A few thoughts on the day.
Just updated the vlog
A few thoughts on the day.
Category: Personal Reflections
Lessons learned about life; pearls of wisdom I’ve gleaned through pain, failure and honest reflection
My theme song for the week
Pretty trippy and weird. Which fits my mood of late. Plus, well, it really is nice weather for ducks.
My Storify of the #WAWind Storm
Autumn 2016’s First Storm Of The Season
https://storify.com/carlsetzer/washington-windstorm-october-2016
Inspirational, Aspirational & Grounded
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.
Thoughts on living, facing challenges
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.
Just Updated My Site
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.
Knee-jerk reactions
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Today’s Haiku: Potential Energy
Stand upon the edge
Potential lying down there
Change energy: jump
Today’s Meditation: Gratitude
I need to reclaim my focus on gratitude and service. It’s so easy to lose sight of this, with our focus on the individual, on entitlement. I see so much energy on getting what’s deserved we lose sight of what we can do. Who can we serve? What can I do to make the world better?
I’m grateful for my family, for that kind of love. It’s easy to get caught up in the challenges, though, and forget that all things fade. What’s here, right now, relentlessly shifts to memory. Keep the mind here; don’t miss this.
Far too easily I mentally wander into entitlement. Resenting other’s gifts, successes, and foci. Sadly, looking back, I spend far too much time in this soul-robbing state. Wallowing within misery, losing touch with my gifts, my talents. So easy too sink into resentment, where mindfulness and focusing on contribution bring joy. Seeing what I can do, and fo well brings a far happier and effective mental state.
Living gracefully
So easy to lose myself
Gratitude focused
Thought of the day: discipline
Discipline is not about deprivation,
Rather, it’s about focus and control
Distilling the important from the buzz
Of distraction by manufactured want
And knowing our dreams and goals
Then driving towards them with passion