Day 7300

Lately I've been listening to Michael Bungay Stanier's poscast series The Great Work Interviews on my iPhone. One of interviews was with Kevin Cashman, author of the book Leadership from the Inside Out. While working in Switzerland, the CEO of the company he's consulting with says "lets go up the mountain to a Tibetan Buddhist monastery and meditate." A monk there looks at Keven and asks, "How many days do you have left to live?" How am I going to use these 6000 days? How many will be for work; for play? How many will be healthy? Pema Chodron "Knowing that you're going to die, and not knowing when you're going to die, what's the most important thing to focus on now?

Day 6624: Feeling crispy today.

Unusual too. Too much responsibility at work and no way to keep up - wears you out, burns you up.

I want to make some notes about what's important to do:

I believe in my 58 years that I've finally figured a few things out, and I want to share them.

I want to get out from under the career rat-race and make some room to live - to grow. I've seen too many people die within months of retirement. Don't want that happening to me.

I want to go back to Italy.

677 Days Later

Well, this is an inauspicious, if not atypical start to a blog. Sign up for a personal blog and not post into it for a year, ten months and 6 days.

And this is supposed to be a blog about what you do with your remaining time (thus the name of the blog - the number of days I have left based upon average lifespans of white males of my age-group). Apparently, not following through is a central part of my daily routine.

Ah, well. Never too late to keep a bad thing from getting worse.