Musing

when I walked last light it struck me how quickly spots of yellow here & orange there gave way to a flourish of fall colour; 4C this morning, FRESH, cloudy with sunny breaks – dog romps;

I slept so soundly . . feeling great but moving slow & already several calls interrupted this + an email from someone wondering where their musing is

good discussion last night; notwithstanding smart people each using words of clear meaning – left each of us thinking we were communicating effectively; then realizing validation the other person ‘gets our meaning’ was absent . . .

is that it ? . . is confirming someone understands our message as important as the message ?

maybe caring to confirm is the key ?

or, an indicator of how much priority we attach to it

I did a policy development & planning workshop for a new organization where I was a board member; our facilitator gave us an imaginary dollar to spend, the rule being we could spend no more than 50 cents on any one priority, no less than 5 cents on anything; the result was that many things just were not important enough to spend anything on it

today would be a good day to use that technique with the mountain [ok, maybe a foothill] on my desk . . how many priorities can I truly effectively handle in one 1 day ? . .

spoke to both KT & SC yesterday; both out of touch too long - nice to catch up

Mark

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