It was a busy 7 days with Monday through Friday equaling 15 hour days from 8 AM breakfast to the Hospitality suite after dinner until 11 PM. Some of the participants were up much later than 11 PM, but they are much younger than me. The course itself was lead by a former EST practitioner, who is now a business expert specializing in Leadership. Given his background, some of the content was pretty out there, but the basics were pretty good and the outcome for myself and for the other participants was pretty positive. We ended up by the end of the week in teams and each team has taken on a change initiative for the company that will make our company a better player in our Industry. Some of the initiatives are Bonuses for Non-Producers, working to get our company on the Fortune 100 Best Places to Work list by 2015, and developing a Corporate Recruiting team, among others. The team that I'm on is developing a template for a company-wide Employee development Plan that will be implemented for every employee of the company to include educational directives, sales and marketing and training.
Some of the principals that we explored during the week were affirmation for our teams and those we work with, complete listening (including turning off our inner voice when communicating with others), each person having three inner strengths that are developed in childhood, teenage years and adulthood (x, y and z), and the concept of our present actions being influenced by our future desires and not from our past actions. It was all pretty zen, but it made a lot of sense in the long term.
I finally got out of Detroit on Saturday at 1:30 and had a flight to Dallas at 3:15PM. I had only 45 minutes between flights and came in to Dallas at terminal D and my flight was Terminal A. Luckily, the flight was in twenty minutes early and I was able to grab a Subway before catching my plane. The guy working the counter at Subway was foreign and I ended up with a dry sandwich, because I couldn't understand what he was saying. Something about sauces, but I wanted mayo and mustard. He never understood me and it was a dry mess. The irritation to me was that the guy was middle eastern and probably Chechian and after what happened in Boston, I just didn't need the hassle.
I got home about 8 PM and my garment bag came through trashed. The latch on the bottom was broken and the zipper on the side was the only thing holding it together. I will be buying a new garment bag before the next trip.
Darla and I spent a nice day today with breakfast at the Original Pancake house in Roseville. We then stopped at the Used Bookstore in Roseville and loaded up on Stuart Wood's Stone Barrington novels and then headed home. I mowed and we both worked on the backyard, trimming and cleaning up in the flowerbeds and around the pool. We then relaxed in the sun with our books and Darla even ventured out onto the pool for awhile. the first time this year. It was 90 degrees today and supposed to be a small heatwave that runs through Wednesday.
I have not played golf in four weeks and will get back in the saddle on Thursday which is the start of our Summer long twilight league. I will try to get out and hit balls a couple of times between now and then. Sunday is the start of the 54 hole individual championship and I will play Sunday-Saturday and Sunday. This is the longest medal play tournament of the year and our championship for individual medal play. My game is iffy right now, but I'm hoping the layoff helped me lose some of the bad habits I had developed. I will work on the concepts that were shown to me when I had the lesson a month ago.
Well, short and sweet, but I have been in a conference since last Sunday and don't have much to report. I hope everyone is well. Be good. Ciao.
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