The Part about Image

I gather that image is very important. why? otherwise i wouldn't be waking up at 6 this morning, going for a jog around my estate, doing crunches & push ups, stretching and log raises at the excercise area downstairs...do i feel great..not really, though i MANAGED to run round the estate without stopping, now i have a abso-freaking-lutely splitting headache...

its ok, i'll take an aspirin for that..but come to think of it why the heck am i doing this...i wondered. the answer had coe to me the previous night before..."for your image you dumb a**h****-when you start working" said my ego....

Ego: u wouldn't want your colleagues at ur new company to think you as a slob would ya Wayne?
Me: (grunts) sure why not, wait till they see the real me (digs head further into pillow)
Ego: Awww c'mon! think of the image you would put i their heads....the image u wanted since u GRADUATED from CTSS.....
Me: (muffled) Quit being a jerk , i wanna catch my Zzzzzs...shhh.....
Ego: Slob without image.... =p
Me: (groans) shut the f*** up!!!
Ego: Everyone around you thinks that you look better without that stoopid glasses of urs and with a leaner bod...everyone except you....BUM!!
Me: ZZzzzZZZZzzzZZZ

So this morning, my Ego took control of me. Which is not a common thing, because...if i' let ego run amok, gawd knows how mani screwups i'd have since those many eons ago. woke up and cleaned up and we went excercising...

so like i said Image is everything. Need an example?

1) who doesn't want a hunky boifriend or a babelicious girfriend?
2) who doens't want to be seen at the latest club in town or to be seen yakking away at the lastest Nokia mobile phone, to hold that trendy micro/mini credit card in your hand...
3) who doesn't want to have that new haircut, put on a powersuit and walk on an air of confidence???

Everyone does, its not whether we can afford to look good or spend money in it. its an expenditure in effort. and working for it...

Another example: it not about looks this time...your reputation is at stake too....one er...famous example is my OPSCOM family at 28BNCOC'04. DJ was my 'executive officer' or the guy next in charge after me and he'd always preached the concept of image to our juniors...so there were times when our image was hurt and damaged due to our actions as instructors or in our actions as happi-go-lucky-crazy-go zap 'em all+minding-our-own-biz-and-not-have-a-care-in-the-world kinda ppl. I'm sure i;ve contributed generously to the destruction of our image as well. Not to do this or not to do that so that our trainees would blah blah blah blah (can't think of any examples within an example right now...BUTTTT>....u get the general idea....) so certain times...image went down the drain....

'Nuff said...so... am i glad that ego took over me this morning??? if I dun collapse at work todae...you'll know soon enough...