Stories - FD Thornton

Over the last few post, I've more or less talked about focus and the present moment and how I'm trying to figure them out in my life and work. Well, at this point I'm refocusing on looking for other work besides the light weight efforts my little business is presenting me. I believe I'm ready to accept a greater challenge of my abilities. And as much as I hate to say it, I'm pretty sure it will involve a move by me and my family to find that challenge.  All my life I've been pretty bored with whatever position I've worked, rather does positions were of great or small responsibility. It's not that I hate to work, it's more that I love a real challenge mentally from my work. That to me was the purpose to my completing school then continuing with my MBA. To feed that need to challenge and better myself.  I guess the goal now is to find the right fit between me and a business that can fully utilize my unique set of skills and experiences. But from my

Living your life "in the moment", isn't a bad thing. In fact for most it's a wise move, by focusing your energies on the moment, you can open your mind to all kinds of solutions. Solutions you may not been able to grasp with a wondering mind.  The reason I bring this up is, for a very long time I have allowed my thoughts to wonder. While doing this for a while has allowed me to experience and explore many different areas of life and the world. But it also may bring about a rambling of too many ideas and thoughts, that when packed tightly together, seem to impede my focus and drive. It's the idea of this wondering that has bought me to an interesting point in my life. How do I continue to enjoy the playfulness of my wanderlust. While working on the advanced forms of business decision making, I have been trained and work to do? Can these two disciplines work together in me?   I hope I haven't lost anyone? It's been several hours since I wrote those

It's a dizzily Saturday afternoon and my teams playin' a little football. But the day isn't all leisure, I got a report to write for Monday and some other stuff to catch up on since I lost Friday to doctor's (don't ask). So after taking some time last night to recoup and sleep, I got up this morning ready to "hit the bricks".  But you know what, right now I work for me. And while things can get behind, at my age I've learned most projects are a marathon and not sprint. So that's why I'm saying get things done but at your own pace. If you can pace yourself and make forward progress everyday, your already ahead of the pack. Take my Friday as an example, I kept my appointment times, It was just unexpected delays that pushed those appointment times 2 + hours over. And I don't know about you, but just being in doctors offices wear me out.  Still, when things like that happen and your schedule is sent to hell and back, don't panic. Simply

I just walked away from my desk to take an extended lunch break. I've been at the desk since 8 am and even ate breakfast at the desk, which I never do. But unlike most other days this past week, this Monday morning has been very productive. All I can really say is, taking your breaks and understanding when your mind and body are wearing down. Will make you more productive in the long run. This is something I speak on from experience, you just can't kept pushing and pushing something. At some point, something breaks down. Then you end up with two problems, the first one and a whole new one. So the point is, when you feel out of sorts or notice mistakes being made, call for a break.  Another thing to keep in mind is, maintenance. You can only run your car so long on a tank of gas, or an oil change, or a set of tires. The same thing applies to you, you can only go so far without food, water, sleep, or even a bath (think of others around you). The thing is get in tune with your

Have you every gotten up and started your day like "gang busters"? You know, everything's running on all cylinders and you feel like it's going to be one productive day. Well that's how today started for me. I had a good nights sleep, the morning air don't feel like it weighed sixty pounds, and my morning coffee was just right. The trouble started after I went through my emails. I got an email about a job opening, I read it, it looked good, I did some research on the business, and even wrote a cover letter. The trouble began when I decided to post my resume, and cover letter, and fill out the application. It seem that every time I attempted to sign in the site it looped me back to the sign in section again and again. This went on for 30 minutes, until I just gave up. But you know, that wasn't going to let this ruin my day. I'll simply put it on the back burner for now.  On my next project I had a limited amount of time, because I had something

It's been a while since I posted, but when you don't have a lot to say it's usually better to keep your mouth shut. When you do that, you tend to stay out of trouble and out of the cross-hairs. Sometimes especially in heated situations we find ourselves saying things that are best unsaid. Today, I don't think it's that we fire off our mouths more than we did in the past. It's just that we have more opportunities to do so then we did a few years back.  Think about it, before the Internet we had to write a letter to the editor or whomever it was we disagreed. So if we took that much time and effort, we usually planned out your argument to get our point across. Unlike today, where a few keystrokes can get your F@#$-You across the planet in a matter of seconds. So with that much power to argue or disagree, wouldn't you think we should be that much more careful with the way we disagree? Think of it like this, I've been married very close to 26 years, if y