37 - New Way to Look at Life

"Management - In organizations, management is a function that coordinates the efforts of people to accomplish goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively.  It includes planning, organizing, staffing, leading or directing, and controlling an organization to accomplish the goal.  Resourcing encompasses the deployment and manipulation of human resources, financial resources, technological resources, and natural resources."  It's interesting.  I have long thought about life as a 'company', that I am the CEO and COO of my own little company - 'Me, Inc.'  And, from last week, something clicked in me - one of those components is Career Management; and on a sub-category of Career Management is Career Planning. Today, my thought is that maybe in the last 1/2 of my life I can make up for poor management of the first 1/2 of my life! At the same time, I realize that there was much I gained in the middle of poor management - just like I learned from poor managers, so to can I learn from poor management, and even better when it's mine!  We talked about how the education we get following high school sets the foundation for all that comes after, and the best foundation is usually a university degree as it keeps the most number of doors open for you after.  So, what did my degree contribute?  A way of thinking, that is not taught, encouraged and practiced in any of the other forms of higher learning.  I can live with that ... and I can build on that!

Moments of Gratitude for Today
1/ Today, I'm grateful to have made the cut ... out of 400, I was one of 35!  That alone, for me, was much to be grateful for!!!
2/ Today, I'm grateful for spending time with my finances and working on a game-plan when it comes to that area in sore need of management.
3/ Today, I'm grateful for the email from BB (now BR) from high school!!
4/ Today, I'm grateful for some really nice discussions with RA. It's nice to talk to her for a bit when she drives home.
5/ Today, I'm grateful for the small steps towards big goals that I made today.