I should probably add an “Artificial Intelligence” tag as I suspect I’ll be using it more and more in the coming years (assuming that a tag isn’t needed for “BloggersKilledByAI”) 😉
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Wisdom Wednesday – It’s Not A MidLife (Uhm, 3/4 Life?) Crisis – Its What Happens In Your 50s
@simple_online_system Maybe it IS a midlife crisis. Or maybe somewhere along the way our priorities simply change. I still want to earn money. I still want to be useful. I still have ambitions. I just value TIME a lot more than I used to. And increasingly, I want to find ways of earning that give me more control over it. If you’re at a similar stage of life, tap my name, go to my profile and have a look at the link there. I’ve shared some of what I’m exploring myself. #RetirementLife #LifeAfter50 #Over50 #Retirement #Midlife
Music Monday – “Come down, and waste away with me/Down with me/Slow, how you wanted it to be/I’m over my head, out of her head, she sang”
Sad we have to wait seven years between major concerts at Mosaic Stadium but I’m sure this one will be worth the wait!
“Everlong” – Foo Fighters
Secular Sunday – Weyburn Flooded
We usually pack up our seasonal campsite over September long weekend. This year, there was a forecast for heavy rain so we hurried to do it in a single day. I posted a picture of our farewell pot luck last week but here’s what came the next day – massive flooding of the downtown and some residential areas!
And why “Secular Sunday” instead of “Saturday Snap” like the pot luck pic? Flooding? God? Hello?
Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Mom Was A Badass (July 2007)
I’m not sure I appreciated when I was growing up or even as an adult, how much of a badass and how much of a force my mom was!
Wisdom Wednesday – “What If They Don’t Want To Make It Better?”
I’ve had a few times where I’ve instantly changed my view on something after a conversation with someone.
One such conversation happened at work quite a few years ago.
I was sharing my frustration about how someone wasn’t willing to do something obvious that would be a significant improvement for the organization in multiple ways.
“Why do you think they’d want to make it better?” my coworker said. (Ironically, he later told me it was a different RPL manager had related to him, having had a firsthand view of the different motivations of people running the organization.)
“If you do your job and get your paycheque no matter what, why would you worry about trying to do more or improve things go above and beyond?”
He went on…
“It’s always easier to say ‘no’ then say ‘yes’ because if you say ‘yes’, there’s risk. And someone will have to do some extra work. And most people don’t like to do extra work.”
It blew my mind as I’d never thought that some people *wouldn’t* want to make their workplaces better.
But now, I regularly think of that advice and the amazing things that can happen when people do embrace change and do the work to make something amazing happen!
