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Monday, June 4, 2012

Completion Without an Ending

Monday, June 4th, 2012 ???, NS, JoTD, AAD


Rise later then normal, closer to 6:45.  The late night and long weekend took their toll.  I'm also very sore from the combination of the Friday workout and the weekend of pallet moving and deconstruction, therefore, no morning workout planned.  This is fine, since I really didn't take a physical break this weekend.


In to work and preparing for the day.  Finding both feet on the floor, rather than in their normal "wrapped-around-the-chairleg" mode.  Still carry-over from the course which, with some attention, I should be able to maintain.

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A fundamental question for my everyday worklife: how to adequately prepare the day or week, while still remaining available for the inevitable changes in plans?  Even beyond this, with the constantly changing landscape of work, how to provide a sense of completion, even when something nearing its end is halted for a new priority?  I sense in this one of the keys to my (and my team's) success and well-being.

To put it another way: An ending can be a finish, a conclusion or a completion.  Can we have a completion without actually ending something?

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AAD practice completed (notes are here), full list of repertoire for the 6/9 taping posted, with above/below the line recommendations.  I don't have a good handle on the flow (building tempos, piece-to-piece communication, etc.), so I'll have to leave that to Dev and Victor.

Begin a download, and to bed.