Stopping to say hi is not overrated.

September 14, 2010

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I met 3 new people today.

Paul: I see Paul, maybe once a week.  He’s a local homeless guy in Kirkland, WA.  I presume he’s homeless, given his belongings and signage and general demeanor.  I told myself that the next time I saw him I would stop and introduce myself.  So, I did.  I stopped my motorcycle, got off, walked up and introduced myself.  We chatted for 30 seconds or so and he went on his way.  I have no idea, but I think that may have made his day.

Jerry and Cheryl (sp?): They have parking spots next to me in the garage at the condo where I live.  It turns out that we have several Minnesota connection.  They are in the area for 6 months, renting a condo in my building.  They’re traveling to Chelan, WA tomorrow for a vacation and I just got back from a trip in that area.  We talked for maybe 20 minutes or more.  They’re very nice people and it was good to make a connection.  Jerry and I talked about what makes a place feel like home.  His parting words were, “Thank you for your wisdom.”  Wow!  Talk about humbling.

Yeah, stopping to say hi is not overrated.

Envision. Plan. Develop. Deploy. Support. Rinse. Repeat.

April 27, 2010

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I find myself hanging out with a few great people these days.  I often spend time chatting and discussing life.  Accordingly, I have not been writing as much as I’d like.  I’m just going to roll with it for a bit.  I do need to exercise my brain by recording thoughts.  That’s not the real exercise (for me).  It’s sharing thoughts so that others can easily understand them that is a bit draining and a bit challenging at times.

Sometimes I wonder, why is it that expressing a great idea is so much more difficult than having a great idea?  I know that implementation is always harder than expression.  Maybe it’s part of my recent efforts to live pretty simply and minimize the “stuff” around me from a material possessions viewpoint.  That’s great, but it is also something that’s hard to become infectious with.  You see, I don’t think a great idea or even a batch of great ideas is enough.  I want to makes stuff happen and be a person of action, not just just intellectual jargon and rhetoric.  Action begets habits and ultimately changes lives and changes the world.

So, connecting the dots, I realize that for me it is a season for listening and filtering and absorbing.  Then there will be a  season for planning.  And, then there will be a longer season for doing.  There is a lot of similarities to the consulting work that takes up my daytime, work day hours.  Envision. Plan. Develop. Deploy. Support. Rinse. Repeat.

I think I’m envisioning and planning, for this “rest of my life” project.  I know there are plenty of cross-overs between the business world and the regular, interpersonal world.  I also know that there are plenty of things that do not cross over.  I’m trying to be patient and learn, while I have some great people around me.  I’m trying to absorb and personalize life lessons that I want to make my own.  And, I’m trying to be simple along the way.  It’s not a challenge for the faint of heart!

Ordinary

April 10, 2010

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I certainly don’t strive to be ordinary.  I think I often go out of my way to not be ordinary. Maybe it’s an art. ;)

…so is mothering…  I just watched this video and thought about all the emotions that any mom must go through.  Wow.  As a guy, on the other side of those emotions growing up, I think I just felt hungry.  I was always hungry.  (NOTE: Hunger is not really a valid emotional feeling.  That’s kind of the point of using it here.)

I guess I’m kind of a sap for stuff like this, sometimes.  I still want to hunt and protect and fix.  But, sometimes, there’s a soft side.

The Gift of an Ordinary Day by Katrina Kenison

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