Work in Progress

How does one go about knowing who I am?
Why is this important , knowing myself ?
Enlightenment is of what value to me and others?
Who cares really whether I am enlightened or not ?

I ask myself and reflect about these questions and the others , if change is a must then I must be cognitive to the process of change or else what is its purpose ?

• What makes it so difficult to be myself with my family?
• How is my relationship with my spouse affected by how my family acted when I was a child?
• Will my parents still love me if I let them know my real feelings?
• How has my birth order and my gender affected my personality?
• What birth order in a spouse is the best match for me?
• Why do I always feel rejected when my spouse disagrees with me?
• How can I change the way I react?
• What role does my family history play in my life?
• How can I improve my communication skills?

The unreality is changed to subjective reality through curiousity

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The Reality of Change

Change alone is unchanging.
- Heraclitus (c. 535-c. 475 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Herakleitos & Diogenes, pt. 1, fragment 23

All things change, nothing is extinguished. . . . There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.
- Ovid (43 B.C.-A. D. 17), Roman poet. Pythagoras, in Metamorphoses, bk. 15 (c. A.D. 8).

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
- Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), English philosopher. Principles of Biology, pt. 1, ch. 4 (1865).

All things must change to something new, to something strange.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.
- Christina Baldwin

Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus

The Conflict of Change

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
- Saul Alinsky (1909-72), U.S. radical activist. Rules for Radicals, "The Purpose" (1971).

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. James Baldwin (1924-87), U.S. author.
- "Every Good-Bye Ain't Gone" (published in New York, 19 Dec. 1977; repr. in The Price of the Ticket, 1985).

They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
- Andy Warhol

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy

The Impact of Change

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.
- King Whitney, Jr.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.
- Eldridge Cleaver (b. 1935), U.S. black leader, writer. Soul on Ice, "The White Race and Its Heroes" (1968).

We must become the change we want to see.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
- Harry S. Truman

The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.
- John Schaar, futurist

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
- Eric Hoffer

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
- Lewis Grizzard

Reflecting on Change

At the End Time: About 50 minutes - 30 minutes for individual reflection and 20 minutes for discussion after the reflection period. First Step - 30 minutes: Listed below are several quotes on change. Have each learner go through each of the three sections and pick one quote from each section. Have them reflect on each quote for about 10 minutes. Second Step - 20 minutes: After the reflection period, lead a discussion on change. Some sample questions might be: What is change? How is change perceived in your organization? How can you improve the change process so it will go smoother? Why must there be change? Can people be taught or led to enjoy change?

Hunting, Hawking, and Heraldry

'An Eagle for an Emperor, a Gyrfalcon for a King;a Peregrine for a Prince, a Saker for a Knight, a Merlin for a Lady; a Goshawk for a Yeoman, a Sparrowhawk for a Priest, a Musket for a Holy water Clerk , a Kestrel for a Knave.' Book of St. Albans (1486),

A world of order and appropriate benefit.

"Non-Indian will never led UNC"

Dear Mr. Shah,

I read your article "Non-Indian will never led UNC" in the Trinidad Express April 29, 2001. I found it to be an interested commentary and would like to know how much of it is composed of facts and how much from personal invectives.

My caption calls upon you to compose a path forward, now that we know the sky's blue and the earth is not flat, how can this nation state gather rewards for its present and future citizens and what do you forsee the costs to be?

You may contritely answer that healing begins with first recognizing there is illness but then what?

It behooves me to ask you what is your true agenda? Are you a vanguard of reformation , or are you part of a historic artifact of an "what if" that occurred more that three decades ago? You seem to succinctly calibrated and refined your dosage of hemlock as to what the "real" power centric ego motivation of the current Prime Minister Mr. Panday is, but to what end ?

Are you planning to step forward as the new Moses for the 21first century? Do you have the vision, single-mindedness , wisdom thickskined, ruthlessness and diplomatic finesse to lead and empower for the betterment?

Who do you really represent , Mr. Shah and why should you be entrusted with a pan-national mandate? Are you a guns or butter man or a hybrid of both polarities?

Where is your thoughts on good governing and what value system is it premised on for this heterogeneous, pluralistic and mass "politically uneducated" citizenry as you allude to in your writing?

Many persons much wiser than myself have often called us not to focus on answers which ebb and flow as the tidal changes in Mayaro's beaches, but to find clarity, accuracy and brevity in the questions you ask of your self and others. It is the latter which remain as constant as the northern star.

Macavilli, Bentham, Lenin, Sun Tzu, Lao Tzu, Von Clauswitz, Paine,Montesquie and Mill tried to define the ideal relationship of that carnal trinity of leader to statehood to the individual. It seems to be all Solon's Greek to me.

Your published response is appreciated.

Yours respectfully,
Adrian Matadeen
Old Boy of Naparima Class of 1987
Vancouver , BC Canada

"Tell Me Who to Kill?" By Dr. Selwyn R. Cudjoe September 26, 2008

Dear Selwyn:

In light of the Duprey/CLICO/British American dawning of financial malfeasance , your sharp pen is hopefully poise again onto paper to delight the fancies of your readership with a polemic display of your literary and poetic skills .

It is now four months and some and your silence is reverberating the halls of amusement and the castles of triviality. We your readership question how can an intellectual elite be so blatantly asymmetric, where is this one eye man in the land of the blind? Where is Cudjoe? Where is Selwyn's voice on this Duprey matter?

Come out of your den, dragon, come out I say. Breathe out your poisonous fire , sour the air with your noxious fumes of diatribe and race thinking, Come out Selywn , I command you to come out cantankerous worm, come out of your hole. But wait...

There is a man on a horse armed with a spear prepared to do battle with you, Worm. His name is Reason and his weapon is called critical thought. You will feel Reason's sting in your belly, Cudjoe.Come out! Petant aut petant venire habet Vermo a manu,

Semper Fedelis

Adrian Matadeen
Green Business Developer/Financier
Trinidad & Tobago
West Indies

My Purpose & My Mission 2009 to 2015

I , Adrian Matadeen, have as mission & primary purpose while here in Trinidad & Tobago for the next 36 to 60 months to create fifty thousand new well paying jobs. These jobs are not premised on the Petroindustry and offers gainful advancement.

Methodology: An example of a sustainable project that is win -win , and creates between 5500 to 9000 high paying jobs in total.

* Project Tamarind - A national curbside collection program for the picking up and sorting of recyclable products from both business and households , Phase one. Contiguous is Phase two which is the building and operating of a Materials Recover Facility for used car tires, plastic empties, glass , paper, aluminum & cardboard which has downstream products. For example Post Consumer Resins from the plastics empties, cullet from crushed glass, toilet paper from recycled paper and roof tiles from car tires. This plan has been submitted to the Government of Trinidad & Tobago , Solid Waste Management Company Limited , the regional leader of plastic bottling CC1 ( Coca-Cola), National Insurance Board of Trinidad & Tobago, First Citizens Bank of Trinidad & Tobago, Caribbean private sector recyclers , waste disposal companies in Trinidad & Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago Manufactures Association ,private investors, concerned individuals, The Trinidad & Tobago Chamber of Commerce , domestic & foreign venture capitalist and international funders such as CIDA, World Bank, OECD & EIB.

Did You Know?

• Recycling aluminum saves 95% energy vs. virgin aluminum; recycling of one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for 3 hours(Reynolds Metal Co.)
• Recycled aluminum reduces pollution by 95%(Reynolds Metal Co.)
• 4 lbs of bauxite are saved for every pound of aluminum recycled (Reynolds Metal Co.)
• Enough aluminum is thrown away to rebuild our commercial air fleet 4 times every year.
• Recycled glass saves 50% energy vs. virgin glass(Centre for Ecological Technology)
• Recycling of one glass container saves enough energy to light a 100-watt bulb for 4 hours(EPA)
• Recycled glass generates 20% less air pollution and 50% less water pollution(NASA)
• 1 ton of glass made from 50% recycled materials saves 250 lbs. of mining waste(EPA)
• Glass can be reused an infinite number of times; over 41 billion glass containers are made each year(EPA)
• Recycled paper saves 60% energy vs. virgin paper(Centre for Ecological Technology)
• Recycled paper generates 95% less air pollution: each ton saves 60 lbs. of air pollution(Centre for Ecological Technology)
• Recycling of each ton of paper saves 17 trees and 7000 gallons of water(EPA)
• Every year enough paper is thrown away to make a 12' wall from New York to California
• Plasic milk containers are now only half the weight that they were in 1960(EPA)
• If we recycled every plastic bottle we used, we would keep 2 billion tons of plastic out of landfills(Penn State)
• According to the EPA, recycling a pound of PET saves approximately 12,000 BTU's
• We use enough plastic wrap to wrap all of Texas every year(EPA) source: University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Produces and maintained by the office of Waste Management.
• Incinerating 10,000 tons of waste creates one job; landfilling 10,000 tons of waste creates six jobs; recycling 10,000 tons of waste creates 36 jobs.

Think recycling is expensive? Consider this: aluminum cans are the most valuable item in your bin. Aluminum can recycling helps fund the entire curbside collection. It’s the only packaging material that more than covers the cost of collection and re-processing for itself. Adapted from http://ontario.earth911.org/can/master.asp

If you are interested in this project please feel free to email me at amatadeen@gmail.com or call me at 1-868-292-4282 (EST). Thank you for your time and patience.

With gratitude

Adrian Matadeen

Efficiency warrior

Green business developer & Funder

Vancouver BC Canada

& Trinidad & Tobago WI

Work opportunities through the power of networking Operational Simplification

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. Ursula K. LeGuin Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.
King Whitney Jr.
IDEA + TALENT+ MONEY=ENTERPRISE
I am at http://www.linkedin.com/pub/10/85/52. If you do come across opportunities through your extensive network, your referral is appreciated. I am looking for work in the level of mid to senior leadership upto C-level responsibility in one of the following industries:Manufacturing, Mining, Pharma/Medical devices,HR , Energy Gen,Banking/Finance,Insurance/ Investment , Retail, Logistics, Telephony/Call Center,Security, Service, NPO and Gaming.
The work must touch one of the following:
Strategy, Regional/Site Development, Interim Management, Business Plan Development / Execution , Innovation Management, Sales Stimulation, Sales Force Effectiveness, Product Portfolio Management, Organizational Leadership Restructuring, Core Process Redesign, Due Diligence and Creativity Sourcing.

I prefer working with people and hopefully within a people business as the future if it becomes too compartmentalized leads into a degeneration of the values and mind of what makes us humans, compassion, care , and selflessness being the three keys.

I like to frame the work I pursue by stating I seek work in which I can enlarge the range of my life experiences where I am free .

In closing thank you for your time, interest and patience with this matter.
In gratitude

Adrian Matadeen
Job seeker
amatadeen@gmail.com