, they tend to try to correct the fault and face the music, while another may believe that all is lost and that they have to get out while the getting’s good. In other words, some interpret the information correctly and some distort the information, engaging in overkill. Some take the problem in stride, while others way overreact.

You cannot choose, or even know about, different backgrounds from which your employees have come. They will all react to trouble in completely different ways, some more helpful or constructive than others. In times like these, your employees need a leader. They need someone who will set an example and guide them on the straight and narrow path toward acceptable reactions. This is the time for things like drug and alcohol screening. Drug tests and alcohol breathalyser devices set a precedent for what is expected from all of your hard working employees. They now have a solid concept of what is expected and what will not be tolerated.

Reactions to trouble are not the only reactions which will cause problems for your business. Many employees will react to the drug testing program itself, looking for a way out, refusing to take drug tests, and looking for a way to be an exception to the rule. It is important to be able to discern between an emotional reaction based upon their individual past, and a con game or manipulation which they may try to use to get out of something. If all else fails, and there seems to be a problem in the workplace or on the jobsite, drug and alcohol testing is the solution. Try out Lion SD 400, our Oraline drug test, and our Medix equipment for your employee drug test and alcohol breathalyser tests. CMM Technology exists to provide this equipment to drug testing operations, and workplaces, and onsite testing services

Determination and Strength of Stability

As with cigarette lighters, very few of us take determination seriously. We use what we need and then we throw the rest away. It is no big deal. However, determination used to be considered a virtue and it was written about in books of character not sixty years ago. What changed and why is determination no longer concentrated on as a basis of strength and stability?

At some point, the lifestyle of first world countries became so transparent and easy to navigate that, without using any perseverance, determination, or internal strength, one can live a fairly comfortable life without being subjected to too many bad or unsavory characters. While the quality of living has increased enormously, the effort taken to increase that quality of living has become almost zero.

Stability, while almost inherit in most parts of our society, filling up the spaces in between the buildings, is no longer valued or concentrated upon in private lives by individual forethought. Stability is not valued, much as determination is not valued. The result is an undefined amount of leisure and relative safety, without personal stability or effort being put into increase or betterment of lifestyle. In fact, one can almost appreciate the peasant classes and rich, well educated, and well to do classes of less than a century ago, because at least then one had something to strive for. At this point in time, our comfortable and luxurious society in general has created starvation and danger in individual choices.

To return to a life of seeking value and increasing one’s own resources dramatically, it is necessary to value and properly take care of and maintain the resources we already have. After all, the habit must be rebuilt. Workplace drug testing and alcohol testing is valuable in the stability and the increase of net worth of your business. Employee drug and alcohol testing is a purposeful effort in maintaining and growing our resources. That is why CMM Technology is in business today. We want to regain the growth of yore.