Greenelight Development

Wow! It's easy to get out of a habit (or into one). I've missed blogging for a couple of weeks because I just didn't focus on it! We use phrases like: they respect what you inspect...and you get what you focus on most. I have decided that some of my lag in blogging is because it is new to me, and I'm still looking for best blogging practices.

This whole internet networking process is a wonderful new medium by which we can connect with others worldwide. Whether it's Facebook, MySpace, LInked In, Plaxo...there are hundreds of ways to re-connect with people you've misplaced, and to build on the contacts your network knows. In reconnecting with a former business associate, I happened upon her website and a blogging course from Simpleology.



As part of my own personal continous improvement, I'm hoping this course will help me be more effective as a blogger.

We have all lost things never again to be found, and other things turn up when we least expect them. There is anger, frustration and sadness at our losses. Conversely, we experience surprise, happiness and even giddiness when something long gone is found.

Interestingly enough, the same can be said of relationships. Whether through differences or death, we sometimes lose relationships. Over the last seven years, I have been astounded at the number of friends past and present who have passed away far too soon. I attended yet another friend’s wake a week ago. I remembered him as one of the most handsome, popular, smart and personable guys I knew in high school. As I read the guestbook in the online obituary, many of his peers felt the same way.

Then a name in the guestbook that I hadn’t seen in years came to my attention. I quickly dashed off an email, asking that individual to connect with me because I’d wondered about where life had taken him. Long story short – it was actually his cousin that I was looking for, and after several email exchanges between Phoenix and Omaha, his cousin and I found each other in Omaha. We connected on the phone and will be getting together face to face in the next couple of weeks. Even though the first connection was an error, I've built a potential new connection, and renewed a former.

If you’ve been thinking of someone and the opportunity presents itself to find them or reconnect, seize it.

It’s a new year…and you can take new risks and make new decisions to connect!

It's a new year: a time for turning over new leaves, setting new goals...do-overs for adults! Welcome to my website and my blog. My work is about communicating the real messages you want to get across, finding work you love and creating a life full of fun, meaningful relationships and purpose.

I spent some time this holiday season on the phone long distance with some of my girlfriends that share a national project I'm working on. As they told me about all the household projects they were undertaking in the time between Christmas and New Year's, I found myself feeling frustrated that I had not accomplished anything I'd planned. Both friends firmly reminded me that I've been painfully ill the entire vacation (what a way to go!) and that expecting the same results as they had was truly unrealistic.

O.K., so I have spent the last month coughing so hard that I dislocated some ribs and felt like half a lung would come up with the next cough. What an "aha!" moment for me. We are sometimes so focused on getting the work done (whatever that may be) that we a) fail to take care of ourselves and b) are unrealistically hard on ourselves.

My challenge to you, (as well as myself) this year, is to be kinder to yourself. Do the best you can, and appreciate your best effort. Take time for you to take care of you. Remember: if you don't take care of you, nothing else matters. Here's to a happy, healthy and prosperous 2008!