March 22, 2021
Good morning! The other day I was waiting patiently for a client to join me — masked and safe-distanced — at a favourite dive that serves terrific food. An elderly couple (how do you earn that title?!) was seated across the room and in a short time was served enormous, delicious-looking portions of food. Each appeared to bow their heads in prayer, but the woman took just a few seconds while the gentleman continued for quite some time. I would have enjoyed interviewing them to learn their story.
- I love sushi; I love sharing it with a friend and eating it more than I enjoy preparing it because it requires nimbleness of the fingers and I’ve never been accused of that.
- I was watching the Sushi Master at work which is something I had never before taken the time to do.
- As I watched, he taught me, step-by-step with lots of little helpful hints, how to make a perfect, beautiful, delicious roll — and quickly.
- He even showed me the trick of getting the ends of the roll to be perfectly plumb so as to have no waste and no aesthetically displeasing pieces.
- I think I made his day by showing genuine interest — and he sure made my day by sharing his secrets with me.
- I wonder how many similar experiences I’ve missed in life?!
- More wisdom from Dave: “The things we measure get done.” (Dave)
- Want help identifying the correct things to measure? Reach out to Without a Vision.
“When people make mistakes, the last thing they need is discipline. It’s time for encouragement and confidence building…… The job at this point is to restore self-confidence…… I think piling on when someone is down is among the worst things any of us can do.” (Welch)
- Do you horde anything? Foods? Wines? Clothing with tags still on? A secret stash of cash? Gift cards? Chocolate? Lemons?
- How is your March Madnesses bracketology?
- I had 78% on the first round… not bad, but four for four wrong on the opening four. ( guess those don’t count?)
- I had Illinois to win it all and Ohio State in the Final Four…
- This will get advertised here because of the Interim Executive Director role I’m currently happily serving for Habitat for Humanity:
- Position Open: Executive Director of Central Minnesota Habitat for Humanity (See Document Below) Please pass along, help us find candidates.
- The disciplined regimen of a daily five or six mile urban hike came to an abrupt end five weeks ago when I injured my left foot.
- Progress, averages, regressions toward the mean, best day ever, last year’s 13.1-mile Earth Day hike, one or two slacker days out of 1,500 but not more than that.
- All recorded permanently on a device that tends not to deceive; it only knows how to count, doesn’t consider excuses, injuries, or explanations.
- It got me to thinking about the laws of averages and how we are often delusional when it comes to data; they must not be true, can’t be true, I can explain why they’re wrong.
- What is YOUR plan if your left foot gets injured?
- Here’s one for you: Doing nothing new or different for an entire year [(1.00) to the 365th = 1.00 outcome]
- Making a tiny little bit of steady, daily progress for an entire year [(1.01) to the 365th = 37.7 outcome]
- Just one one hundredth of an effort produces a thirty-seven fold return; wow! (Distretti… I didn’t check her/his math)
- “Nothing will kill a great employee faster than that person watching you tolerate a bad one.” (Belcher)
- By some estimates nearly one-third (33%) of school children in the U.S. have not been in a traditional school classroom in more than a year.
- What impact do you think this will have?
