How do you revive someones engagement?

Engagement is a funny thing. What is the first thing you do when you do not feel engaged? You stop.

When you have something you value for many years, the more look at it you may find more flaws, more issues. Obviously nothing is perfect. But when you for example look at a circle and see some dents and curves, does it mean it is not a circle? What it means that there is still value in what you do even if it is not perfect.

Some people need a reset, some need a kick in the butt. But it is hard to motivate someone who made their mind to stop. How do you get them to start or continue. How do you make them see the value they saw before?

How do you revive someones engagement?

Lessons Learned

You work, work, work and then it is all done. And then what? Continue to the next thing.
It never ends and we keep chancing after the next goal, the next challenge.
Do you know why? Do you know what is the purpose behind all this?

I'm in Pittsburgh. On Friday we implemented phase 1 of our project. The client is extremely happy as they get to use functionality they never had. So, I made other peoples' work better. I should be happy about that. But I can't help feeling that we could have done better.

How do I carry this over to the future. How do I make it not just a lesson learned but actually change how things are done?

15 Years

Next month it will be 15 years since I moved into Canada and that made me think about a lot of things in the last few weeks.

It was not easy to find work when I moved here and I did the math and my salary today is almost 4 times as much as I made the first year in Canada. Unfortunately it never seems to be enough. Why?

I made some friends since I moved here but it is not the same as life friends (you know - the ones you have known since grade 2). Shouldn't you be able to become good friend with someone in few years?

I looked at photos from 10 years ago. And though I had specific image of what I looked like back then, it was not the right image. I already had excess weight back then.

All these things in my head and all I can think is that it is really depends on what I do. But deciding and planning is not enough. I need to follow through. Hmmm...

Day Off

This week was a hard one. I flew to Pittsburgh on Monday and came back on Wednesday. The days were long. Thursday and Friday were busy too. I was hoping to get some rest over the weekend but like always it was busy.

I should take a day off and tell nobody. Not even myself.