Last month, I wrote:

What will August look like? I’m turning 27, so it’ll be a great excuse to do that yearly review (and what a year!). Work: Organize lots of Idea Labs, support workshops, attend training, improve our community toolkit, come up with a way for other people to organize Idea Labs easily, explore opportunities, and prepare presentations. Relationships: Sort everything out for wedding, reorganize space, meet up with W-’s family, have a tea party, meet up with friends, mentor and be mentored. Life: Get back into sewing pouches and other organizers. Draw and write more vividly. Have fun. =)

It’s been quite a month. As promised, a yearly review, with a PDF of my favourite blog posts from life as a 26-year-old. Lots of work: organizing Idea Labs, attending training, creating training material, tweaking the community toolkit. Lots of changes – things that rippled into changes in lifestyle: a blender for healthy breakfast shakes, a television and a PS3 for family gaming (but be careful with the timesuck!), a tablet PC for drawing and presentations. We helped a friend solve a temporary housing problem. And the wedding preparations – mostly okay, but a fair bit of drama. The licence has been obtained, the bed-and-breakfast for my family has been reserved, the dress has arrived, the photographer has been booked. Some differences. Fortunately, W- is amazing, and we’re going to get through this. I’ve got a little bit more clarity around the career front regarding what I want to do, so I only need to focus on resolving one thing at a time.

September: more Idea Labs, preparations, keeping things sane. October: a whirlwind. And then a new normal, I hope.

Reviews:

• Week ending August 29, 2010
• Weekly review: Week ending August 22, 2010
• Weekly review: Week ending August 15, 2010
• Weekly review: Week ending August 8, 2010
• Weekly review: Week ending August 1, 2010
• Monthly review: July 2010

Work and tips:

• Proactive communication: Five tips for following up
• Six steps to make sharing part of how you work
• Keeping in touch with diffuse networks
• Speed-reading
• Note-taking revisited
• Sample code for allowing drag-and-drop of Notes/Domino documents (including email) to a table in a plugin Success and blogging
• On finding a great job
• On passion and luck
• What’s success, anyway?
• Television and the push and pull of motivation

Life:

• Limiting my options so that I can focus
• Setting up my new tablet PC – apps, config, etc.
• Drawing with my tablet
• On a Lenovo X61
• Learning storytelling from my parents
• Backyard trades
• Hypercubes, happiness, and serenity
• Diversity and awareness of privilege
• Twenty-seven
• The delicate dance of status
• Reflecting on introductions
• Networking events
• Long weekend reflections
• Two days of awesome