Thursday, December 28, 2006
2007
So Christmas is over and the new year is on its way. What will the new year bring? I am on my way to losing the 50lbs I want to loose. I am hoping to be home by June or August the latest. Will 2007 be a good year? Who knows. My hopes are high but according to my friends I am an optimist.
Sunday, December 03, 2006
The Journey
A poem written by John McLeod states that, "It's the journey that's important, not the getting there!" I have never thought about this same concept more than I have this past weekend. I have come to realize that on my journey lately I dont feel like I am driving my car. I am being driven and I am lost.
This past weekend I attended a Leadership conference for the company where I work. This is a very large Fortune 500 company with a lot of opportunity for growth and promotion. Being there this weekend I met several colleagues who work at their career. I dont mean they work at their job. They work at their career. They network. They go places they know senior management will be and introduce themselves. They talk about their recent success stories and make themselves known. They volunteer to be on committees and boards to not only help others but for some self promotion as well. They work at their career. I dont do this at all. I go to work everyday for long hours and I do a good job. I always thought, in a naive way, that you get noticed and promoted this way. This is really not the case. So the question I found myself asking this weekend was, do I want to make business, my career? If I do then am I willing to work at my career?
The other great love in my life is baking. I love to bake. I am not just a "Mom baker." Someone who bakes cookies for the PTA. Nothing wrong with this baker at all, in fact that is how I got my start. I love to bake rich cakes and tortes. If the recipe looks complicated then I want to try it and change it. I have recently been thinking of opening my own bakery. I would like to leave my job and use my 401K funds to start this business. On my recent business trip I drafted a beginning business plan and began to see what all of this would take to complete. It is a very lofty goal. It will take more money then I have saved and it will take every ounce of my time. Still this is something I think I want to do at some point.
To add more complication, I still would like to move back home. The good thing is I can still stay with the company I work for now and move back home. They have offices all over the United States. I can also move home and find a very busy location for my bakery. I am also in a difficult point in my personal life. My life lacks passion, in all forms. I lead more of an apathetic existence and I dont like it at all. This is not what I thought my personal life would be like 13 years ago. I need to make some changes to find passion in my life again. I know myself well enough to know that without it, I will never be happy.
So, "It's the journey that's important, not the getting there!" I am not sure what I have learned so far on this journey but I am hoping that somewhere a light will shine and let me know that I am headed down the right path. I hope not to be too lost for too long.
This past weekend I attended a Leadership conference for the company where I work. This is a very large Fortune 500 company with a lot of opportunity for growth and promotion. Being there this weekend I met several colleagues who work at their career. I dont mean they work at their job. They work at their career. They network. They go places they know senior management will be and introduce themselves. They talk about their recent success stories and make themselves known. They volunteer to be on committees and boards to not only help others but for some self promotion as well. They work at their career. I dont do this at all. I go to work everyday for long hours and I do a good job. I always thought, in a naive way, that you get noticed and promoted this way. This is really not the case. So the question I found myself asking this weekend was, do I want to make business, my career? If I do then am I willing to work at my career?
The other great love in my life is baking. I love to bake. I am not just a "Mom baker." Someone who bakes cookies for the PTA. Nothing wrong with this baker at all, in fact that is how I got my start. I love to bake rich cakes and tortes. If the recipe looks complicated then I want to try it and change it. I have recently been thinking of opening my own bakery. I would like to leave my job and use my 401K funds to start this business. On my recent business trip I drafted a beginning business plan and began to see what all of this would take to complete. It is a very lofty goal. It will take more money then I have saved and it will take every ounce of my time. Still this is something I think I want to do at some point.
To add more complication, I still would like to move back home. The good thing is I can still stay with the company I work for now and move back home. They have offices all over the United States. I can also move home and find a very busy location for my bakery. I am also in a difficult point in my personal life. My life lacks passion, in all forms. I lead more of an apathetic existence and I dont like it at all. This is not what I thought my personal life would be like 13 years ago. I need to make some changes to find passion in my life again. I know myself well enough to know that without it, I will never be happy.
So, "It's the journey that's important, not the getting there!" I am not sure what I have learned so far on this journey but I am hoping that somewhere a light will shine and let me know that I am headed down the right path. I hope not to be too lost for too long.
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