This is Life!

I did some reality checks and asked myself a few questions: When or in what role do you feel most challenged. Do you like it that way. What role is getting the easiest to handle - would it be good if that was challenged.

Turns out in the current snapshot I feel most challenged at work doing whatever I am responsible for. Next in line as a mother - trying to do the best for my child's overall development. The lesser challenged role is that of a wife, a daughter-in-law and even lesser than all is that of a daughter. My list looks just so right - as of now - cos I do want to feel challenged both at work and as a mother. Two areas that I really want to and try to do my best. The well-formed and set roles don't need much effort.
I also feel relatively pressurized with maintaining some friendships which get really difficult to maintain and nor can I break them and walk away easily. But these are clearly not true friends that I care for genuinely - else I wouldn't have felt that I'm burdened with them.
Time that I spent on each of these roles is also so much in line with the need.
Overall I'm quite glad with the statistics that I put on paper while doing these. But life isn't all numbers - is it! It's just my brain that can think better in numbers :-)

water all overthe city.. most under bridges are full of water and most over bridges are under water. hubby stranded in office and me back early from work.

hope he's able to come home tomorrow!!

Words of honourable men and women..... I realize often that I am such a quotes person!

I had to make this presentation at work on team work, thought leadership, collaboration, trust and the like.. I put in SIX quotes in 8 slides. Now that's really going overboard I think!

Putting a few that I really liked up here too..

“Most people don’t take the time to think. I made an international reputation for myself by deciding to think twice a week.”

"Nobody believes the official spokesman, but everybody trusts an unidentified source."

"This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it."

“You’re either part of the solution or part of the problem.”

"Learn to love change. If you appreciate that as much good comes from change as bad, you will avoid the concerns that many people seem to have about it. Relax and be open to change when it visits."

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

"If at first an idea doesn't seem crazy, then there is no hope for it."

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

"Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use."

"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."

You decide what I'm saying even before I have said it
You decide what's in my mind and claim you know me too well
You decide what I should be talking when
You decide when we have a story
You decide when we become history
You decide when we are no longer together

Was there ever "US" or was it just "U" and "I"

Yes it was just you and me and we were destined to walk together for some time...

Thank you for your kindness - please let me go and breathe now!

my work place felt the need to inject me with a lot of management training - just when i decided to do some formal management course myself. so i have a lot of impressive stuff in my head - no rocket science as they say - but useful stuff for sure - specially in dealing with different kinds of people. And since it's a lot to contain in my head and i need to remind myself of the things that impacted me most - there isn't a better place to put it than my own weblog :-)

I'll be scribbling about the most recent thing learnt, in my next post - "Crucial Conversations" - Tools for talking when the stakes are HIGH.

till then i really liked this line :-)
"They had lived together for so many years that they mistook their arguments for conversation"