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My year in review part 3 – Flipping the script

The PolyBlog
December 31 2022

I mentioned in a previous post that I’m often looking for metaphors to help me describe an experience. When I read the book Change by Jeffrey Kottler, one of the things that resonated with me was the idea that much of what you get from a negative or positive experience depends heavily on what you tell yourself. Sometimes even while it is still happening to you. The story you tell yourself shapes your reality, it defines your narrative. I was recently reading an interesting article from Entrepreneur entitled “How Are You Measuring Your Success in 2022?” by Kate Isler and … Continue reading →

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My year in review part 2 – Looking at my career in 2022

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December 31 2022

Previously, I looked at my progress for the year and said it sucked canal water. Lots of things in there where my home life squeezed out other activities. What wasn’t really on my list at the start of the year was much about my career. I mentioned in the previous post that it’s hard to nuance it for context and perspective. At the start of the year, life was normal-ish. I had accepted a new job starting in mid-January that was slated to run for six months. It would be an opportunity to fully assess if I wanted to be … Continue reading →

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My year in review part 1 – 2022 sucked canal water

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December 30 2022

Each year, as January 1st approaches, I start thinking about the past year and my plans and resolutions from the previous January. I often have pretty ambitious plans, and up until a few years ago, I would say I did pretty well overall for any given year. I know I accomplished stuff, even if it wasn’t always as much as I wanted. Yet, don’t get me wrong. I had impossibly long lists of options of things I wanted to do or at least work on, literally too many things to do in a single year unless I quit work, stopped … Continue reading →

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Tracking progress with adult merit badges?

The PolyBlog
May 23 2022

If you’ve browsed my blog, you likely know that I’m frequently obsessed with goals, goal-setting, performance metrics, and the all ubiquitous “tracker”. Almost all of them are in some form of paper or digital form for most people. They use bullet journals, Daytimer style tools, Gantt charts, to do lists, lists of other lists, trackers of trackers, dashboards, etc. But rarely is there a “physical” version of the tracker or success. One idea I saw mentioned in a business article was that of someone who had created a Gantt chart out of Lego. For those who know how to use … Continue reading →

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Progress in 2022: Update #5-6 of 52 – The dual list is working

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February 14 2022

I skipped last week’s report, let’s see what I have for the last two weeks. At my last update, I had just switched over from everything together to separating out my “projects”. For “regular” items, I’ve written my 7Qs segment and now this update; I followed up with the nurse about my new diabetes medicine and made my weekly injections, took Andrea and Jacob to various appointments, got groceries twice, caught up on laundry, wrote some cheques for end-of-year gift-giving (Winnipeg “Scopes for Kids” program and Astropontiac), tried a new recipe or two, had a game night, and did some … Continue reading →

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