As most of you know, the past few months have been at best, bedlam. With all the traveling, changing jobs, oh, and that wedding I had, I’m pretty much devoid of any sliver of what I used to do or be. Now the question is how to get back into the groove… or better yet, how do I make a new groove? Lets start there… and yes, I have a plan.
First, stop with all the weekend travel. It’s expensive and exhausting and its sucking up all my fun time. I’ve got a 4-wheeler I haven’t so much as cranked up in over a month, a yard that is about calf-deep in something with little purple flowers, and a garage that has gradually shrank by about 1/3 its size due to what needs to be stored or sold. My truck needs work, the house needs a pressure washing, and my better half I’m sure had a list the length of my arm of updates, upgrades, and general maintenance and repair for me. I need a few weekends at home to catch up.
Second, get organized and find that focus I used to have. This shouldn’t be too hard once step one has been instituted as household policy. Anyone have any pointers on organizing an entire house… scratch that… life? The Mrs. and I joke about picking up the house, shaking everything out the front door and starting over but I don’t think I’ve got enough upper body strength to do it IRL.
Third, learn to say no or change my number. This one is important. Both of us have a lot of friends with different schedules and loads of fun to be had. Once we get the weekend travel out of the way and get organized and focused, I guess we’re going to have to get a day planner, mark only a handful of days as “out” days and stick to it. Either that or hire a personal assistant. Yeah, one that also cleans and does laundry. That’s it! That’s how you make a new groove… You hire a personal assistant.
Anyone interested? Interns?
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For anyone living under rocks, Friday, September 18th, 2009 I got married to the most wonderful, hottest awesome girl out there. Needless to say the past few months have been out of control. Follow the wedding planning with a weekend in the woods then a fairly unique trip to Mexico and I’m about 15 blog posts behind… and that’s not even considering all I’ve got to catch up on with work, which oddly enough, is why I’m writing this. Welcome to my brain lube.
Who else had a great time this weekend? As many know and some were in attendance for, this weekend was the last hoorah for FMT and my self and I might have to concede defeat to the girls. My night out was actually an overnighter to my favorite woods and the girls did Dickson Street. Exact details on the Bachelorette party will have to come from Ryann but I am led to believe that there was a hospital visit made. Sorry Kim.
Truth be told it feels like it’s speeding up. We’ve got roughly 28 days until the wedding and we’re both weeded to no end. We’re getting things ironed out every day but the reality of our timeline is setting in. There are just a few little things that would be noticeable if we didn’t get to them. Like the cakes, do you think that anyone would really miss having cake at the wedding? I mean, we will have booze, isn’t that enough? No? Alright, it’s still on the list.
For those that don’t already know, I’m leaving J.B. Hunt. Collective Bias has asked me to be their creative director and you know I can’t pass that one up. I’ve already begun on some levels and am getting more involved in the start up process every day. Luckily the guys running the show are giving me all the connections I need to get the resources flowing early so that I can hit the ground at full speed on the 27th of this month.
Actually this change came from a necessity to organize and has been thought through on many levels as part of my personal growth plan. Quit smoking, get well, get organized, and care for family. This is part of the “get organized” section.
Today I took the Organizational Champions ECChO assessment to see where I measured up in the grand schema of it all in comparison to other champions. I’ll review my experience and results below but get to the gravy first. Here’s the link:
