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I completed my first trip of the year to Home Depot. I had to grab some plumbing supplies to repair the drain for my bathroom sink. This is sure to be the smallest and least expensive of our home maintenance tasks this year. Especially with the need to replace our roof this year.
Look back in memory and consider…how many have robbed you of life when you were not aware of what you were losing, how much was taken up in useless sorrow, in foolish joy, in greedy desire, in the allurements of society, how little of yourself was left to you; you will perceive that you are dying before your season!
Seneca, ‘On the Shortness of Life’
I’ve been using the Monk Manual Weekly Planner, an analog tool that includes monthly and weekly “prepare” pages for setting intentions with “reflect” pages for weekly retrospectives. This year, I plan to scan these pages and upload them to my Day One journal. It feels like the perfect balance: staying hands-on with my planning and reflections while preserving a digital archive for future reference.
Finished reading: Flourish by Martin E. P. Seligman 📚
Watching The Perfect Couple on Netflix. 📺
Watching Shrinking (Season 1). Started it quite a few months back but haven’t picked it back up until now. 📺
I was using dictation on my phone and “wind gusts” showed up in my message as “Nguyen Gus” which I now think should be the name I assign to my alter ego. Although, given that Nguyen is most typically a surname, perhaps “Gus Nguyen” is more appropriate.
At the close of business today, I’ll be taking time off until after the new year. I was feeling pretty good about that fact and looking forward to some much-needed downtime. But I just learned that when I come back to work after the holidays, I’ll have about a week and a half to prepare a presentation that I will deliver to our chief growth and innovation officer and other senior leaders. All of a sudden I’m starting to doubt whether I’ll actually be able to relax and be fully unplugged from work over the next two weeks.
