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Peak Haiku
Huge confidence-votes
Historical day at work
Wish to celebrate.
Two hours later...
Valley Haiku
Connecticut mourns --
My childhood-and-more state
-- Elementary.
Showing posts with label success at work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label success at work. Show all posts
Friday, December 14, 2012
Sunday, December 20, 2009
My Prescription for Happiness
The postings on this site are my own and don't necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies.
The Top 10 Ingredients
If I could follow this prescription, I am convinced that I would never feel depressed.
The Top 10 Ingredients
- Be helpful to someone else daily
- Stay connected daily with Pat and others among my family and friends
- Eat healthily -- I do so, except that I still eat a bit too much at meals occasionally
- See the humor in daily living and laugh daily
- Swim three times a week
- Blog twice a week
- Go to therapy once a week
- Do my best work and schoolwork and let go of perfect success
- Recognize my excellence while forgiving myself for my mistakes
- Leave room for serendipitous fun/culture/magic/adventure daily, even if it's just radio-music.
If I could follow this prescription, I am convinced that I would never feel depressed.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Had a Nice Day!
The postings on this site are my own and don't necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions.
Working, Swimming, Writing, Talking with Two Friends...
I could scarcely hope for more in a single day!
My morning began with an Indian friend and colleague, letting me know that the major projects I had come to India to help launch, and which she took on upon my departure, have now been selected as the way to go for all emerging markets. I had hoped that that would happen, and I felt so connected to her at that moment, and so much more effective about my time in India in hindsight than I think I could even see while I was there. A lot of it was about laying groundwork that people could build on beautifully.
Before leaving India, more than once, I told a couple of peers, whenever I succeeded in gaining buy-in for projects, my experience was that nothing major I had ever launched at IBM had been shut down; rather, it had just grown even bigger upon my moving on from it. I was trying to help them believe that the project I started during my short-term foreign service assignment was poised for success regardless of my day-to-day involvement, was trying to reassure them; in parallel, perhaps it sounded a bit arrogant, but I'm glad that I didn't speak falsely...at least given the news I received today.
It put me in a great, creative mood for the rest of the day.
At day's end, I spoke with a friend of mine, who was confined to a nursing home temporarily due to a stroke she had some months ago that left her temporarily, partially paralyzed. Speaking with her always made me feel better because she was inspirational. She survived breast cancer, a heart attack, stroke...and thank God, just kept going. I always thought of the power of the human spirit whenever we spoke. Oy, I didn't want that to sound patronizing.
And then I sang pop songs in my head while swimming hard, and after my chat with my friend this evening, I saw the nicely edited version of an article I was asked to write for my synagogue's newsletter, on Pat's and my experience in India. Once it's published, perhaps, I'll post it here, too.
Working, Swimming, Writing, Talking with Two Friends...
I could scarcely hope for more in a single day!
My morning began with an Indian friend and colleague, letting me know that the major projects I had come to India to help launch, and which she took on upon my departure, have now been selected as the way to go for all emerging markets. I had hoped that that would happen, and I felt so connected to her at that moment, and so much more effective about my time in India in hindsight than I think I could even see while I was there. A lot of it was about laying groundwork that people could build on beautifully.
Before leaving India, more than once, I told a couple of peers, whenever I succeeded in gaining buy-in for projects, my experience was that nothing major I had ever launched at IBM had been shut down; rather, it had just grown even bigger upon my moving on from it. I was trying to help them believe that the project I started during my short-term foreign service assignment was poised for success regardless of my day-to-day involvement, was trying to reassure them; in parallel, perhaps it sounded a bit arrogant, but I'm glad that I didn't speak falsely...at least given the news I received today.
It put me in a great, creative mood for the rest of the day.
At day's end, I spoke with a friend of mine, who was confined to a nursing home temporarily due to a stroke she had some months ago that left her temporarily, partially paralyzed. Speaking with her always made me feel better because she was inspirational. She survived breast cancer, a heart attack, stroke...and thank God, just kept going. I always thought of the power of the human spirit whenever we spoke. Oy, I didn't want that to sound patronizing.
And then I sang pop songs in my head while swimming hard, and after my chat with my friend this evening, I saw the nicely edited version of an article I was asked to write for my synagogue's newsletter, on Pat's and my experience in India. Once it's published, perhaps, I'll post it here, too.
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