Much of what I’m trying to do is “share my wisdom”. Not unusual for someone recently retired. I want to make everyone else’s path a little easier by sharing my successes and failures in hopes that they can avoid the failures and look for similar success opportunities.
Continue reading “Building Wisdom in Others”Keep focusing – tighter and tighter
Today I spent some time considering what I’m really trying to accomplish. I wrote out a few pages in my journal this morning – trying to gain some insights.
Continue reading “Keep focusing – tighter and tighter”It’s Quarterly Planning Time!
It seems that quarterly planning for personal goals is about as far as anyone should wander. To have a strong sense of where you want to be a full year from now? Wow. Not something I can do with any conviction.
Continue reading “It’s Quarterly Planning Time!”Nobody cares about your work as much as you.
Everyone wants to believe that their pet project – that thing that drives their creative juices – is truly important. And, really, it probably is. But we also want to believe that other people care about our ideas. That may be pushing it.
Continue reading “Nobody cares about your work as much as you.”Deep Work
I’m recently “retired”. Which means, I think, that I’m freer to set my priorities. It doesn’t mean that I’m sitting around with my feet up (very often).
Continue reading “Deep Work”Always Training
New ideas are great. I must believe that my Responsibility Matrix is a great idea, of course – why else would I pursue it? And there is an obvious training component. Is that always true?
Continue reading “Always Training”Progress, always progress
These past few days have been heartening. In the past I’ve been guilty, I suspect, of using “organizing” as a procrastination tool. But I think I’m past that. I made good high-level progress on the Responsibility Matrix these past few days.
Continue reading “Progress, always progress”Today was Organizing Monday!
I’m not sure why, but Mondays are always a good day for me to get organizing work completed. That’s probably the same for everyone, maybe.
Continue reading “Today was Organizing Monday!”Seeing the Challenge Correctly
That’s been holding me back. I haven’t had a reasonable way of grouping or categorizing my concepts. When dealing at an abstract level, grouping and categorizing are the prime enablers.
Continue reading “Seeing the Challenge Correctly”It’s hard to simplify
It’s an interesting conundrum. Let’s say that you are an expert in your field. Because of your experience, your specialty seems easy. It’s really quite simple. To you. And you have a responsibility to share that expertise with others. Now it gets hard.
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