As I proceed into this 13th year from this office, with only mandatory travel, and extensive use of myriad electronic connections, I find long established relationships overcome distance and time easily. Actually they make the process more effective, efficient and fulfilling for all parties so engaged, and surely for me. I am completely into the 7th phase of my working career, collaborating, integrating, and anticipating with select very strong partnership arrangements. I’m focusing on helping others, in their fullest selves, develop on-going leadership capacities, in their own staffs. This is much more “future” oriented, on top of my huge experience base. There’s a huge calling for this interaction! We all should have started years ago!…..But “doing the work” seemed to get in the way for some of us. Now, leadership must be “Bolted to the Work!”, both getting done well, simultaneously. Well,…actually leadership needs to lead even in this coupling. You’ll find tons of insights, born of experience, on this website, the “Magic” so to speak, especially in the protected areas which require my approval for access.
Took a month off , using only my iPhone6 & iPad air, to stay connected, but not as intensely focused as usual. Interesting lessons for me!……and as signs of Spring occasionally show here on Cape Cod, I feel that traditional urge for new growth & outreach… and critical review of lots of things I was doing, worrying about!! In a few days we will celebrate 13 full years in this wonderful location, and are looking forward to many more… even more happily and productively!!!
One of the documents I call “Posters”, Post 418 Master List 10-4-16 – E.V’s-Exercises- Games, Etc., [ there are perhaps a thousand!!] contains c. 160 choices/options for lead facilitator’s use, as best fits that group of participants, in that customised cycle of the LLF process. Select forum facilitators have access personally.
I’m expanding on the list just now, explaining the use/rationale for each, one by one[ likely a lifetime project]. But fun for me/useful to others, perhaps.
My website is back intact, and I will now re-focus on what is the intent of this 7th phase of my life! Very happy to be back @ work @ that!!
Forecast of 2-5 inches actually kept on to c. 14 inches. And cold, i.e., c. 15 degrees. Really like my life in the Chicago area. Serious mobility challenge for 30 to 48 hours. Now OK, but very different. Getting lots of house /desk work done. Hopeful of a return to normal soon. And to work out the future of my evolving website, which is essential!!
Was forecast as 2 inches, raised to 5……actually pretty, but reminds one, why so many Cape Cod residents go south for 3 – 6months. The swans are indistinguishable from clumps of snow on our dammed-up river. Prompts memories of when I was very small, and relished waking to a fresh white cover over everything!!.It’s usually gone here, within 24 hours or so! Which is lucky, ’cause Cape Cod is not so good as, say, Chicago, @ handling accumulated snow. But so far today it’s fun to watch…..and remember other joyful times…….so, as we edge into 2017, may this year bring you, and yours, enough Peace, Joy, Physical and Spiritual Stamina, for whatever future might evolve!!
STILL IN PROCESS- as of Wednesday 1/4/17
A LEARNING EXPERIENCE
The recent election, before, during, and now afterwards, provoked these questions for many of us, suggesting the personal habit of reviewing that set, critically, periodically, is crucial….. A life long activity. Likely never finished, given the changes and challenges we all face these days. Not only in this country but the world… So I have begun a complete examination for myself, considering first, what I believe my own principles of living are now, what they might, could become, before I judge what others believe theirs are. A daunting, challenging process. Likely will take awhile. especially interacting, in a civil dialogue, with some of the vast number of people who were surprised/missed/ are upset or worried/can’t accept, what we have been witnessing for some time…so I can reshape my own habits of learning, questioning, absorbing…….and help others do the same, if they too, think it’s important for themselves!!
From very young, I always loved the Fall. Maybe it’s Chicago’s best time…the “Indian Summer” weeks. In New England, it’s often a big deal for “Leaf
Peepers” to travel on back roads, around small towns, to enjoy the vibrant foliage. We just did that in the historic Hudson Valley for four days, not crowded…….spectacular warm, sunny days…history…. quaintness, surprises…actually bought many things on sale?!?!?…… and had marvelous meals, more happily served, & @ far less $ than Boston , or Chicago, or N.Y, city restaurants.
And came home to similar beauty/enjoyment/peace [photo on the left]!!. Nice to be away from keyboards, television, newspapers, urgency everywhere, and to bring some back to keep here!
I accidentally deleted [ while working on improving the protected areas on the site] this fundamental list (post-90a-learning-to-lean) – a basic to the LLF Process- and was distraught….but luckily was able to access an old version of the Posters I sent to a client, and retrieve it!
So then I studied it….kind of like “finding the lost sheep”, and was astounded @ how relevant/provocative, actually fresh, it was. Thought I knew it all already, of course…..a deep lesson again!!
None of us is ever finished learning. Click on it and ponder!?! then use the worksheet (post-90b-worksheet) to add some of your own tactics…likely a habit we should all focus on as we age!!!
It’s been over twenty years since one really landed here , so maybe it’s time…and other areas have been warned, well and then. hit hard. But here it didn’t materialize much more than an impending storm. So worry/listen /prepare for nothing.??….. well…better than no notice and lots of damage/discomfort!! Likely coming AI, though hard to feel it now in our daily lives, must be prepared for, understood re, options, reach, and disruptions/and surely as the weather changes, AI will be increasingly a major and visible/unexpected part of all our lives. Seek it out personally. It’s already here to stay.
Kevin Kelly’s recent book “The Inevitable”, referenced on several of my below comments, was often quoted in a provocative article about AI, in www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets….. on 7/26/2016….”there has never been a better time, with more opportunities, more openings, lower barriers, higher benefit/risk ratios, better returns, nor a greater upside than right now!”
WOW..a huge statement by a famed author in our field!!
The article points out that advanced AI is the only way we can make sense of the overload of the data we are bombarded with today, and adds to the technologies that are advancing so fast, and possibly helping…[referenced below]…several more that are moving very fast…..Solar, block-chain, online education, on top of….. – mobile, social, “pocket doctor”, cloud…….!!…..
Who isn’t overwhelmed………… perhaps the young…..as always. So, there’s hope then, too, as always!!! so what do you think…. or feel??
