March 29, 2010

Plans from last week:

Work

• [X] Handle post-engagement tasks for UK workshop
• [X] Finalize personal business commitments and individual development plan
• Chatted with dotted-line manager about career plans
• Added more documentation for Idea Labs
• Started planning first non-English Idea Lab
• Learned more about AutoHotkey and clipboards
• Helped with Global Pulse social media ideas
• Connected people interested in Smarter Cities
• Listened to client center enablement calls
• Created frequently asked questions and lessons learned pages
• Added facilitation methods to our wiki

Relationships

• [X] Have tea with Jeff and Greg
• [X] Improve household routines – freezing meals is working quite well
• Also: Sewed zippered mesh pouches, yay! Next step: zippered ripstop pouch with inner mesh pockets.
• Made beef and cheese empanadas
• Thought about housekeeping / cat sitting services for future travel or crunch time
• Booked appointment with lawyer

Life

• [  ] Set up greenhouse  – postponed to long weekend
• [X] Deliver “Presentation Kaizen” at PresentationCamp on Tuesday – had fun
• [X] Redeposit British pounds
• Automated Toodledo backup
• Started the outside garden
• Got back into tweaking my Emacs environment – wrote Perl script to export Toodledo to Org format
• Rode my bike often, yay!

Plans for next week:

Work

• [  ] Give Remote Presentations That Rock presentation for soft skills training – Monday
• [  ] Set up non-English Idea Lab
• [  ] Learn more about Innovation Archetype analysis
• [  ] Have more career-related conversations
• [  ] Chat with Daneal Charney regarding leadership and Gen Y
• [  ] Host team enablement call

Relationships

• [  ] Make and freeze new recipes
• [  ] Make zippered pouch with inner pockets
• [  ] Tidy house, reset
• [  ] Tweak entrance arrangement
• [  ] File tax return
• [  ] Build greenhouse

Life

• [  ] Get back into sewing clothes