Archive for May, 2006

• 5.22.06 "“It’s never the right time”" is posted in Reflections

This simple quote ought to be added to a list of quotes I live by. I’m focusing on one quote here because it’s probably the most relevant for so many of us in our overly busy days. Of course, the quote points out that we need to go DO the things we’d like rather than concern ourselves with the fact that we never seem to have time for them.

The specific impetus for this entry was a gathering I never have time to attend. I know that, come this evening, I’m still going to have a lot to do…but enough is enough. The fact is that work is going to work itself out, regardless of whether or not I go out too much.

So that’s my simple thought for starting the work week–it’s time to stop making excuses because it’s simply never going to be the right time.

• 5.20.06 "Luckiness in our overall perspective…" is posted in Best Of, Reflections

I wonder whether most people think of themselves as lucky. There are times when I’d like things to be just a little different, but overall I struggle to find occasions when things didn’t work out well for me. But I know of many friends who don’t seem to look at themselves as particularly lucky. I wonder whether most people consider themselves lucky, and how that affects the way they live…

I have friends who have lived through awful circumstances. The girl who, in every relationship, gets cheated on in unpredictable & heinous ways. The friend with multiple advanced degrees who is continually pushed away from her life mission by being passed over by medical schools. Or, much worse, the friend who at 23 has been through the death of her two most serious boyfriends.

Perhaps one could respond that these people are not the ones who are truly suffering, and that they’re generally lucky to have certain privileges and all of their basic needs met. But I’m not looking to debate the priorities or definition of “luck” for people who are well-off, just to question how life treats people, regardless of their frame of reference.

My luckiness has led me (more…)

• 5.7.06 "Making progress, and a thought on judging people" is posted in Reflections, Work & Career

It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve written here, and a lot has happened. I’m finally taking some steps toward goals I’ve long sought. It feels good to be making progress… Some of the things I’ve been up to lately include:

• Working on refinancing the house
• Restructuring mine and my business’s reporting of finances
• Hiring one new person and getting far into the process of hiring another
• Looking for new tenants (almost done)
• Joining a new book club (and thus reading full books for pleasure again)
• Looking at cars for when all the dust settles in the aforementioned big endeavors

These are just some of the potpourri of big decisions, but overall just a lot has been happening. I feel I’m at stage 3 or 4 of the company (don’t feel solo in any way, have financial stability, expanding into a new market, etc) and that I’m coming to a new comfortable place in the rest of life (figuring out who & what I need around me, or at least getting closer).

In going through a pile of papers today I came across a quote I highlighted a while back from Guy Kawasaki’s blog. It’s one bit of advice that I hope sticks with me as many new people seem to be entering my life. (more…)