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constantly starting over

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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.

Best Weather in Utah

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Last week we spent the week in St. George.  I really like that the weather is warmer there than most places I’ve lived.  But not as brutally hot as others.  It also has the wonderful added bonus of cooling down every evening.

I believe St. George has more days and more times that are absolutely perfect.  Sometimes it’s only part of the day, but there are many days when it is all day.  Lots of places I’ve lived they would have a few days every year that were perfect, just a few.  Southern California has beautiful days almost all day everyday.  On the days that in other places might be called less than perfect in souther California they only add a refreshing break to the perfection.  Hopefully also adding to the realization of how perfect the weather really is.

Back to Utah weather and St. George.

Having lived in Salt Lake a few year, the past being the coldest and wettest I remember, I have come to truly appreciate how great the weather in St. George really is.   While St. George and the surrounding areas are growing there is still aren’t that many people and the traffic is minimal.

Sadly the economy is crazy in St. George.  No one would move there for a job, we can only move there if we are getting paid by companies outside of St. George.

Even with the crazy economy I am surprised more people do not live there.

I realized a few years ago St. George is an incurable disease you catch and once your infected you will end up there.

Be warned!

New Job

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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.

Google Voice and Sprint

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I have been using google voice off and and on for over a year.  Now it been hooked up with sprint.  There are a couple of cool things about this.  Here is a short list.

1. I am at a computer a lot, and I can text from my web browser.

2. Voice mail to my phone is transcribed and sent to me as an e-mail.  I can also download and listen to these messages on my smart phone.

3. I can call people from the computer and they see it’s from me.  I’ve used a skype number with my last company for over 6 months and people wouldn’t answer my call because most of the time the skype number didn’t even show the number it was coming from.

4. This is super cool!  If I am in a building, house, where I don’t have cell coverage, like the basement of my in-laws, I can receive calls to my cell phone on my laptop.

There are probably other things for other people.  but these things, while small, make my life just a little bit better.

 

Happiness is not about ME it’s about YOU

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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%