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My year in review part 3 – Flipping the script

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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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#MoreJoy – Day 31 of 31 – NaNoWriMo

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November 1 2021

For those of you not familiar with the acronym, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing in a Month. Ignoring the awkward construction of the title, the premise is simple. People around the world are encouraged to write, write, write every day for the month of November — binge-writing, if you will — to produce a 50,000-word manuscript. There are LOTS of views about NaNoWriMo, ranging from “everybody just writes crap, it’s quality that counts” to “what a great way to just blast through and remember what’s fun about writing.” There is an equal number of views about HOW to do … Continue reading →

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#MoreJoy – Day 30 of 31 – Are you a closet dasher?

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October 30 2021

Okay, so the heading was a bit cryptic to see if you clicked. 🙂 By “dasher”, I mean somebody who likes, designs and uses dashboards. Obviously, the simplest dashboard is a to-do list. A simple list by itself doesn’t qualify — it shows info, but not status. But as soon as you add a check-box of some sort to show pending vs. completed? Now you’re in dashboard territory. Those two elements — simple info plus some sort of metric — are the two essential elements of a dashboard. Some people argue that it requires a graphical representation, or an indicator … Continue reading →

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