Yearly Archives: 2008

“We’ve Never Done That Before”

My older son said just last night that it doesn’t feel like Christmastime. I was surprised, because we had been in heavy traffic, looking for parking spaces at busy shopping centers, and waiting in long lines to buy things in crowded stores. Christmas lights are on many homes and businesses, and people have dressed their SUVs and minivans as Rudolph. I asked what he meant.
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Full Circle

I joined the Fast Track Your Dream program (now called the Changing Course Club) in January 2007, nearly two years ago. I had been following Valerie Young’s Changing Course newsletter for quite a while. I almost signed up for the first group she trained to be Outside-The-Box Career Consultants. But I backed out. I didn’t want to spend the money. I joined Fast Track instead to learn more about Valerie’s approach by experiencing it. Two years later, I finally made the real choice.
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What Just Happened?

My plan to return to posting this blog on Fridays ran into my busy schedule. Friday I was on a field trip with my younger son’s class, then taking him to the pre-test session for Tae Kwon Do before rushing to try to see part of my older son’s soccer game. Saturday we had the belt test, then another soccer game, followed by my younger son’s family birthday dinner. Although my schedule was packed full and time for my business seemed squeezed out, I found myself On The Twisting Road anyway.
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Back to School?

On Saturday I accompanied my older son to a preview event at the nearby University of North Texas. It’s one of the options he’s considering so he wanted to learn about the programs they offer. He filtered all the information through the high school senior’s lens, the one that wonders if there’s an easier degree or a more enjoyable campus. He was interested but not impressed. I heard everything as a person who loves personal development and creative career opportunities so I was excited.
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Winning and Losing and Ultimate Goals

This weekend my parents joined my sons and me for an out of town trip. My older son had soccer games Saturday and Sunday for a Premier League featuring interstate competition for the top teams in each state association. The good news was I got to leave behind that danged clutter that I’ve committed to face little by little each day. The strange news is the weekend was so much about winning and losing, and why it ever matters, that it shook up my thinking about growing a small business.
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Self-Discovery Is A Moving Target

I’m about halfway through the “Find Your True Calling” study group in the Fast Track Your Dream program. We have reading and exercises to do every week to learn more about our natural gifts, talents, and passions, so I’m getting used to being surprised by some of my own responses. But I wasn’t ready to be so surprised when answering questions from a different source about my creative career change.
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Living The Metaphor

I live in a culture where “living the dream” is one of the top marketing themes, combining greed, sloth, and selfishness in one tale. We see images of people dressed to the nines sipping champagne in limousines, then barely dressed on yachts and beaches showing off toned bodies and well-hidden plastic surgery. Our avatars ride zip lines through rain forests and dive off cliffs into tropical oceans. They eat exotic food served with pyrotechnic displays and dance under the moonlight. They have freedom and adventure and worry-free living, and we think we want to be them. But instead of living the dream, the best I can do is live the metaphor.
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