From Lava:
I learned that if you don’t let your kids eat a lot of candy when they are little they will really want it when they are older. Or not. Two kids; two different outcomes. Same with t.v. So really what I learned is that they are who they are regardless of our best efforts to have some influence.
A Friend learned, and taught me, that rest trumps brute effort when it comes to solving a complex problem. If you’re rested, you may come up with a clever solution that does not take all that work.
From Lava:
I learned that if you don’t let your kids eat a lot of candy when they are little they will really want it when they are older. Or not. Two kids; two different outcomes. Same with t.v. So really what I learned is that they are who they are regardless of our best efforts to have some influence
I learned another reason not to check the blackberry late at night. By checking a new text message, I accidentally and unknowingly dialed the Loved One who had texted me, and then went, clueless, off to bed. That left her confused and concerned. Sorry Sweetie!
And if you want to know WHY we keep checking for new messages, it’s really well explained here:
http://ww.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=129384107
Look for the part around this “GROSS: I always think maybe it’ll be a little gift there, like some really wonderful message, something like really interesting and fascinating or somebody I’m dying to hear from.”
I am learning how important it is to know where I’m going.
It could be driving in Boston (see ALL those entries about using a GPS in Boston), for which it’s important to know where I’m going in two ways: know that the GPS picked the right destination, and then know the general idea about the destination (for when the signal is lost in the tunnel AND the cowpath thing freaks out the GPS).
Or it could be knowing where I need to be, as in my dream last night where I was frantically trying to get to a drumming thing but instead climbing ladders in the wrong direction. Bummer.
Or it could be my career.
They all have this in common: Know where you’re going.
I have learned that a day can go any way at all and that I can’t tell how the day is going to go, just by how it starts.
Oh. Big.
I am learning that the less dependent I am on external validation, the more stable I am. Fewer highs, perhaps, but more meaningful ones. And definitely fewer lows, and not as deep.
What a year!
I have learned that:
“You can’t always get what you want
You can’t always get what you want
You can’t always get what you want
But if you try sometime, you just might find
You just might find
You get what you need” Mick Jagger/Keith Richards
What have you found?
(if you don’t know that punch line one of us will fill you in)
Anyway. I have learned that there are many answers to the question “how many pushups can I do in one minute”. This week’s answer is “about 4 fewer than I did Monday at bootcamp testing”. My answer for the future is “I don’t want to know enough to find out”
I may be learning more about the phrase I keep hearing this afternoon: “rotator cuff”
Posted from an Emergency Room in Madison WI.
Jane's Lessons Learned 