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The Social Evolutionary

You're on FIRE???

Vidéo complète avec images et sous titres bilingues ici: 
https://youtu.be/TfUitPI_E7Q?si=nCay-Gc2slazf2_l

French Stories For All

Histoire de ma Chaîne

                                                              (🌷 يَوْمُ فِي حَيَاةِ سَلْمَى🌷) 
سَلْمَى طَالِبَةٌ جَدِيدَةٌ فِي المَدِينَةِ. تَعِيشُ فِي شَقَّةٍ صَغِيرَةٍ مَعَ أُخْتِهَا. كُلَّ صَبَاحٍ، تَسْتَيْقِظُ وَتَقُولُ: "السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ." تَذْهَبُ إِلَى المَطْبَخِ وَتَتَنَاوَلُ الفَطُورَ. تُحِبُّ شُرْبَ الحَلِيبِ وَأَكْلَ الخُبْزِ. بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ، تُصَلِّي الفَجْرَ وَتَقْرَأُ قَلِيلًا مِنَ القُرْآنِ. فِي السَّاعَةِ الثَّامِنَةِ، تَذْهَبُ إِلَى الجَامِعَةِ لِلدِّرَاسَةِ. فِي الفَصْلِ، تَتَعَرَّفُ عَلَى أَصْدِقَاءِ جُدُدٍ. بَعْدَ الدِّرَاسَةِ، تَعْمَلُ فِي مَكْتَبَةٍ صَغِيرَةٍ. بَعْدَ العَمَلِ، تَعُودُ إِلَى المَنْزِلِ وَتَتَنَاوَلُ العَشَاءَ مَعَ أُخْتِهَا. تُحِبُّ أَكْلَ الأَرُزِّ وَالخُضَارِ. قَبْلَ النَّوْمِ، تَقْرَأُ كِتَابًا وَتَقُولُ:  "تُصْبِحِينَ عَلَى 
 خَيْرٍ" لِأُخْتِهَا


يَوْمٌ في حَيَاةِ سَلْمَى

يَوْمُ فِي حَيَاةِ سَلْمَى   

Is it true: "Money doesn't buy happiness"?

Today I'm talking about "Otsukimi (Viewing Moon)".

I saw the news of moon viewing on TV this morning. The harvest moon of thie year was September 10th. It was yesterday. The beautiful moon was on TV, but I didn't see it yesterday. OMG!
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こんにちは。
今朝、テレビを見ていたら、お月見のニュースをしていました。
きのうの夜、9月10日　土曜日、京都、大覚寺（だいかくじ）の大沢池で　「観月祭」が催されたそうです。
雲が多かったようですが、その雲を抜けて　月が顔を出すと、月見に来ていた人たちが、スマホで月の写真を撮ったり、うっとりと空を眺めている様子がテレビに映し出されていました。
私はというと、せっかくのお月さまを　眺めることもせず　仕事をしていました。

8月のカレンダーをめくって、「ああ、もう9月か。もうすぐお月見だな」とおもいながらも、結局、私は何もしませんでした。

お月さまが満月になるのは、年に何度もあることですが、この時期のお月さまは「中秋の名月」と言って、特別なものとして扱われています。中秋とは　秋の真ん中のことで、名月は秋の夜に昇る大きくてまん丸な満月のことです。

「月を愛でる」ということばがあります。日本人だけでなく、地球上のあらゆるところに　月を愛でる人たちがいると思います。
その証拠に、月を歌った歌はたくさんあります。
日本では、「月」「証城寺の狸囃子」「荒城の月」「朧月夜」「雨降りお月さん」などなど
海外では『ティファニーで朝食を』の「ムーン・リバー」、ジャズのスタンダートナンバー「フライ・ミー・トウ・ザ・ムーン」など、
月の夜を楽しむ歌もあれば、悲しい恋の物語を歌う歌もあります。

むかしむかしに書かれた日本の短歌でも　月は歌われています。
月見れば　ちぢにものこそ　悲しけれ　わが身一つの　秋にはあらねど（大江千里）
めぐりあひて　見しやそれとも　分かぬまに　雲がくれにし　夜半の月かな（紫式部）
心にもあらで　うき世に　ながらへば　恋しかるべき　夜半の月かな（三条院）

「月の短歌、俳句」で　ネット検索すると、なんとたくさんの歌が出てくることでしょう。
恋心をうたったもの、亡くなった人を想って歌ったもの、故郷への想いをうたったものなど、いろいろあります。
見ている月は　みんな同じはずなのに、月は　ひとりひとりに　違う風景を見せてくれているのかもしれませんね。

さて、私は1日おくれのお月見を　今夜　しようと思っています。

今日は　「お月見」をテーマにお話ししました。
最後まで聞いてくれてありがとうございました。

それでは、またね。　さようなら。


やさしい日本語（にほんご）

お月見（おつきみ）Viewing Moon

How do wealthy alpha females spend their money? Especially, when it comes to personal development. In this podcast, I will share what a female CEO spends on her health, which amounted to 6 digits.

FLO TALKS 

HOW MUCH DO FEMALE CEO'S SPEND ON THEMSELVES? 

Susana y yo nos echamos una platicadita sobre lo artesanal y lo industrial.

Mucho que decir

Lo artesanal y lo industrial Ft. Susana Resendiz

Convergent Thinking vs. Divergent Thinking: Why Planning Isn’t Always the Right Thing to Do

You’re overseeing a project and have all the pieces in place.

Your detailed timeline is mapped out. You’ve set expectations with leaders and team members. You’re prepared to keep all the deliverables organized.

Halfway through the project, a team comes to you with a suggestion—they think they’ve found a better way to handle a piece of the process.

Your stomach drops into your shoes. You’re the taskmaster. The organizer. The keeper of the schedule. This change in direction will only throw a wrench into the flawless plan you spent hours agonizing over. Even if it is a better way to go, you’re cringing at the idea of straying from your beloved system.

Sound familiar? It’s a common scenario for project managers. When you’re the one who’s solely responsible for keeping everything on track, it’s understandable that you’ll white-knuckle your tried and true processes.

But, think about this: You may be limiting the wiggle room team members need to take that project to the next level. By planning away every last inch of flexibility, you’re making it that much tougher to adapt to new information and evolving demands.

So, what do you do? It’s time for project management professionals to not only think of themselves as the keepers of plans, but also the ones responsible for pulling the very best out of teams.

To do so, they need to encourage and enable both pieces of the creative problem-solving process: divergent thinking and convergent thinking.

The Habits of Highly Effective English Communicators

Listening&Comprehension - Improving Project Management Professionals. The podcast is about pulling the very best out of teams.

Working from home and avoiding the journey to and from the office is saving many of us at least an hour every day, according to a 2023 study.

But we're not always using that saved time for ourselves — we're actually spending a lot of that time working.

The US-based National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) did a survey that looked at how workers in 27 countries used their time when working from home.

On average, the daily time saved by working from home was found to be 72 minutes.

Workers in China saved 102 minutes per day, while in Japan it was 100 minutes, and in India it was 99.

But the study also found that, on average, 40% of that saved time was spent working — either on the worker's main job or on an additional one.

Workers in Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan said they used more than half of their saved time to work.

So what happened to the rest of that extra time?

According to the study, an average of 34% was used as leisure time — with people in Germany and Austria using almost half of their extra time for leisure.

And 11% — about eight minutes per day — was spent looking after children or other family members.

The NBER said children had gotten a better deal with parents working from home — but that the big winners were employers, who got extra work time from their employees.

