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4月7日 Refocusing on What is ImportantLately it has all been about work. I've not meant it to be that way, but work started to demand it, and I obliged. Thing is, now that I have day or two to breathe, I realize I have a choice. Keep at the current pace, or re-evaluate things.
Between Mid-Year Review Discussions for my team, bringing on new members, helping some others out the door to better things, FY08 planning, etc. the last several months have been taxing. I didn't really know how much until I got sick several weeks ago and could not afford a single day of recovery. Woking full speed ahead whle sick ran my narrow white arse into the ground. On Monday I had a presentation to give in the morning, and almost puked several times before the meeting began. I looked like I was about to take a dirt nap, and was told after the meeting to get the hell out. I took 1.5 days as sick, but still looked at emails.
Habits die hard. But I did get some rest. Not enough, but it helped me do the rest of the week in fine form. But I realize that I have to go into next week, and the next few months putting work high on my list, but rebalancing things as well. It is finally good weather time in the greater Seattle area, and I must take advantage of that. I have to make time to finish an oil painting that got put away a year ago... to both finish the darn thing and because it is good for my soul to paint. I need to spend more time with my kids: dinner around the TV, trips to WalMart, and reading bedtime stories is not enough. My speical friend, mate, Friend w/Benefits, or whatever you want to call the person that lives with me and co-raises our kids deserves some focus. I think we have forgotten how to date? Good thing we are such good friends - we don't have a problem, but I don't want one to creep up on us either.
I even need to walk the dogs more. I need to re-loose the 15 pounds I gained back after loosing them last summer. I need to buy a freezer and fridge for the office so I can institute early happy hours at week's ends.
If that means that I slow my career growth down by 20%, well, so be it. I have no aspirations to be the biggest of cheeses anyway, and I am not sure that my last few months of work really make me stand out as something special anyway. Of course I do not want to stall my career, I just need to think about its velocity and ensure that both it AND my life have good momentum.
Otherwise I'll just end up taking a big dirt nap. So - hold me to it: if you see me, and I look like work is the big thing in my life, tell me to piss off to help me break the trend.
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