A blogger near Seattle exploring the future
Lessons learned about life; pearls of wisdom I’ve gleaned through pain, failure and honest reflection
Came across this image the other day. It makes me think: “am I being the best I can be?”
Am I pushing myself? Do I seek challenges to rise to?
Well, often I do. However, it’s not always easy and, sometimes, it’s easy to slide back into the non-talent mindset, waiting for someone else to come save me.
When I catch that, though, it annoys me and drives me to snap out and move forward.
What about you? Where do you fit in this puzzle of life?
It was lovely day, by my standards, at least. Yeah, a bit wet in the morning, but the afternoon turned out nice. Well, not pouring down.
Got a walk in after lunch. Still haven’t made my 10,000 steps, though. Ah, my sedentary life! My fitbit drives me forward to a more active life. Helping me clear my mind, enabling me to focus better, to be more present, not all lost, in my head, dealing with some random element or another.
Spent the evening talking with some friends, and the daughter of one of them. It was quite a charming hour. Reminded me of the “plan” all those many years ago to have a second child, ostensibly a daughter.
I was struck, as I considered time, how intensely short it is from diapers to adulthood. Talking with this girl, it hits me that she’s existed only a tiny fraction of my life. And yet she’s clever, witty, bright and engaging. Full of ideas, knowledge and life.
This is why I work so hard to be in the “now” of life. It’s so fleeting. This girl will soon be in middle school, driving, off to college. As will my son. It’s fleeting. I must savor this moment, as it will waft away, watched or not. Once gone, it’s dead.
I see this as the ultimate manifestation of love. To be here, be aware of the now, fully engaged in this moment, with these people. Now. It’s all we got.
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A few thoughts on the day.
Pretty trippy and weird. Which fits my mood of late. Plus, well, it really is nice weather for ducks.
Autumn 2016’s First Storm Of The Season
https://storify.com/carlsetzer/washington-windstorm-october-2016
Ah, meetings! This evening’s have me some ideas about leadership.
We’re tasked with coming up with a plan to implement a new vision, which is in process. It’s an awkward place to find oneself. Trying to continue forward motion while leaving room for the input of others. I guess we’re in that proverbial “build the plane while flying it” place.
In this place, while considering such things as agile methodologies and such things, I was struck about a key element of leadership. Keeping disparate mindsets working together. Especially when they strongly disagree. Then I came up with the line in the subject: inspirational, aspirational and grounded.
Inspirational: having a focus on something bigger, moving towards something greater than the sum. And the ensuing excitement. Creating and sustaining that energy.
Aspirational: doing something new, stretching, growing, moving towards greatness.
Grounded: that feeling that this is something that can really be done. Non-vaporware.
These elements are critical for creating and sustaining projects. The function of leadership, in my not so humble opinion. Navigating thorough the wilderness, creating the new and wonderful. That’s what delights me. And, so, these need to be parts of my life.
Either we live with fear, face it, embrace it, fighting a path through it, or we live free of challenge, lacking in growth and success.
I hate fear, the intensity disturbs me. This sensation, my psyche resisting boundaries, painfully discomforting. Such the Tao of growth, true growth.
More than iterating new skills, refining the old, but pushing boldly into the new, the unknown. This journey unpleasant, yet the destination glorious. This the lesson of every great story.
I’ve not been happy with the Blogger platform for quite some time. Well, this weekend I was finally able to do something about it. As I really love WordPress, I decided that needs to be the platform for my personal site as well. So, here we go.
Using the Lifestyle Theme, I was rather pleased with the results. There were several challenges, with the whole project. My greatest aggravation was patience. After all, it sometimes takes 72 hours for DNS updates to fully populate. When some elements start showing up instantly, though, I can lose sight of the fact that everything might not be done.
So, here’s the new site. Let me know what you think.