A month just came and went! So much has happened in my personal, professional, and academic life that I kept saying to myself at each milestone, "wow, I should blog that!" You can see how far that got.
Fortunately, my strongest strength, according to Strengths Finder is Futuristic. I'm pretty sure that was for a completely different context, but for a matter a convenience, I am unabashedly construing the original intent of that strength to justify saying that it was a great month and moving on. No guilt for just plopping photos and videos in Dropbox.com without further ado, and certainly no guilt for taking my blogging backlog and clicking delete. Ha! The rule of an organised individual for documenting one's life has been, once again, ignored.
*you can see how guilty I feel about not documenting because I can't shut up about the fact that it's all right not to document.....*
OK, clearly there is a checklist in my brain that is not letting me move on, so let's do a little reflection and see if I feel better.
Personal Life
I turned 35.
I'm worried about my friend.
Elle turned 7.
I have decided to become a worldwide hiker. (pretty excited ... more on this later)
Professional Life
I have enough clients that they are moving their schedules to accommodate mine. BOOYAH!
A challenging job that I took on is starting to see small quantitative effects and rewards already.
Academic Life
I SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDED MY DISSERTATION PROPOSAL! You know, every day stuff. WAIT, NO! SCREW THAT! I ROCK!!!! We're ignoring the next step of data collection until I'm ready to come off this little cloud of self-glory.
*wait one moment as I sit back and determine if I feel if this suffices for my lack of sharing cool things during the last month*
OK, I think the problem is that I'm not giving the attention to reflect on my personal life that I set out to do with this blog in the first place. Snicks Thoughtful Spot, after all, was named after Pooh's Thoughtful Spot in a massive effort to be willing to sit on a log and think. You know, just think. (Anybody who knows me also knows that I very much suck at this.)
As such, I am going to go back through some March spots that makes me smile and make sure I post on those.
And THEN! You will get the joy of finding out my new lifestyle. New mindset. Whatever. I know...this is not really surprising that I'm making another life change, but this is a more deep rooted change that I've been feeling over the last six months. A real transformation as I pull away the busy strands of life and become comfortable with myself......blah blah blah. Coming soon.
