Thursday, September 28, 2006
Web Directions 06. not a bad piece of kit really.
There are particular people there who I've met before, and many I've never met. All of which were utterly fascinating people.
Some particular people were highly valueable to me, and luck prevailing will remain to be.
I learned a lot about myself through reflection, being the sort of person I am. Specifically about my life goals, and who I am, what I want from life, and where I am placed these days.
My life goals are driven by my catch phrase question "why?", why am I doing what I'm doing, why do I want these things?
My primary goal is, and forgive me for being a big softy, but "to make the lives of the people who I connect with, more rich for having me in it". or something like that anyway.
A very close friend of mine said I would likely hit SES within the next 5 years. On one level, I hoped he was right. From that position, I could do much good for the government, and the public to which it serves.
With that still playing on my mind, I went to the conference, and met an extrodinary person who also seemed to think I was also destined for more.
With these two key moments in time captured heavily in my heart, I thought deep and hard about what I was doing with my approach to getting more from what I have done. Successes, failures, or other.
Do i really want to be in the senior executive? is that going to make me come home and feel fulfilled? can I really change things from there?
No. No not really. Maybe, but not likely.
So my more tangible goal was to rethink my approach to helping / enrichening peoples lives.
- can I do this through improving the pathway which technology is developed, and how its managed?
- can I do this through mentoring key people in my life, by sharing everything openly and honestly with them?
- could I perhap make better use of this electronic connective tissue to expose what I know, and allow both myself and those around me to test what I know, collaboratively.
- Should I consider a pathway for myself that includes lecturing again?
- what were last weeks lotto numbers?
These things all mean something.
Up until now I've really only focussed on one person or small group of people at a time. I'm changing my goals. Changing them to refocuss myself more on my direct professional community, and benefiting it. Perhaps that's where I'm destined to make change. Perhaps that's how I can share what I've learned from my time at enterprise level.
This journey is there for me to take, I'll take it and see what it leads me to. My goals remain the same, just my path to getting there is different.
More on goal setting later I guess.
Thanks for reading,
Keep your users in mind.
There are particular people there who I've met before, and many I've never met. All of which were utterly fascinating people.
Some particular people were highly valueable to me, and luck prevailing will remain to be.
I learned a lot about myself through reflection, being the sort of person I am. Specifically about my life goals, and who I am, what I want from life, and where I am placed these days.
My life goals are driven by my catch phrase question "why?", why am I doing what I'm doing, why do I want these things?
My primary goal is, and forgive me for being a big softy, but "to make the lives of the people who I connect with, more rich for having me in it". or something like that anyway.
A very close friend of mine said I would likely hit SES within the next 5 years. On one level, I hoped he was right. From that position, I could do much good for the government, and the public to which it serves.
With that still playing on my mind, I went to the conference, and met an extrodinary person who also seemed to think I was also destined for more.
With these two key moments in time captured heavily in my heart, I thought deep and hard about what I was doing with my approach to getting more from what I have done. Successes, failures, or other.
Do i really want to be in the senior executive? is that going to make me come home and feel fulfilled? can I really change things from there?
No. No not really. Maybe, but not likely.
So my more tangible goal was to rethink my approach to helping / enrichening peoples lives.
- can I do this through improving the pathway which technology is developed, and how its managed?
- can I do this through mentoring key people in my life, by sharing everything openly and honestly with them?
- could I perhap make better use of this electronic connective tissue to expose what I know, and allow both myself and those around me to test what I know, collaboratively.
- Should I consider a pathway for myself that includes lecturing again?
- what were last weeks lotto numbers?
These things all mean something.
Up until now I've really only focussed on one person or small group of people at a time. I'm changing my goals. Changing them to refocuss myself more on my direct professional community, and benefiting it. Perhaps that's where I'm destined to make change. Perhaps that's how I can share what I've learned from my time at enterprise level.
This journey is there for me to take, I'll take it and see what it leads me to. My goals remain the same, just my path to getting there is different.
More on goal setting later I guess.
Thanks for reading,
Keep your users in mind.
