sacha chua :: living an awesome life

SCHEDULED: 2010-08-30 Mon 8:00

Plans from last week:

Work

• [X] Share notes and follow up on action items from training
• [-] Prepare presentation on sharing and workflow – written up, but not yet illustrated
• [X] Organize and run Idea Labs – one down, another to go
• [X] Follow up on expertise pilot – shared with team member, whew!
• [-] Draft follow-up presentations / articles on eminence?
• Started working on bookmark summarization tool
• Reflected on career options
• Prepared ThinkLabs information
• Learned about Pickover format for evaluating invention disclosures
• Talked about my community tool and social analytics
• Helped organize non-Innovation-Discovery Idea Labs
• Attended meeting for potential Drupal project

Relationships

• [X] Have dinner with W’s parents – keeping my name, clashing with traditions
• [X] Go to W’s family get-together
• [  ] Plan tea party for end of August or beginning of September
• [-] Sort out accommodations / travel plans for my family – checked out some places
• Helped rescue Maira from temporary housing crisis

Life

• [X] Catch up after busy weekend
• [-] Organize notes
• Finished Scott Pilgrim game on Average Joe setting

Plans for next week:

Work

• [  ] Have several mentoring conversations
• [  ] Run Energy & Utilities Idea Lab
• [  ] Work on bookmark tool for Boz and Yael
• [  ] Prepare presentation on sharing

Relationships

• [  ] Confirm accommodations and photographer
• [  ] Apply for marriage licence
• [  ] Plan tea party

Life

• [  ] Set up twine support for peas
• [  ] Organize my notes
• [  ] Tweak schedule so that weekly reviews go out on Sunday or Monday

From last week’s plans:

Work

• [X] Organize upcoming Idea Labs
• [X] Attend training for Application Innovation Services consultants
• [X] Work on plugin to make it easier for other people to organize Idea Labs
• [X] Contact briefing consultants regarding the expertise pilot
• Scanned my notes
• Did innovation archetype analysis for car company
• Produced slidecast for Communicating Across Cultures session
• Helped more people with stats / community tools

Relationships

• [C] Send a quick note to people I met at VXToronto and in woodworking class
• [-] Mail lots of jam – packed, but not yet sent

Life

• [X] Pick up more travel business wear at the Tilley sale  (yay for wash-and-wear blazer, blouse, and pants for ~$190 total including tax!)
• [X] Outline my “lifeline of books” (see “Write for Your Lives”) – also outlined presentations; looking into posting this online
• Packed lots of frozen lunches

Plans for next week:

Work

• [  ] Share notes and follow up on action items from training
• [  ] Prepare presentation on sharing and workflow
• [  ] Organize and run Idea Labs
• [  ] Follow up on expertise pilot
• [  ] Draft follow-up presentations / articles on eminence?

Relationships

• [  ] Have dinner with W’s parents
• [  ] Go to W’s family get-together
• [  ] Plan tea party for end of August or beginning of September
• [  ] Sort out accommodations / travel plans for my family

Life

• [  ] Catch up after busy weekend
• [  ] Organize notes

From last week’s plans:

Long-weekend focus: declutter space, organize information

Work

• [X] Organize upcoming Idea Labs
• [X] Answer more requests for community toolkit: statistics, bugfixes, etc.
• [  ] Package Lotus Notes plugin – postponed, but worked on community membership management for Lotus Notes plugin
• Helped revise slides and posters
• Helped a client learn more about Idea Labs
• Gave mentoring advice
• Talked to potential new team

Relationships

• [X] Declutter living room – wow! so different now.
• [  ] Follow up with people, learning about them and their interests – still haven’t followed up on tweetup or class
• [X] Catch up with mylifeandart
• Bought a television and a Playstation 3
• Bought latest book in Artemis Fowl series
• Treated W- and J- to Despicable Me, which was lots of fun
• Experimented with the Litter Robot – wonder if the cats will take to it. Pricey, but if it works…
• Decluttered living room and gave away a third of our books
• Harvested our first bitter melon and made pinakbet with it =)

Life

• [-] Draw more! =)
• [-] Create an index for images, book notes, blog posts, etc. – scanned my sketches
• [-] Plan next tea party – maybe end of month?
• [C] Price-match blender if possible – cancelled because of price differences for colour
• Posted lots of reflections
• Replanted large parts of the garden
• Upgraded to Lucid Lynx

Next week’s plans:

Work

• Organize upcoming Idea Labs
• Attend training for Application Innovation Services consultants
• Work on plugin to make it easier for other people to organize Idea Labs
• Contact briefing consultants regarding the expertise pilot

Relationships

• Send a quick note to people I met at VXToronto and in woodworking class
• Mail lots of jam

Life

• Pick up more travel business wear at the Tilley sale
• Outline my “lifeline of books” (see “Write for Your Lives”)

Work

• [X] Support upcoming workshops
• [X] Re-use Idea Lab results
• [X] Launch expertise pilot with SMEs
• [X] Explore possible expertise specialist position
• [X] Add features to community toolkit plugin
• Helped community owners learn more about vitality and metrics
• Added statistics to Lotus Notes community tools plugin
• Learned how to modify Lotus Notes plugins and use Expeditor!

Relationships

• [X] Experiment with more recipes (instead of hiring cooking teacher? More sustainable, and we’ve got the basics sorted out already)
• [-] Reflect on happiness with a friend, co-writing a blog entry – postponed to next week
• [-] Follow up with people from tweetup, learning about them and their interests
• [X] Coordinate with family on new date
• Helped a friend learn more about cooking
• Tidied up my computer
• Had great conversations about connecting, introductions, etc.

Life

• [-] Organize everything into neat zippered pouches, etc.
• [-] Declutter: Eliminate one thing a day
• [C] Sign up for singing lessons – focusing on other things right now
• [-] Take advantage of free studio time at the Sewing Studio (Sunday, 2pm to 6pm – get all of my cutting and serging and sewing done, and get some exercise on the way there and back too)
• Also: Cleared and replanted parts of the garden
• Learned more about woodworking
• Drew, yay!
• Explored Craigslist a little more

PLANS FOR NEXT WEEK:

Long-weekend focus: declutter space, organize information

Work

• [  ] Organize upcoming Idea Labs
• [  ] Answer more requests for community toolkit
• [  ] Package Lotus Notes plugin

Relationships

• [  ] Declutter living room
• [  ] Follow up with people, learning about them and their interests
• [  ] Catch up with mylifeandart

Life

• [  ] Draw more! =)
• [  ] Create an index for images, book notes, blog posts, etc.
• [  ] Plan next tea party
• [  ] Price-match blender if possible

SCHEDULED: 2010-07-27 Tue 08:00

From last week’s plans:

Work

• [X] Launch idea lab
• [-] Launch expertise location pilot and invite SMEs – sent note, drafted SME note
• [X] Follow up with experts
• [X] Set up my Lotus Notes development environment – Whee!

Relationships

• [X] Sort out wedding plans: re-check assumptions, constraints? – October 2?
• [-] Share cheesecake with friends: Finished before anyone could come over.
• [-] Help work on chair: postponed due to humidity
• Helped Maira learn more about cooking. Looked into how to make alfredo sauce from scratch – should be easy!
• Mended the laundry basket (yay sewing!)
• Made pesto, mmmm
• Filled the freezer with individual portions of food. Must be getting the hang of it, as I don’t remember spending lots of time in the kitchen, just having lots of fun. =)
• Planted more peas

Life

• [-] Buy my own ukulele tuner: Don’t need it for now
• [X] Collect and try out more songs: Getting pretty good at this! =)
• [X] Sew more tops and accessories: Got lots of practice, although knits are still a challenge
• Decluttered: donated a few bags of old clothes, houseware items
• Bought a few tops from Value Village, am happy with finds

Plans for next week:

Work

• [X] Support upcoming workshops
• [X] Re-use Idea Lab results
• [X] Launch expertise pilot with SMEs
• [X] Explore possible expertise specialist position
• [X] Add features to community toolkit plugin

Relationships

• [X] Experiment with more recipes (instead of hiring cooking teacher? More sustainable, and we’ve got the basics sorted out already)
• [X] Reflect on happiness with a friend, co-writing a blog entry
• [X] Follow up with people from tweetup, learning about them and their interests
• [X] Coordinate with family on new date

Life

• [X] Organize everything into neat zippered pouches, etc.
• [X] Declutter: Eliminate one thing a day
• [X] Sign up for singing lessons
• [X] Take advantage of free studio time at the Sewing Studio (Sunday, 2pm to 6pm – get all of my cutting and serging and sewing done, and get some exercise on the way there and back too)

Plans from last week:

Work

• [X] Support upcoming workshops: lots of juggling and following up! I’m getting much better at reaching out across the organization, too.
• [-] Plan for and have mid-year review: getting close to my birthday review, too
• [X] Consolidate community toolkit: Thanks to the lovely IBM OneUI template that Stephan Wissel customized for me, I got inspired to integrate my Community Toolkit and make it look fancy. The toolkit includes a newsletter, forum exporter, blog exporter, stats generator, content exporter, OPML generator, and feed-to-email link generator. I’ll add other public tools as I get requests for them, and Luis Benitez will help me figure out how to get this and even more awesome functionality into Lotus Notes plugins (to deal with the security and privacy issues).
• Made a lot of headway on planning external Idea Labs

Relationships

• [X] Organize a get-together or spend time with friends: Helped Maira look at kitchen knives
• [-] Reschedule all the services related to the wedding: moved my vacation, still figuring out plans
• [  ] Cook a new recipe
• Watched several movies with W-, thanks to the library (yay library!)
• Caught a glimpse of the Indy 500 while biking around
• Did lots of biking with W-, yay!
• Ruthlessly purged fridge. Mwahaha!
• Helped make cheesecake for J-‘s unbirthday party

Life

• [-] Find a singing teacher: E-mailed a few potential teachers
• [X] Learn how to play “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” on the ukulele
• [X] Identify and work on clutter spots – bought a belt bag with more pockets to help me stay organized
• Also learned how to play Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah (ukulele chords). I love self-referential things. (It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift…)It sounds remarkably cheerful on the ukulele.
• Weeded and trimmed the garden. Pulled up peas in order to start second crop. Pulled up some of the bush beans, too. Added to compost heap.
• Sewed a ukulele case, yay! Had just enough padding to make it. Worked without a pattern.
• Sewed simple knit top and dress. Still a little rough, but more comfortable than my old cotton T-shirt. Browsing through the fabric store gets me excited about sewing.
• Started printing selected entries from my blog.
• Biked along the lakeshore (Martin Goodman trail). Pretty!
• Bought some more technical shirts for biking.

Plans for next week:

Work

• [  ] Launch idea lab
• [  ] Launch expertise location pilot and invite SMEs
• [  ] Follow up with experts
• [  ] Set up my Lotus Notes development environment

Relationships

• [  ] Sort out wedding plans – re-check assumptions, constraints?
• [  ] Share cheesecake with friends
• [  ] Help work on chair

Life

• [  ] Buy my own ukulele tuner
• [  ] Collect and try out more songs
• [  ] Sew more tops and accessories