Weekly review: Week ending April 11, 2010

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From last week’s plans:

Plans for this week:

Work

  • [X] Follow up on Idea Lab
  • [X] Update enablement plan
  • [X] Follow up with executives regarding mentoring
  • [-] Talk to more people about Canada, global, and growth market career options
  • [-] Update social insurance number records
  • Had great mentoring chat with Brian O’Donovan – weekly reviews and GTD are now part of his habits, yay! =)
  • Attended GTD at IBM talk
  • Helped Heather Fedash think about Web 2.0 options for her team
  • Started putting together a list of large team challenges
  • Learned about whiteboard selling; inspired to create material around Smarter Cities

Relationships

  • [X] Do taxes
  • [X] Transplant bittermelon
  • [X] Plant lettuce, spinach, bok choi  – lettuce seedlings are beginning to come up! I’ll sew more next weekend
  • [X] Plan garden sides
  • Bought lumber for another garden box
  • Planted onions and protected the bulbs with chicken wire
  • Prepared 24 roast chicken lunch portions – should see us through the next two weeks!
  • Watched a couple of movies with W- (yay library); also, lots of snarky movie reviews

Life

  • [-] Debug org-toodledo
  • [-] Finish sewing top
  • Drew some more =)
  • Rejigged my envelope system (personal finance) and my spreadsheet
  • Reviewed my high-level plan
  • Took my own advice and started reading more webcomics, watching Youtube videos, etc. to learn more about storytelling

Plans for next week:

Work

  • [  ] Map team challenges to examples of groups doing well
  • [  ] Install software needed to create Lotus Notes plugin for processing Idea Lab RSVPs
  • [  ] Document best practices and processes for idea labs
  • [  ] Follow up with team regarding enablement guide
  • [  ] Work on Smarter Cities whiteboard story
  • [  ] Update my social insurance number records

Relationships

  • [  ] Order two cubic yards of triple-mix for backyard raised bed
  • [  ] Build raised bed and plant lettuce
  • [  ] Plan tea party for end of April or mid-May
  • [  ] Clear out more space in freezer

Life

  • [  ] Finish tops
  • [  ] Post pictures of cooking adventures
  • [  ] Follow up on missed Schedule 7
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