Glorious day.. did very little.. just wrote some code to make a movie of about 3000 pictures of folks at work..    Mid day, Diane and I got out with the dogs for a snowshoe with the dogs. We climbed up a ridge in Honey Hollow… it was beautiful.. about 3 feet of snow everywhere… weather in the mid 20’s.. it doesn’t get better than that..

While we were walking I was telling Diane about the meeting I attended yesterday in NY.. I was really taken by one of the things our senior leaders said in his talk.. he talked about ‘making space’ to think. I took his point to be that sometimes we get overly focused on fighting the wrong battle .. in doing that we can sometimes spend all of our time knocking our heads against a wall and  exhausting  ourselves   as we continue to try and do the thing we’ve always done. He said that sometimes we need  to ‘make some space’   to step back away from the struggle  we’ve been locked in, reduce the clutter in what we’re doing, think clearly then act with a more clear and longer term intent..    He was talking about a specific set of challenges at work.. .. but I am taking it as a more general suggestion… I like it.. and I’m going to try approaching the next few weeks like that. I’ll let you know how it goes !.

night all.. nite sam

-me