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i am in the process of trying to make both a paper planner and a pda work for me. I like having annual remonders and addresses electronically, but there is something about writing things out by hand in my own handwriting that makes them seem so much more real to me.
Look forward to reading more of how you handle this...and by the way...sounds like a great workout too!
Hey Ross, good stuff! I use my PDA(Pocket PC) like a note pad that I can always refine, I will right down my ideas and thoughts then go through a process of refining them,I also use it as an E-book reader and a portable media player(movies mostly). I am seriously thinking of upgrading to a EEE PC( a very small fully functional laptop-about the size of a hard cover book). You could also use the hipster PDA, check out this sight- http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/03/introducing-the-hipster-pda People have also invented 1 page planners that you can print and fold.
Ross, I had no idea how far north in Alberta you were till I saw your pin on ‘my’ map. Wow!
Also, loved that post that was attributed to George Carlin, though he denies it’s by him. Apparently there’s a lot of stuff that gets forwarded attributed to him that is not his stuff.
Last week saw a big change in routine as I was in Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada) from Tuesday to Saturday. I attended a professional learning communities conference entitled ‘Whatever It Takes’, presented by Richard and Rebecca DuFour, Anthony Muhammad and Jim Pierce. The conference revolved around changing school and educator culture and moving both towards research-based action in a mutually accountable framework. The process and dynamics are very similar to what we find with MTM - a focus on results/data, attending to research, creating goals with actionable steps and doing all this within a context of sharing experience, what works and mutual success. It was a good conference. And, it was good to break from school life and routine.
Exercise while in Winnipeg - I was disappointed to find that what had be called an exercise room in my hotel was no more than an aerobic machine area. Life was getting in the way and I adjusted my exercise plan to incorporate hours and hours of walking. I got to know the downtown area of Winnipeg and Portage Avenue quite well.
Today is Chest, Back and LSB day.
Monday - Chest and Back
4 sets x 12 reps – Incline Bench Press – 100 lbs.
4 sets x 12 reps – Wide Grip Lat Pulldown – 120 lbs.
4 sets x 12 reps – Dumbell Bench Press – 2 x 50 lbs.
4 sets x 12 reps – Wide Grip Row – 120 lbs.
4 sets x 12 reps – Dumbell Flyes – 2 x 25 lbs.
4 sets x 12 reps – Close Grip Row – 120 lbs.
Monday - Long Slow Burn Stats
Time – 62 minutes
Equipment – Treadmill
Incline – 13%
Speed – 3.5 mph
Distance – 3.54 miles
Heart Rate – 129-142 bpm
Energy – 621 Calories burned
My week’s homework is done utilizing the FranklinCovey PlanPlus electronic Planner. I am still weighing out the idea of a PDA. I like the PlanPlus planner because it’s a flexible environment in terms of those aspects of goal-setting that Scott set out in the Goal-Setting Daily Boost – mission, values roles, goals, master tasks, daily tasks (and the ‘interdependence’ between these). I’m more on the learning curve (still) with the goal-setting experience. But, I think that once the information within the PlanPlus planner begins to gel, I’ll probably be aiming for a paper planner for its portability. Incidentally, the big reason I’m tackling all this is that I’d like to have all my planning in one place; throughout my years as a teacher all the information and considerations that I have as a teacher tend to be compartmentalized within my daily plan book and there’s little cross-pollination of information from outside school to the information I deal with within school ... if this makes sense? The big idea is to draw greater balance and cohesion into my life rather than working within compartmentalized existences. And, who knows … a strong sense of worth, efficacy, balance, happiness, gratitude may result with all this stuff that ‘we’ do.
The Upside of this week – we have a four-day work week. The downside … we may have parent-teacher interviews … hmmh. Ah well … a few extra endeavors. We’ll see.
“The most successful corporation of the future will be the learning organization.” – Senge
“Every enterprise has to become a learning institution [and] a teacher institution. Organizations that build in continuous learning in jobs will dominate the twenty-first century. - Drucker
Ross, I had no idea how far north in Alberta you were till I saw your pin on ‘my’ map. Wow!
Also, loved that post that was attributed to George Carlin, though he denies it’s by him. Apparently there’s a lot of stuff that gets forwarded attributed to him that is not his stuff.
Hope all is well with you.
-- Ann
Hey there, Ann:
High Level, Alberta is quite a ways North, it’s true and while being city-born and bred, I’ve grown used to Life up here in the last 20 years. George Carlin’s quote ... agreed, he may not have written in response to his wife’s death. The key there was the essence of the message which is the sort of ‘kick-in-the-pants’ that we all need occasionally in this Life that can be frenetic in its pace and its accommodation of too many ‘other-determined’ goals (if this makes sense).
All is well ... Life was taking a different turn last week; and that turn had to be accommodated as best as possible. I enjoyed looking around your pin-map to identify the location of members. Good!
I agree that the passage was worth the reading, regardless of its true source. It’s like that speech that is often attributed to Nelson Mandela’s inauguration, which was actually something written by Marianne Williamson. It doesn’t diminish either the words or Mandela’s triumph; just a strange internet phenomenon that words get spread as someone else’s.
A Return to Love
Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
by Marianne Williamson
This quote has been incorrectly attributed to Nelson Mandela in his inaugural speech of 1994. He never spoke these words in his speeches that year.
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.
There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so
that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other
people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.”
Hello Ross, I noticed your location while reading your thread. High Level is beautiful country. I have done a fair amount of work in the energy sector around Rainbow Lake, Zama, and across the border in BC in the Ft. Nelson and Helmut areas. I always had to drive though, and from Calgary, that is a day long task in itself.
For most of this winter I found myself working way up north on the MacKenzie Delta northwest of Inuvik (I really missed seeing trees haha). Luckily they flew us in and out via Canadian North airline. We were blessed to see such varying wildlife as arctic hares, arctic fox, wolves, moose, muskox and a couple local drunks. haha. No polar bears though, thank goodness.
Again, beautiful country you have up there. And the summers are amazing!
I agree that the passage was worth the reading, regardless of its true source. It’s like that speech that is often attributed to Nelson Mandela’s inauguration, which was actually something written by Marianne Williamson. It doesn’t diminish either the words or Mandela’s triumph; just a strange internet phenomenon that words get spread as someone else’s.
A Return to Love
Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
by Marianne Williamson
This quote has been incorrectly attributed to Nelson Mandela in his inaugural speech of 1994. He never spoke these words in his speeches that year.
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.
There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so
that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other
people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.”
Hey there, Ann:
I spent good, good years growing up in Edmonton ... it almost seems like a former life.
Regarding quotes - if I am remembering correctly, I have used the quote you mention above and attributed it to Nelson Mandela (having likewise not found the correct originator/author); I’ll have to look through my previous forum entries; one of the places that is rich for this kind of quote and quotes dealing with subject of grace is http://www.vurch.com . The internet phenomenon of accurate source(s) is something to work through I imagine. So, my quotes in my post this morning are accurate and vetted as accurate.
I’m reading/posting just as I begin after school guitar with some students.
Hey there, all:
I got my workout done. Then had to deal with paying parking tickets with paypal and then on to working with paypal and ebay to support a charity … interesting morning. Things are moving fast.
Tuesday – Abdominals
Roman Chair 2 sets of 20 reps
Hanging Knee 2 sets of 20 reps
Bicycle 2 sets of 20 reps
Vertical Crunch 2 sets of 20 reps
Reverse Crunch 2 sets of 20 reps
Core Crunch 2 sets of 20 reps
Tuesday – Run Stats
Total Time – 65 minutes
Time running – 55 minutes
Time walking (warm-up and cool-down) – 10 minutes
Distance Treadmill – 6.99+ miles
Heart Rate – 126-136 bpm
Energy – 653 Calories burned
Speeds – 3.5 & 7.0 mph
“I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.” – Oscar Wilde
Hello Ross, High Level is beautiful country. I have done a fair amount of work in the energy sector around Rainbow Lake, Zama, and across the border in BC in the Ft. Nelson and Helmut areas. I always had to drive though, and from Calgary, that is a day long task in itself. For most of this winter I found myself working way up north on the MacKenzie Delta northwest of Inuvik. We were blessed to see arctic hares, arctic fox, wolves, moose, muskox. No polar bears though, thank goodness.
Hey there, Derek:
Well done! It is totally neat to find another Motivation to Move member who has been to High Level. High Level is indeed beautiful country, although many might think the area would take some getting used to. Like you, I’ve worked throughout the region with the Fort Vermilion School Division – Rainbow Lake, Zama City, Assumption, Meander River, Steen River and places in between. I’m sure you’re aware of the winter road that crosses from Rainbow Lake to Fort Nelson. One day, perhaps when I get my next 4x4 I’ll try out the road. Calgary to High Level by road is a long, long endeavor with too much windshield time. You’ve also been to a place I hope to travel to – Inuvik. I plan to drive the Dempster highway, one day and see every inch of the terrain on up to Inuvik. And, I’m green with envy about all the wildlife you’ve seen.
Anyway … good to hear that a Calgarian is on board with MTM. I was in Calgary on Saturday coming back from Winnipeg ... it was a second winter blast, I’d say. We had to circle the airport for 20 minutes before landing. I’ll be looking out for your posts.
Ah, Ross, I have long wanted to visit Edmonton during the Fringe Festival. I have known a few performers from there, or who perform there, over the years, as Orlando, Florida has a Fringe Festival as well and I was one of the original volunteer group which started it off in 1992. It’s just expensive and a long trip to get there, relatively speaking, but I hope some year to go. I have a friend in Calgary now also so maybe I could visit both cities.
Hey Ross, good workouts. Yah the weather here has been less than desirable. I have never driven the Dempster highway, but would like to. A trip I did a couple years ago was just north of you to Ft. Simpson. Then a helicopter to Ram Plateau for some hiking. That place is as impressive as the Grand Canyon. When I get in shape, I am going to hike it again.
For me, Thursday is the last day of this work week. We’ve got Friday off in a time-in-lieu arrangement. And, I can say it will be a good thing to be able to sleep in, tomorrow. This morning I’ve worked out completing an Arm day and LSB. There are very few people at the gym this morning. The brighter side of things is absolutely bright ... the sun is up for about half of my workout these days and the gym has large windows letting the light in.
Yesterday was confounded. A student issue was brought to my attention and caused a sleepless night. Then, there was a morning, before school meeting about organizing a career day for our Grade 6-8 clientele ... a good meeting. The experience of coming into school not having worked out yesterday was different. It contained a different feel for time, a different kind of operational readiness and a state more within the mood of the morning’s start. In contrast, when I come in having worked out, I’m also coming in having listened to the latest daily and fitness boosts. So, I’m more in a peak state that my students have to contend with.
For those of you who have been following along on my journey to personal organization ... Mindjet Mindmapping has a personal planner mindmap that was e-mailed to Mindjet customers last week. It’s totally interesting from the point of being able to articulate the ‘scope’ of your Life - all the things you deal with in your life. Goals, projects, tasks, weekly plan, computer desktop, explorer, address book and personal information are all visually set out in a way where you can see it all and work with it all ... all from one map. Are any of you using Mindjet?
Arm Day – Biceps and Triceps
Two Arm Preacher Curl - 4 sets of 12 reps (60 lbs.)
Overhead French Curl - 4 sets of 12 reps (60 lbs.)
Single Arm Preacher Curl - 4 sets of 12 reps (35 lbs.)
V-Bar Push Down - 4 sets of 12 reps (90-100 lbs.)
Incline, Alternating, Bicep Curl - 4 sets of 12 reps (25 lbs. dumbbell)
Dips - 4 sets of 12 reps
Long Slow Burn Stats
Time – 65 minutes
Incline – 13%
Distance – 3.72 miles
Speeds – 3.5 mph
Heart Rate – 128-142 bpm
Energy – 633 Calories burned
“Concentrating on results does not negate the importance of process. On the contrary, the two are interdependent: results tell us which processes are most effective and to what extent and whether processes need re-examining and adjusting. Processes exist for results and results should inform processes.” (Schmoker, 1996, p.4)
Well ... I’ve got a cold and a cough going, yesterday and today. I stayed home from work yesterday and slept until 1:00 p.m.. I spent the afternoon fleshing out some more of the goal setting experience ... goals tied to roles. More of what’s going on is becoming aware of possible ends associated with each role ... what I could or might be able to do - realistic possibilities. And, then there are goals that have an emotional acceleration or exhilaration - what Stephen Covey would call Wildly Important Goals; this seems to be an interesting zone to be in when goal setting.
One goal is a financial goal. Really, it’s just a matter of being more organized with the financial archives. A year ago we went from a binder based archive to a filing cabinet based system. It’s never really been the same. Portability counts ... the matter of having all necessary information in a binder on my desk when I need it. My wife and I worked on getting the binder in order last night. And, I’m grateful for her being there encouraging me in addition to helping out. It means a lot that she understands why we need to do this and that is a helpful source of energy to move forward with this goal.
Exercise over the past few days has been minimal. Friday, my son and I drove to Grande Prairie ... no exercise. Saturday, my son and I drove back to High Level and my wife and I entertained with a dinner party. Sunday I got an hour’s swim in ... a mile and a third done. Monday ... had a cold and slept. This morning, I got out for an hour’s walk to clear my head from the cold medication and to keep my activity level up.
“If taking vitamins doesn’t keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.” - Nicolas-Sebastien Chamfort
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.” - Mark Twain
“It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. Fear secrets acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.” - Henry Ward Beecher
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.
There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so
that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other
people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.”
Wow, I first heard this as a song from a New Orleans group called the ‘Subdudes’ - great quote!
