Tuesday July 3rd, 2012, 194, NS, JotD, AAD 33
Rise at 5:45. Sitting, working with the theme of Goodwill (in addition to Intention and Presence). My sense of this is one of building, that Goodwill requires both to be true and honest. A delay getting out of the house (not due to inattentiveness for a change), and in to work.
Lashed to the desk longer than I intended this morning, addressing some overnight issues. Frustrating for me, even more frustrating for my development team.
Lower-body focus in the gym today:
- 1/4 mile run (10-minute pace)
- 3 rounds 10 dead-lifts w/35# & 45# KB
- 3 rounds single-leg stability 15 sec each leg
- 3 rounds calf raises 20 each legs
- 3 rounds 10 front squats w/20# & 25# KB
More focus on quality of form than maximum weight.
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Discussion this morning about a disconnect in the business process and how it affects us, as a downstream process. I can see the end-gaining going on: there is a lot of "doing" while acknowledging the problems. The business flow doesn't allow (or the perception is that it doesn't allow) a slow-down in order to make things more efficient. Fundamentally, things need to stop for a week, and allow people to regroup and call out the things that are making the job near impossible without a high level of constant heroics. A Kaizen event would be ideal, but I'm not sure I could convince peope to a) do the event, and b) follow up on the recommendations.
The very definition of involuntary suffering.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Monday, July 2, 2012
Monday
Monday, July 2nd, 2012, 193, NS, JotD, AAD 32
Rise at 5:45, shower, sitting and off to work. Found myself looping from the car to the house twice, as I forgot two things on the way out. Inauspiscious way to begin the day. More of a start really.
A crazy week for looking forward and back:
- Potential news this week about the Higgs boson, aka why some things have mass
- A research team leaving for a small island in the Pacific, with a strong lead that they have found where Amelia Earhart was stranded after crashing
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A good morning workout, very upper-body focused:
3 times through:
5 presses each arm (35# KB)
5 pull-ups
10 pushups (hands on medicine balls)
10 rows each arm (45# KB)
20 overhead swings (45# KB)
I think this will be at least twice a week, with the Friday big workout as the third.
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Beginning the middle week of the AAD. I've been struggling with my capacity to learn new material. Part of this may be the time I approach it (evenings), part of it seems to be an internal limit. Looking for ways to improve this - a limited ability to read and "envision" the music feels like the the main things to address.
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Home. Tired. Practice. Play. Bed
Rise at 5:45, shower, sitting and off to work. Found myself looping from the car to the house twice, as I forgot two things on the way out. Inauspiscious way to begin the day. More of a start really.
A crazy week for looking forward and back:
- Potential news this week about the Higgs boson, aka why some things have mass
- A research team leaving for a small island in the Pacific, with a strong lead that they have found where Amelia Earhart was stranded after crashing
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A good morning workout, very upper-body focused:
3 times through:
5 presses each arm (35# KB)
5 pull-ups
10 pushups (hands on medicine balls)
10 rows each arm (45# KB)
20 overhead swings (45# KB)
I think this will be at least twice a week, with the Friday big workout as the third.
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Beginning the middle week of the AAD. I've been struggling with my capacity to learn new material. Part of this may be the time I approach it (evenings), part of it seems to be an internal limit. Looking for ways to improve this - a limited ability to read and "envision" the music feels like the the main things to address.
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Home. Tired. Practice. Play. Bed
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Thursday
Thursday June 28th, 2012, ???, NS, JotD, AAD 28, BTTHG C1
Rise at 6:40 - no gym this morning, as it's a day off. Shower, sitting and off to work. Presence is the Theme for this week, and a constant return to where I am in this moment. Easier said than done.
I was sick the past couple of days, so didn't go into work. Some time relaxing at home and being present. The Theme work helps, as I could work on Intention and Presence, rather than giving in to whatever bug was eating at me. Though I had to give into the bug occasionally. Today is a return to work, catching up and planning for the next week. We're still working to complete a few things that have lingered, and I have to be present to keep this from becoming a major frustration issue.
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I began reading Beelzebub's Tales... this week. I began this two years ago this week, and was unable to sustain it. Perhaps it wasn't the right time, and now is. I have a sense that in this particular 7 year cycle, I'm at the right place, and have built up the necessary capacity to approch this aspect of the Work again. We'll see - this time it has a sense of necessity, between the Guitar Circle courses, Enneagram work and contact with the Bennett group.
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Slogged through the day, rather unceremoniously. Sometimes you're all there, and sometimes you have to phone it in. Today was a telephone day. A two-cans-and-a-string-telephone day.
Home to a hungry wife, and out for dinner to Ted's. Then, over to Sephora, where our oldest nephew has started to work. It's his first "real" job, outside of wokring at various horse barns - a completely different experience. He's in his element though, and his artistic ability, as well as his social nature, seem to make this a good fit. we'll see how he likes the corporate world versus the barn world. Same politics in a different form.
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Now practice, some light gaming and to bed.
Rise at 6:40 - no gym this morning, as it's a day off. Shower, sitting and off to work. Presence is the Theme for this week, and a constant return to where I am in this moment. Easier said than done.
I was sick the past couple of days, so didn't go into work. Some time relaxing at home and being present. The Theme work helps, as I could work on Intention and Presence, rather than giving in to whatever bug was eating at me. Though I had to give into the bug occasionally. Today is a return to work, catching up and planning for the next week. We're still working to complete a few things that have lingered, and I have to be present to keep this from becoming a major frustration issue.
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I began reading Beelzebub's Tales... this week. I began this two years ago this week, and was unable to sustain it. Perhaps it wasn't the right time, and now is. I have a sense that in this particular 7 year cycle, I'm at the right place, and have built up the necessary capacity to approch this aspect of the Work again. We'll see - this time it has a sense of necessity, between the Guitar Circle courses, Enneagram work and contact with the Bennett group.
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Slogged through the day, rather unceremoniously. Sometimes you're all there, and sometimes you have to phone it in. Today was a telephone day. A two-cans-and-a-string-telephone day.
Home to a hungry wife, and out for dinner to Ted's. Then, over to Sephora, where our oldest nephew has started to work. It's his first "real" job, outside of wokring at various horse barns - a completely different experience. He's in his element though, and his artistic ability, as well as his social nature, seem to make this a good fit. we'll see how he likes the corporate world versus the barn world. Same politics in a different form.
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Now practice, some light gaming and to bed.
Monday, June 25, 2012
Monday
Monday June 25th, 2012, 193, NS, JotD, AAD 25
Wake at 5:45, rise at 5:55. Shower, sit and off to work. Still looking to maintain a sense of Intention as I leave the house - carrying last week's Theme from the AAD forward. The plan for the week is to build, carrying Intention and Presence forward, eventually building up to all seven of the principles for work in the circle. What if I could carry that through every day of my life?
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Wake at 5:45, rise at 5:55. Shower, sit and off to work. Still looking to maintain a sense of Intention as I leave the house - carrying last week's Theme from the AAD forward. The plan for the week is to build, carrying Intention and Presence forward, eventually building up to all seven of the principles for work in the circle. What if I could carry that through every day of my life?
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Friday, June 22, 2012
Friday
Friday June 22nd, 2012, 191, NS, JotD, AAD 22
Rise at 5:55, 10 minutes after the alarm. Curious how a small shift in time can have a larger impact later, unless one is very careful. Today I am able to manage this, keeping the theme of Intention in mind, and arrive at work at 7:00, even with the quick trip around the yard to check a couple of the plantings. Potatoes are taking off!
The schedule doesn't look too dramatic today, so I may be able to get all of my status and updates done by the time I leave. The plan is to have our Friday workout a bit earlier today, so we can begin the weekend a bit sooner. Looking forward to a break in the heat tomorrow.
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A reasonable day today, status reports & updates out to the various teams. A big milestone today with one of the more challenging projects, which will allow us to have a completion for a change. It is sad that this is the case - I'm constantly amazed at the resilience of the teams, despite the fact that there is no closure to these projects, no real way to acknowledge success (or failure) and move on.
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Friday workout was a good one:
Tabata sequence: 8 rounds of 20 sec work, 10 sec rest, do the most reps you can each round, score on the lowest number of reps in the 8 rounds
Dumbell rows (2 hands, 25#)
2 minute rest
Pushups 8 rounds of 20 sec work, 10 sec rest
2 minute rest
Dumbell squats (2 hands, 25#) 8 rounds of 20 sec work, 10 sec rest
16 minutes total - 10 rows, 6 pushups, 6 squats
Home to a nice weather weekend.
Rise at 5:55, 10 minutes after the alarm. Curious how a small shift in time can have a larger impact later, unless one is very careful. Today I am able to manage this, keeping the theme of Intention in mind, and arrive at work at 7:00, even with the quick trip around the yard to check a couple of the plantings. Potatoes are taking off!
The schedule doesn't look too dramatic today, so I may be able to get all of my status and updates done by the time I leave. The plan is to have our Friday workout a bit earlier today, so we can begin the weekend a bit sooner. Looking forward to a break in the heat tomorrow.
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A reasonable day today, status reports & updates out to the various teams. A big milestone today with one of the more challenging projects, which will allow us to have a completion for a change. It is sad that this is the case - I'm constantly amazed at the resilience of the teams, despite the fact that there is no closure to these projects, no real way to acknowledge success (or failure) and move on.
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Friday workout was a good one:
Tabata sequence: 8 rounds of 20 sec work, 10 sec rest, do the most reps you can each round, score on the lowest number of reps in the 8 rounds
Dumbell rows (2 hands, 25#)
2 minute rest
Pushups 8 rounds of 20 sec work, 10 sec rest
2 minute rest
Dumbell squats (2 hands, 25#) 8 rounds of 20 sec work, 10 sec rest
16 minutes total - 10 rows, 6 pushups, 6 squats
Home to a nice weather weekend.
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Derailed
June 21, 2012, ???, JotD, AAD 21
Rise at 6:15, feet on the floor. Sitting, shower and derailed on my way out the door. Into work and chasing down requirements for something due at the end of the month. Today's challenge: meeting an arbitrary deadline with no details as to what we need to do.
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So, I was derailed on the way out the door this morning. I reacted to something in a way I'm not particularly happy about. Implicit demands were being made of my attention, energy needing to be directed, appropriate sympathetic responses to other's work situation to be made - this despite clearly moving towards the door and my day. I couldn't break away from the need to leave for work, and I had a difficult time being engaged with what was being sent my way. So the end result was a terseness and sarcasm that may have been unwarranted, and comments that while not nasty, were not the sympathetic statements desired (or that I sensed were desired).
I can sense that this will govern the cycle of my day, if I let it. There is a part of me that senses I'm justified in being a bit angry about this. In fact, there is a part of me ranting about the unfairness of having other people's issues landed on me before I've even had a chance to get fully established in my day. Another part of me (the observer, and probably the part writing this), wonders if I was simply caught off guard, and the lizard-brain is responding. Am I reacting or responding? Is this a pure defense reaction, without control or reason, or is this a conscious response, protecting myself from a drain on my psyche.
Here are the fundamental problems: how do I know which is happening (the response or the reaction), and the rightness of either; how to address this with the person who needed something I wasn't able to give at the time; how to better equip myself to handle this in the future.
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Some commiserating at work about the derailment. I know this is universal, especially in long-term relationships. I know I am often doing the derailing, so I have a sense of the source. What bothers me is my own handling of things. In some sense, the "ideal" I have been taught is that of selflessnes and giving; the elevation of other's needs over my own. At what point do my own needs take precedence - to the point of anger?
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Somewhat back on track later in the day. I keep coming back to my feet on the floor, and what my intention is for the next meeting, hour, e-mail, whatever. Very instructive, as this helps dissipate.
Home to dinner, practice, gaming, a brief talk and bed.
Rise at 6:15, feet on the floor. Sitting, shower and derailed on my way out the door. Into work and chasing down requirements for something due at the end of the month. Today's challenge: meeting an arbitrary deadline with no details as to what we need to do.
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So, I was derailed on the way out the door this morning. I reacted to something in a way I'm not particularly happy about. Implicit demands were being made of my attention, energy needing to be directed, appropriate sympathetic responses to other's work situation to be made - this despite clearly moving towards the door and my day. I couldn't break away from the need to leave for work, and I had a difficult time being engaged with what was being sent my way. So the end result was a terseness and sarcasm that may have been unwarranted, and comments that while not nasty, were not the sympathetic statements desired (or that I sensed were desired).
I can sense that this will govern the cycle of my day, if I let it. There is a part of me that senses I'm justified in being a bit angry about this. In fact, there is a part of me ranting about the unfairness of having other people's issues landed on me before I've even had a chance to get fully established in my day. Another part of me (the observer, and probably the part writing this), wonders if I was simply caught off guard, and the lizard-brain is responding. Am I reacting or responding? Is this a pure defense reaction, without control or reason, or is this a conscious response, protecting myself from a drain on my psyche.
Here are the fundamental problems: how do I know which is happening (the response or the reaction), and the rightness of either; how to address this with the person who needed something I wasn't able to give at the time; how to better equip myself to handle this in the future.
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Some commiserating at work about the derailment. I know this is universal, especially in long-term relationships. I know I am often doing the derailing, so I have a sense of the source. What bothers me is my own handling of things. In some sense, the "ideal" I have been taught is that of selflessnes and giving; the elevation of other's needs over my own. At what point do my own needs take precedence - to the point of anger?
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Somewhat back on track later in the day. I keep coming back to my feet on the floor, and what my intention is for the next meeting, hour, e-mail, whatever. Very instructive, as this helps dissipate.
Home to dinner, practice, gaming, a brief talk and bed.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Mura, Muri, Muda Revisited
Wednesday June 19th, 2012, ???, NS, JotD, AAD 19
Rise, with Intention, at 5:45. Sitting, shower, and out to work. Second day that on the way out I lost the thread of the day before I even got to the Jeep. In to work, and on to planning the next phase of the project. We're at the requirements phase, and I need to draw out many of the details from the business owner. This is our normal way of operating: a one sentence statement becomes the basis for a development project, with the expectation that this one sentence is enough for us to work with. Unless this sentence is Joycian 30 page sentence, it is never enough. Such is the joy of project management and business analysis.
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Reviewing the 6-Sigma Voice of the Customer tools with our ITLP yesterday, and the slide on Mura, Muri, Muda came up again. A bit of a flash, and a thought occurred to me: if this is the definition of the three things we're seeking to address in a process:
Mura - Inconsistency
Muri – Overburdening
Muda – Non-value adding
I can see Guitar Craft/Circle analogues/aphorisms:
Muri – (Honor) Sufficiency
Muda – (Honor) Necessity
What then is Mura? Discipline? A consistent practice? Something that bears some thought, and finding the question that goes with it.
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Head home for the Wednesday night dinner, 9 in the house for the evening, including the Kalifornia Krew, my nephew and a visitor from Ireland. On the menu: tequila-lime pork carnitas, roasted potatoes, corn with lime & manchego. Watermelon and grapenut ice cream for dessert.
Pre-meal workout with Micah. No run today, but we did a cross-fit workout from one of the Friday sessions:
200 yard sprint
then 3x, all KB are 35#:
5 KB presses (each side)
10 KB rows (each side)
15 burpees
20 KB overhead swings
200 yard sprint
Both sucking wind by the end. Micah can blow by me in the runs, but I've got better KB mechanics, so I was done a bit ahead of him (on the 3.5 mile runs, he's well ahead of me). A good workout, made a bit tougher by the heat.
Dinner, good conversation, practice, and then to bed.
Rise, with Intention, at 5:45. Sitting, shower, and out to work. Second day that on the way out I lost the thread of the day before I even got to the Jeep. In to work, and on to planning the next phase of the project. We're at the requirements phase, and I need to draw out many of the details from the business owner. This is our normal way of operating: a one sentence statement becomes the basis for a development project, with the expectation that this one sentence is enough for us to work with. Unless this sentence is Joycian 30 page sentence, it is never enough. Such is the joy of project management and business analysis.
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Reviewing the 6-Sigma Voice of the Customer tools with our ITLP yesterday, and the slide on Mura, Muri, Muda came up again. A bit of a flash, and a thought occurred to me: if this is the definition of the three things we're seeking to address in a process:
Mura - Inconsistency
Muri – Overburdening
Muda – Non-value adding
I can see Guitar Craft/Circle analogues/aphorisms:
Muri – (Honor) Sufficiency
Muda – (Honor) Necessity
What then is Mura? Discipline? A consistent practice? Something that bears some thought, and finding the question that goes with it.
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Head home for the Wednesday night dinner, 9 in the house for the evening, including the Kalifornia Krew, my nephew and a visitor from Ireland. On the menu: tequila-lime pork carnitas, roasted potatoes, corn with lime & manchego. Watermelon and grapenut ice cream for dessert.
Pre-meal workout with Micah. No run today, but we did a cross-fit workout from one of the Friday sessions:
200 yard sprint
then 3x, all KB are 35#:
5 KB presses (each side)
10 KB rows (each side)
15 burpees
20 KB overhead swings
200 yard sprint
Both sucking wind by the end. Micah can blow by me in the runs, but I've got better KB mechanics, so I was done a bit ahead of him (on the 3.5 mile runs, he's well ahead of me). A good workout, made a bit tougher by the heat.
Dinner, good conversation, practice, and then to bed.
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