Many of us spend a lot of time planning and scheduling the events of our daily lives. As long as I can remember, I always seemed to have some sort of plan to move forward, take vacations, or complete assignments, tasks, courses, or jobs. In fact, I actually made a career out of scheduling at one point, but that's a page from the past that I won't dredge up during this post.
If I can schedule and plan around all of the other career events, I'm sure I can squeeze a mid-life crisis into the mix. In past posts, I was starting to feel the aging process begin, but in the last year or two, the onset of the aging process has worn on me. Unlike the traditional symptoms of a mid-life crisis, I don't intend to buy a fancy car or go skydiving or bungee jumping.
My version of a mid-life crisis is a bit more cerebral. What happens when you achieve the original goals you set out to accomplish? Most of my career goals have been completed, and some of my retirement career goals are near completion. There comes a time when you know you've completed the course and the priorities that got you to a certain point no longer have that urgency they once had. So what do you do in that case? Normally, you make new goals based upon your current needs and ambitions, or remain complacent and lose part of the edge that got you to this point.
Since I really don't think it's time for me to lose the edge that got me to this point, I guess it's time to create some new career aspirations and maybe catch up on a few of those things that I missed a couple of decades ago. Time to start scheduling...
See ya.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Friday, August 8, 2008
End Of My Nose
I do seem to use a lot of old lines from movies, but it has worked for me in the past. I just figured - why stop now? This time I'm taking a page from Mary Poppins when I say that I've figured out that I can't see past the end of my nose. You see, we all tend to supplement that which is missing into our daily lives. When I think about the past week, which started when I went on a shopping expedition to buy a lot of toys and games for one of my volunteer projects, I finally realized what was missing.
I didn't think too much about it when one of the clerks asked me how many children I had. I said that I didn't have any children and left the store. Later in the week, I returned to another volunteer project playing games with kids at the children's shelter. I've been busy working with mentoring programs, and I just finished up at reception for a program that involves placement of interns. Was this an unusual week? Not really. I'm involved with mentoring programs and helping with children's programs all the time. That's when it hit me. I'm a corporate management type, and I spend the greater portion of my free time and extra funds on the kids and other related programs.
It's not like I'm planning on a major career or family change any time soon. Sometimes it takes someone to actually tell you what's missing for you to come to the realization that it's true. So even though there aren't any immediate plans, I'm no longer going to rule out changes to career or family. Vision really needs to extend beyond one's nose from time to time. See ya.
I didn't think too much about it when one of the clerks asked me how many children I had. I said that I didn't have any children and left the store. Later in the week, I returned to another volunteer project playing games with kids at the children's shelter. I've been busy working with mentoring programs, and I just finished up at reception for a program that involves placement of interns. Was this an unusual week? Not really. I'm involved with mentoring programs and helping with children's programs all the time. That's when it hit me. I'm a corporate management type, and I spend the greater portion of my free time and extra funds on the kids and other related programs.
It's not like I'm planning on a major career or family change any time soon. Sometimes it takes someone to actually tell you what's missing for you to come to the realization that it's true. So even though there aren't any immediate plans, I'm no longer going to rule out changes to career or family. Vision really needs to extend beyond one's nose from time to time. See ya.
Sunday, August 3, 2008
The Blogger Returns
During this last round of post-vacation work trauma, I seem to be shifting my priorities a bit. There was a time when I was just too busy to keep up with my various blogs. In the past year or two, I've fallen off a bit with my postings. I could blame it on the pressures of work, or the ongoing volunteer activities that have consumed a good portion of my time for the last few years. The real reason, though, is the fact that I really didn't think anyone wanted to listen, or at least read, the ongoing blathering of the days of my life. Based upon the comments, or lack thereof, it's quite obvious that I'm not breaking any records with audience numbers.
After reading a bit of my writings from this decade I began to realize that it's been a nice diversion for me, as well. So, it all comes down to this... (I knew I picked that title for a reason all those years ago). I'll return to my regular appearances here, and in many of my other haunts somewhere in cyberspace. I did seem to have my own brand of wit and wisdom in past years. This blogger has officially returned to active status. See ya.
After reading a bit of my writings from this decade I began to realize that it's been a nice diversion for me, as well. So, it all comes down to this... (I knew I picked that title for a reason all those years ago). I'll return to my regular appearances here, and in many of my other haunts somewhere in cyberspace. I did seem to have my own brand of wit and wisdom in past years. This blogger has officially returned to active status. See ya.
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