Keeping Pace

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one little word (2010)

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Different people have different approaches to kicking off the new year. It’s been a long time since I’ve referred to resolutions of any sort. Yet each year, the underlying question looms: What will I do differently this year?

In 2008, Jen (aka Positively Mom) first took on a one-little-word approach to the new year which she read about on Ali Edwards’ site. The basic idea is that you pick a single word to inspire you for the year. It is something you strive towards as the year progresses.

The moment I read about the one little word idea, I LOVED it. It’s simple and, at the same time, complex. It has the whole New Years’ Resolutions feel but without the long list of items you look at a year from now and come up with reasons why none of it happened. I’ve decided that I must take on the one little word approach too.

So…after much consideration, my little word of 2010 is: HEALTH (Physical, Mental, Spiritual, Financial…)

What’s your word for 2010?

Breath deep

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My thoughts have been suffering from a severe state of flightiness and irrational tendencies this week.  I blame it on a respiratory bug I’ve picked up in the final days of my time off.

As you may have know from your own experience with illness, returning to work in a state of hypoxia is not conducive to productive days.  Instead, I am left in a perpetual daze while sniffling, sneezing, stuffy head, fever…and spewing forth germs all over my colleagues.  Therefore…I took the day off.

While I am trying to work from home — because I have work to do, and I am salaried, which means nobody will do the work that was assigned to me because, let’s face it, they have their own work to do — I am not actually accomplishing much of anything work wise.

It doesn’t help that everything (the medicinal compound, protocol template, company policies) are NEW to me.   Even the version of MS Word that I’m working with is new. Here I am, lost a NyQuil daze, sucking on throat lozenges, sipping on tea, and getting nothing done.

It’s a beautiful day outside, and I want so badly to lace up my shoes, pull up my hair, and go for a run.  It’s been several days since I’ve been running.  If I was certain that running would help me to kick this illness into submission, I’d go for it — risking public humiliation of hacking and chucking pieces of lung along the way.  Unfortunately, I suspect the opposite will happen.  So, I am left to [attempt to] take a deep breath and attack my work once again.

um…

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I’m not sure what look they were trying to achieve. They’re kinda gangsta yet wearing BoBo’s vest and dress shirt

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