Journal Entry 2013

It seems the last few years I have been constantly starting over and trying to reinvent myself. Every few months I’m at it again, reading some new philosophy, a tweak on an old idea, I’ve tried many new approaches, taken lots of advice and for what?

I’ve found a bunch of things that I haven’t been able to make work. Not so much that they are bad ideas, but I just can’t make them gain any traction in my situation. It also seems that lots of things I am associated with seem to spin out of control quickly, and being on the edge of most of these situations I am spun off violently.

So here I am again trying to start another situation.

I had no idea how fragile the financial situation of my last company was.   They lost a couple of customers and decided to lay me off.

Lucky for me I had been looking for sometime and had a couple of offers within the week.   All of the offers and interviews came from networking, mostly from my friends at church.

The offer I accepted came from one of my friends that I interacte with on a fairly regular basis.

My advice at this point is to constantly be networking with friends.  because you never know when you are going to need a new job.

I am still working towards my goal of pay for performance consulting.  We’ll just have to see what doors open for that.

I listened to a wonderful discussion between Clayton Christensen and Tom Ashbrook of NPR’s Onpoint.

“There is no happiness in self-centeredness” Clay Christensen

Then they go on to talk about healthcare.

85% of the country is served by a sick system. The healthcare gets money for people getting sick. They see problems as a revenue opportunity.

15% of the country is served by a well system.  The healthcare system that keeps cost down by keeping people well. Kaiser Permanente in California and Intermountain Healthcare in Utah. are part of the 15%

I was outside, no covering, wind blowing and the ice cold rain was turning to snow.

Only 10 minutes previously I had been 55 maybe 60 degrees.  Now it was in the upper 30s low 40s.  I felt bad for the u13 girls that were having to endure and play in this surprisingly quick weather change. for over an hour they had to endure they weather before the game ended.  We lost, of course.

Then I traipsed off to join my friend at the outdoor stadium to watch some football, not american football, but what we in the United States call soccer.

That’s were I was last night at 8:47 PM last night, in the first minute of stoppage time as Real Salt Lake scored the only goal to win the game.

Every now a again here in Salt Lake City we have a couple of days of spectacular weather surface and I begin dreaming of a long an joyous spring..  Then hear comes the cold wind blowing in from the north to shatter my hopes.

Maybe I need to find a way to move south.

At least the games were fun.