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Annual Review 2019
2019 was a crap year, and I'm glad to see the end of it. There were some great big victories in my business, and I'm proud of what I accomplished; but there were a lot of challenges with my health, teaching me lessons I wasn't quite ready to learn. Annual Review Table of Contents My #AnnualReview consists of 4 parts: What were my victories? What could have gone better? How many New Year’s Resolutions did I keep? What are [...]
Befriending My Illness
I was completely unable to work. My fatigue had been keeping me from concentrating all morning, and the symptoms of my illness - bloody, uncomfortable, and draining - had been steadily increasing over the past two weeks. I gave up trying to function, and went into the backyard to sit with a cup of tea and ask myself what to do next. The vista was amazing. We live right next to the wilderness, and I watched birds fly around me [...]
September Springtime
I'm still disoriented by the seasons in the Southern Hemisphere. September is the start of Spring in New Zealand, and after the long winter, I'm enjoying the warmer days and brighter skies. We Sprang Forward at the beginning of the month, while my North American friends will Fall Back 4 weeks later. So our time difference has temporarily shortened from 5 hours difference PT / 8 hours difference ET. Right now it is 4 / 7 hours off, and next [...]
A month of catching up
The month started with a cancelled flight. I was in Denver, across the world from my family, at the NSA #Influence19 conference. The trip went great, I made a lot of top-notch connections, and stayed over an extra day after the conference ended to catch up on client work. When it was time for me to depart, the first leg of my 3-flight was cancelled, so I thought I had an extra day to catch up on client work. But [...]
From Winter to Summer and Back Again
Directly after I wrote about the Darkest Days of the Year, my experience of this year's winter in the Southern Hemisphere, I spent two weeks working from bed with a winter flu. Then, as soon as I recovered, I flew to the Northern Hemisphere for a week of summertime. I didn't know I was going north for this trip. One of my clients is Mike Rayburn, the motivational comedian with guitar who was the co-chair for the US National Speakers [...]
Darkest Days of the Year
June was an exciting month. We experimented with celebrating American Father's Day in New Zealand. The timing worked great, with Johanna's dad visiting us this month. Her mom visited last month for Mother's Day, and we got her dad here for Father's Day, too. In New Zealand, Father's Day is in September. We played with the idea of celebrating Father's Day twice, because when we lived in Costa Rica, they celebrated Mother's Day on a different day than the US, [...]