Of late I real desire to unplug from all of this, no doubt the fallout from two weeks of crash mentoring/follow-up at the hands of my predecessor who has now returned to Africa. She's become a friend these past months but the mentoring gets to be a bit much and I'm talked out halfway through her visits. This was the last one for awhile so I shouldn't have to deal with feeling this way again any time soon. I'm anxious for her arrivals but also anxious for her to leave by the time it's all over.
This is a very challenging case, for a lot of reasons I won't get into here. It makes the case more difficult than it should be. I've done my best to improve this through direct action and by modeling (which is not the same as providing instruction) a better way to go about things. I think I've begun to see improvements where I need them and like most change it comes about slowly. If the proverbial wheel continues to turn for the better I'll provide some positive reinforcement, bearing in mind that that trumps negative most of the time. There are time critical issues at play here but I hope to get good results in my allotted term of service. I'm not sure what I'll do after this is over or where I'll go but it's a question I've begun to address and I'll have a plan in place before long I imagine.
I'm making better use of my time and as training hard as I can. I'm running regularly again. I finished my first half marathon almost two weeks ago. It went terribly but I did finish and considering I only started running again two weeks prior I guess I don't have much to complain about. It forced me back into the thick of things so I decided to add weight training into the mix as well. I've got a good powerlifting routine in place and I've begun to see results. I'm also in the water getting my swim on when I can. I write this and it gets me down because I realize that despite keeping busy with things there are so many more things I could be doing and making better use of time. Just gotta keep plugging.
I'm getting a lot of reading in also. I've finished five books since September and I'm working on two more.
I'm taking a block of time off in two weeks and heading to Lombok. That's an island close to Bali and I'll be spending a four day weekend there during American Thanksgiving. I just had the time off and decided I wanted to get away. The ticket round trip was less than $150 and Lonely Planet found me a hotel for $42/night. I'll be packing a lot better than I did for the Bali trip though. I haven't started to look at what I'm going to do when I'm there but some surfing, running and maybe a hike sound like a reasonable way to spend the weekend.
I want to be in the moment but I don't want to stand still either.
This is a very challenging case, for a lot of reasons I won't get into here. It makes the case more difficult than it should be. I've done my best to improve this through direct action and by modeling (which is not the same as providing instruction) a better way to go about things. I think I've begun to see improvements where I need them and like most change it comes about slowly. If the proverbial wheel continues to turn for the better I'll provide some positive reinforcement, bearing in mind that that trumps negative most of the time. There are time critical issues at play here but I hope to get good results in my allotted term of service. I'm not sure what I'll do after this is over or where I'll go but it's a question I've begun to address and I'll have a plan in place before long I imagine.
I'm making better use of my time and as training hard as I can. I'm running regularly again. I finished my first half marathon almost two weeks ago. It went terribly but I did finish and considering I only started running again two weeks prior I guess I don't have much to complain about. It forced me back into the thick of things so I decided to add weight training into the mix as well. I've got a good powerlifting routine in place and I've begun to see results. I'm also in the water getting my swim on when I can. I write this and it gets me down because I realize that despite keeping busy with things there are so many more things I could be doing and making better use of time. Just gotta keep plugging.
I'm getting a lot of reading in also. I've finished five books since September and I'm working on two more.
I'm taking a block of time off in two weeks and heading to Lombok. That's an island close to Bali and I'll be spending a four day weekend there during American Thanksgiving. I just had the time off and decided I wanted to get away. The ticket round trip was less than $150 and Lonely Planet found me a hotel for $42/night. I'll be packing a lot better than I did for the Bali trip though. I haven't started to look at what I'm going to do when I'm there but some surfing, running and maybe a hike sound like a reasonable way to spend the weekend.
I want to be in the moment but I don't want to stand still either.
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