I was running this morning while pondering a personal challenge I’ve levied on myself. My goal is to get better at articulating what I observe more simply with plainer language. Without losing accuracy.
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Success is one of those things we generally think we know what it means and behave as if everyone defines it pretty much the same way. Except we don’t. We acknowledge this pretty quickly in terms of where different people set their performance bars, but there’s a lot more to success definition than moving an outcomes bar up and down some arbitrary, society-defined metric. I have a track record of doing this and I plan on doing everything I can to do it again next Saturday. I’m going to a World Championship, after all. Yes, perhaps it’s an amateur World Championship, but I have the honor of racing against some fine 40+ now-amateur talent (some of whom used to be pro). This is my big race of the season. The one that I’ve sacrificed Mommy-Remy time on the weekends for. The one I’ve spent ugh-worthy amounts of money for entry fees, plane tickets and a Team USA race kit. This race, I mean business. I have a bunch of “great ideas” that I start a rough draft post on then never finish. Here is one that I started over a year ago. I figure that I still won’t take the time and effort to do the topic justice, but it’s better to get something out there than not. As you may recall, I mentioned a burgeoning interest in education policy. My perspectives are heavily colored by a career and research interests spanning performance excellence, leadership, organizational effectiveness and all things related. Because I don’t have the bandwidth to go into more detail these days, here’s a short blurb about my thoughts. Hi there intrepid reader. Despite the smart sounding title, this post is a mundane publicizing of something I did last week that you may or may not have noticed already. I’ve been busy. I haven’t posted. Those two things are related. Gee, you’ve never read that on a blog before. Boring! However, the reasons why might hold some interest for you. To find out, read on. Lately, I’ve been giving a lot of thought to education. This compulsion a function of my interest in high performance, capability and what it takes to develop that in any human. Since I now have a small child, I’m inclined to consider those younger humans in addition to those adult-sized models. Somewhere on Linked In I came across this request from Nick Smith of Clearpath Training:
So I figured, what the heck and filled out his questionnaire. Here are my responses. Continue reading Professional Parent Productivity Questionnaire Let me get one thing straight. I won’t even pretend that I am truly optimizing my triathlon performance as a current highest life priority. The fact that triathlon performance is tertiary to a host of other higher priorities like family, career, finances and longevity in sport means that I’m not riding on the razor thin edge of my capability to absorb work. This truth makes certain training and racing decisions much, much easier. |
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