33 degrees this morning (feels like 26 degrees). No walk Almost did but decided not to to make sure cold is over, still have sore throat and occasional cough.
One thing about moving, when you finish some tasks, you are finished, and you don’t have to do them again (at least until you move again or change something).
Basically there are a lot of “one time” tasks in life, once you finish you don’t have to do it again. Others of course you repeat daily, monthly, annually or whatever.
Another quote I just saw “The fist step towards change is awareness, the second is acceptance”. Obviously a lot of truth in that.
In case you are wondering, the quotes are from the “Music channel” on tv. The quotes have become very zen-like for some reason.
While I feel that quotes can be very enlightening, they also can come across as smug and preachy. Perhaps it depends on whether you like the quote or not!
Start of another “work week”. I find my walk to be an important part of my day, and of my “work day” and will be glad to get back into it.
My walk is actually much different now than when I had a different type job as City Manager, perhaps for obvious reasons. When I was City Manager, I wrote letters and memos (in my head) and mediated on various solutions to problems or opportunities, as well as a lot of self-improvement management techniques.
Of course, the actual walk is the same, but my thoughts are different. I probably pay more attention to the book I am listening to (I need to check on whether that is “to” or “too”, something I am not good at), and I don’t really think about work all that much during my walk as I used to.
I really do hope at some point to become more involved in government again. When I was discussing “encore careers” with other City Managers once (not realizing how soon “retirement” was to come), I mentioned that my favorite “encore” career would be to be an activist and basically be the opposite of what I was doing as City Manager!
I actually still feel that way, especially when I see one of the abuses of leadership. I actually was accepted into a program to acquaint me with how to have an impact, but it was oriented towards the city I just moved from, so I had to withdraw.
I don’t regret moving to this city at all, I am glad not to be a resident of the past city (which is the major city in this metropolitan area, my current city is about 90,000 population but in the same County). Maybe I can have an impact on the County and the small city eventually.
One thing I don’t like about the current city is it appears to have a lot more of the small town nature of making decisions behind closed doors and only by certain groups or individuals. Perhaps I am wrong, I will find out after we get more settled in.
Sunday 3-20-16: Dream
One of those “thank goodness it was only a dream’” dreams
Dreamed i was at ether a conference or attending college, appearnelty attending college, in fact I believe was graduate school.
Dreamed I was attending classes (for some reason I was laying in bad while attending class)
Went to a variety of classes and I was thinking I was going to tell Aliene , “These are hard” and I am going to have to work hard.
Anyway, I had a bag of books etc. I was on some kind of tram or train that traveled through the campus when I realized I had lost them. I assume it included my computer and I think the computer took on the importance of my work computer, which is absolutely essential to my work. Like my badge, you don’t even ask what will happen if you lose it or damage it, you just don’t lose it!
I wondered around trying to find where I had been and I told Aliene I had lost my bag.
Feeling woeful when the I woke and I realized it was a dream, but a very involved “real life” dream.
Again, no idea what it means, I’ll go back and review all my dreams.
That’s it for now, Monday, March 21, 2016.
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